Jordan Galland is an American filmmaker and musician based in New York City. Fall and operates Slush Puppy Music, a record label, as well as his own film production company, Ravenous Films.
At eighteen, Galland formed the rock band Dopo Yume. Dopo Yume also played shows with musical group Phantom Planet, both contributed musical selections to the popular show The O.C.. California, and Dopo Yume's contribution The Secret Show. A later band, Domino, is signed to Mark Ronson's Allido Records label. Additionally, Galland has collaborated with his childhood friend, Sean Lennon, played electric piano on Mark Ronson's album Version and co-wrote tracks on Daniel Merriweather's 2010 Love & War, also released on Allido Records. In 2006, Jordan Galland began working on a series of solo material with friends and former band-mates David Muller and Sam Oates for what would ultimately become his solo-debut, "Airbrush." In 2008, Galland and Muller continued to build on the solo-material and co-produced Jordan Galland's sophomore solo release, "Search Party." The album was recorded in Hampton Bays, New York, and mixed by Ron Shaffer at Atlantic West Studios in Brooklyn. Galland collaborated with Mark Ronson on a video homage to The Legend of Zelda. Galland provided the music for director Sara Ziffs award-winning film Picture Me. She had appeared in an earlier music video of Gallands' "The Princess Waits" In 2011, Galland released an EP via his record label Slush Puppy Music, titled To The Top. The music video for the EP's title track appeared on Glamour.com and AOL's music website, Spinner.com as the Music Video of the Day on May 31, 2011. Galland did a cover version of "birthday cake" by Cibo Matto
Film career
Galland has contributed to a wide spectrum of movies, ranging from romantic comedy to the genre of Horror film, and Zombie comedy. Galland's 2005 short film, Smile for the Camera, received an award for best screencraft at the New York Independent International Film and Video Festival in 2005. Galland directed, photographed, and edited the film himself, and wrote the film's theme song and musical score with Sean Lennon and Timo Ellis. An animated music video for his band Domino, Green Umbrella, was shown at multiple film festivals in the U.S., and in Madrid at Alcine37. Galland has been working on a screen adaptation of Ryu Murakami's Coin Locker Babies, since 1998, in collaboration with Michele Civetta, Peter Kline, and Sean Lennon. Galland's feature-length debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, a vampire film he wrote and directed, was filmed in New York City in December 2007 and stars Ralph Machio, Jeremy Sisto, and Jake Hoffman. A 2009 Halloween launch party was held at Wooleys in New York. The movie is set to be released in June 2010 through Indican Pictures. This movie is currently playing on Showtime Alter Egos a movie about super heroes is set to be released in Fall of 2012. It stars Kris Lemche, Danny Masterson, and again involves a collaboration with Sean Lennon who both stars in as "Electric Death" and contributes the music. Galland has music contributions in two entries in Tribeca Film Festival 2012; the movie Supporting Characters and also Krysten Ritter's movie, L!fe Happens. Jordan contributed a song "Hearts of ice" to the film Life of Crime
Filmography
Discography
Solo discography
Airbrush
Search Party
To the Top
Wind-up Rabbit
With Dopo Yume
Yumania
In the Bedroom
True Romance
The Secret Show
Other
Animation
Galland has done all the animation work in his movies, having studied animation at New York University. In addition he contributed animation in the promotional posters for Plastic Ono Band.
Galland recently did the animation for the Jewellery ad campaign "you're my Boo" for Waris Ahluwalia's House of Waris.
Philanthropy
Galland's band Dopo Yume contributed a song to a cd:Mystique, "a Benefit for the AIDS Action."
Galland's other band Domino had a listing on Mark Ronson Presents Hard Rock, which was distributed exclusively through the Hard Rock Cafe where a portion of the proceeds go to the non profit organization: Play Pumps, that helps to provide clean drinking water to third world countries.
Galland has contributed music to countless Charity Art shows, including shows that benefit the Nest Foundation, which aids abused children in New York.
Awards and nominations
Green Umbrella — Best Musical Form, 2006 Da Vinci Film and Video Festival