“Who lives here? And what are they doing, what makes them tick?
Who lives here? Or here? Or there? Or, who lives next door to you?

A man named Diego, calls me on the phone here in San Diego and says: ?”I want to get to know this person and this person and this person.

How can we do this?. What do we want to know?
Lets ask them some questions. Who are you? What’s the rhythm of your day? What year are you from? What’s your favorite sound?
Diego and his friends ask all these questions and they get answers, rich, lovely answers. So they send them back to me. Filtered, filtered, filtered.

What do I do with these things? Who are these people? Let’s make a song for them.”?

The Valley of the Dog Songs is a playful documentary about six young people between 18 and 25 years of age, living in Amsterdam, Jakarta, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima, all of whom want to make art. The film tells their stories and shows moments of their lives, interwoven with the life of Phil, a 37-year-old musician and elementary school teacher living in San Diego, USA,
who tries to write a song for each one of these young people: the melody of their lives.

The film talks about dreams, about fear, about love, about friendship, and pleads for making time to meet people.

This album includes a DVD and an audio CD featuring the film and the songs for the film.

DVD
length: 98 min
NTSC multiregion
language: Spanish and English
subtitles: Spanish and English
year: 2005

Audio CD
-Storyteller - for diego (The Valley of the Dog Songs) 5: 37
by Phil Beaumont . With Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie, Joe Plummer
-David - you have to live a life 2: 29
by Philip Beaumont
-Malena - love is gonna come 2: 57
by Philip Beaumont. With Eric Nielsen and Yuko
-Justinn - see the pretty lights 4: 47
by Philip Beaumont
-Ricardo - the soul of your hand 4: 15
by Philip Beaumont. With Eric Nielsen and J.Crane
-Ivan - your eyes are out there 8:45
by Philip Beaumont
-Pierr - tell me why you dance 4:47
by Philip Beaumont. With Pall Jenkins, Matt Resovich, Chris, and Pierr Padilla Vásquez
All songs recorded in El Salon de Luisa except for Pierr recorded at SDRL.
© beaumont 2004 © maquiladora 2004 © jenkins/beaumont 2004