CHRISTOPHER KENJI LIVE AT PICCOLO PAVILION AT MENKE PARK

NEVER ENOUGH OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

"NEVER ENOUGH" MUSIC VIDEO CREDITS

Production Team: Trickshot Productions

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Director: Guillermo Arcaya

Producer: Carla Carolina Pimentel

Executive Producers: Alexander Proctor, Christopher Kenji, Guillermo Arcaya

Director of Photography: Joey Zhao

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Actors: Christopher Kenji, Isabella Colffer, Alex Coltharp, Teddy Softcheck

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Editor & Motion Graphics: Sheila Da Silva

Colorist: Sarah London

Video Effects: David Leon

Sound Designer: Jose Luis Ramos

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1st Assistant Camera: Yuqiao Han

2nd Assistant Camera: Li Ka Wing

Steadicam Operator: Chen Yuan

Gaffer: Joey Zhao

Drone Operator: Yuqiao Han

Key Grip: Jacob Chung

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Makeup Artist/Hair Stylist: Aksorn Hoshino

Wardrobe Stylist: Jamie Xiong

Production Assistant & BTS: Chawin P. Terk

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Set Facilitator: Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

"NEVER ENOUGH" MUSIC CREDITS

Songwriter/Vocalist/Instrumentalist: Christopher Kenji

Producer/Arranger/Mix Engineer: Christopher Kenji

Mastering Engineer: Andres Mayo at Andres Mayo Mastering in Austin, TX.

Guitar Overdub Assistant: Milo Horstman

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Special Thanks: Anthony Young

CHRISTOPHER KENJI LIVE AT MILK BAR 

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LIVE FROM THE SEATTLE ESPORTS STUDIO

Click the video above to see to the pro-shot footage of Christopher Kenji performing "One-Way Mirror" live at the Seattle Esports Studio in Seattle, Washington on May 8th, 2021.

Christopher Kenji wrote “Summer Fog” in 2014 in his Berklee College of Music dorm room and considers it “the first song he ever wrote that he didn’t hate”. The song was inspired by Kenji parting ways with his hometown near San Francisco, California for the first time to live in Boston, where he would spend the next four years of his life. “Summer Fog’s” lyrics are written in Kenji’s perspective reflecting on his move from months before ––him knowing that everything in his life at that point was about to change and that he was going to be a different person when he came back home but also knowing that it was necessary for him to begin his journey in finding himself. The song serves as a final goodbye letter to his hometown and the child inside of him that grew up in it.

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He submitted “Summer Fog” to the 2014 international NewSong Music Competition and was selected as a Top 10 West Coast Songwriting Finalist. For qualifying into the final round of the competition, which would be held at Lincoln Center in New York City, Kenji had the option to either continue using “Summer Fog” or to choose a different song of his to compete with. Kenji chose to go with a different song of his and, unfortunately, did not end up placing into the final round. The first initial recording session for “Summer Fog” took place in his former Berklee professor, Dan Cantor’s Notable Studios in Watertown, Massachusetts in 2015. They tracked the song at Notable Studios initially with a whole band but Kenji ended up re-recording the drums and bass himself years later. The main guitar part was recorded using Notable’s rare, vintage 1928 Gibson acoustic guitar which was played by Kenji. While struggling to graduate and him deciding to take on different projects, Kenji lost motivation and put “Summer Fog” on the shelf for four whole years.

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In 2019, Trickshot Productions came to Kenji with a music video proposal and Kenji suggested using “Summer Fog” and played them the demo version of the song recorded from years before. Upon presenting the “Summer Fog” demo and discussing the backstory of the song, director Guillermo Arcaya took the concept, and months later, came back to Kenji with a script, storyboard and game plan for the music video which included multiple storylines, actor casting calls and shoot locations. In each of the different storylines Arcaya wrote, each character faces a difficult situation and comes out a stronger person symbolizing the moral theme reflected in Kenji’s lyrics. The music video was shot using an Arri Alexa camera/over $100k worth of equipment total. For “Summer Fog’s” wardrobe, Kenji contacted award-winning fashion designer William Lei and San Francisco’s renown West Coast Leather to sponsor him with a few outfits to wear in the music video in combination with some of his own.

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After seven years of working on the song, Kenji finally sent “Summer Fog” off to be mastered by his go-to mastering engineer Brian Iele at Santa Cecilia Sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For “Summer Fog’s” cover artwork, Kenji decided to use a still image from the drone footage in the dock scene of the music video taken by Dylan Van Buren and created the graphic design on top of it. The song was successfully released to all streaming platforms on March 26th, 2021 and received over 30,000 Spotify streams during its first four weeks. The “Summer Fog” Official Music video is now available as of April 30th, 2021.