The Grass Grows Green
-Directed by Jesus Beltran
-Original Score by This Alibi

Official Selection of...
2007 Sundance Film Festival
2007 SESAME Film Festival
2007 Omaha Film Festival
2007 South by Southwest Film Festival

2007 AFI Dallas International Film Festival
2007 Alanta Black Independent Film Festival
2007 Memphis International Film Festival
2007 Independent Black Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
2007 Small Potato Short Film Festival (Idaho)
2007 Nashville Film Festival
2007 Denver XicanIndie Film Fest
2007 Cine Las Americas Film Festival (Austin, TX)
2007 California Independent Film Festival
2007 Santa Cruz Film Festival
2007 Campecine Film Festival (San Jose, CA)
2007 Declaration Film Festival (London)
2007 Hollywood Black Film Festival
2007 Long Island International Film Expo
2007 NY Latino International Film Festival
2007 LA Biblioteca Latino Americana – Campecine (San Jose)
2007 Curzon Renior Cinema – Declaration Film Festival (London)
2007 Music Hall 3 Laemmle Theatre Hollywood Black Film Festival (Beverly Hills,CA)
2007 Bellmore Movies – 2007 Long Island International Film Expo

Others TBA Soon!!

As you may know, This Alibi has recently written and recorded the soundtrack to The Grass Grows Green. Released today, The Sundance Film Festival has chosen The Grass Grows Green as one of the 80 films out of 4,800 to be a part of the festival. This is a huge break for This Alibi and we are glad to be able to share this news with you. We will keep you updated from Park City, Utah.

P.S. - Hope to see you all @ The Hurricane New Years Eve.

Sundance Film Festival


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This Alibi pulled a eleven hour session Last night (Nov.22nd) @ Westend Studio with Paul Malinowski to complete the soundtrack for "The Grass Grows Green". Jesus "Chin" Beltran (Writer/Director) flew in from San Jose to help Conduct. The session went very well, and we and Chin are very pleased. We will let you know the outcome when we hear from Sundance Film Festival.
Thanks,TA

This Alibi has recently recorded the soundtrack to "The Grass Grows Green" for Sundance Film Festival. A film written and directed by Jesus "Chin" Beltran. The Grass Grows Green is a story of one Marine's complicated relationship with life and death - from behind the recruiting office desk. The film explores the internal struggle of a man bound by honor and duty to recruit the best and the brightest for an uncertain future away from the familiar violence of the 'hood. For more info on this amazing film clik the following link. Thanks>TA

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Near the close of This Alibi's otherwise instrumental debut disc, a man intones, When it all goes dark, all you have left is what you can hear. You have to trust in that. It's an apt epigram for a disorienting listening experience. This immersing EP's impact dwarfs its 25-minute duration. After an ambient introductory track, This Alibi unravels a thick bass line, adding a few measured percussive taps and hovering guitar notes. This song, "In Vast Direction," seems extinguished after a drum flourish at the 1:30 mark, but it revives with thunderous rhythms and roaring prog-metal riffs. The trio repeats the soft-loud dynamic cycle several times, with guitarist Bob Bitner filling the serene passages with spacey experimentation. After the human voice finally makes its portentous appearance, This Alibi erupts with 30 seconds of robust noise, then ends in an ethereal haze, as if someone snapped his fingers to break the spell. See it all come alive at the Record Bar on Friday, August 18, when This Alibi plays with Vedera and the Life and Times.

What does it take to make an instrumental band interesting? Is it range? Complexity? Unpredictability, competence or drive? This Alibi covers all of the bases on their self-titled debut, and while they remain largely undiscovered outside of the Kansas City area, their attention to detail is almost certain to get the crowds talking. Making their way out of minds and into homes in thanks to Paul Malinowski (Shiner), the band is counting on their initial recording to make an impression rest assured, This Alibi has something intriguing to offer.

The opener to this EP ("Introduction") brings a perfectly amorphous feeling of floating, uncertainty and attainable peace, and just visions of Sigur Ros dance in your head when pondering the EPs cover, riled guitars infiltrate the calm and break concentration. There is human drama here intrigue without words. As soon as you believe you have the band pinned down, they change movements to push in infinite new directions.

A low patter moves to ominous, slow withdrawal, picking up on a downbeat on "In Vast Direction". The broken spirited retreat becomes familiar with acceptance, but moves stingingly to furious retread. Its unrest is uncontainable. Featuring the first blaze of rock guitars, it proclaims strident freedom and a reality among the ghosts. While the track lapses into illness from time to time, it continues like rolling waves: resolute yet retiring. "In Vast Direction" washes over powerfully, immersing the senses and making it impossible to stray. It is our first true glimpse at the bands magnetic potency.

The beautiful, shy plucking and shapeless demureness of "Lithographers Curse Principum" is reminiscent of Tortoise, but as it moves to regal repose and paints a painstakingly detailed façade, it claims territory on its own. Shimmering drums underline conflict aside from the pristine, rehearsed exterior.

"Lithographers Curse Fatalis" features the flickering glow of an uncertain fate; it feels foreboding but live-giving. The track moves to a din of steadily treading guitars, like a dissonant mire to wade through before reaching rebellious victory. Shunting, incessant layers compound fervently, throttling and chugging in hard-wrought glory. "Fatalis" drives "Principum" in to the ground and hints at the spectacle of This Alibis live show; the pairing of these two tracks will undoubtedly draw the masses out to witness in person.

A work of interesting contrasts, the closer, "Ask the Dust", symbolizes the albums vision as a whole: it resides tentatively between peace and the absence of peace. Its spacey spookiness and thunderous clatter collide with bare moments of tranquility. The oases are most needed and unexpected, bringing the EP to its point: it could be one long battle without end, and likewise, one extended song without resolution. In total, it chronicles a great, unabated struggle; its repetition, uncertain momentum, and self-cleansing motions connote endlessness. The result shows This Alibis keenness, as there is no need for an end; for the band and their unique perspective, this is only the beginning...

Reviewed by Sarah Peters

http://lostatsea.net/review.phtml?id=2063321789445626de3440d

Due to the limitions of Myspace, we were unable to put the full version of In Vast Direction on our page.Please visit our site www.ThisAlibi.com to hear.

Thanks>TA