Album Launch

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RAINBOW

I'm excited to announce that my new album, 'Rainbow' will be released on Orindal Records 15 January 2016 as clear vinyl LP, CD, and download. Here's the album art by Anna Fewster, with text by Thich Nhat Hanh

For pre-order and more info, click HERE

Here is a music-film by Benjamin Rowley for the first single 'As He Walked Into the Field'

Pictures: Bog Bodies residency at the Model, Sligo

Photos by Colm Condron

Thanks to everyone at the Model for all your help, and for the opportunity to work in your amazing space. 

More info about project at https://bogbodies2015.wordpress.com

Video- Bog Bodies at the Model

BOG BODIES

This month I'm getting ready for a residency at the Model Arts and Niland Gallery in Sligo, Ireland with a new project called BOG BODIES. 

Bog Bodies is a band including me (saxophone, electronics, tape loops) Sean Carpio (drums, guitar, voice, electronics), Anders Holst (guitar, electronics), and Benjamin Rowley (16mm film). 

Over the 10 days at the Model, we're going to be collaboratively developing a new work using music and 16mm film image and sound. We'll be sharing the results in a public performance on 15th July at the Model, as well as in installations and smaller performances around the gallery. 

We've been doing some preparatory work leading up to the residency, much of which we're collecting on a blog: https://bogbodies2015.wordpress.com/

Here's a 'taster' film we just finished using footage and recordings from a workshop we did back in December at Anselm Studio 1, Canterbury Christ Church University:

'Leap of Death' reviews

Here is a good review of 'LEAP OF DEATH' in this month's Uncut Magazine. 

What's more, it was also included in John Mulvey's 154 best records of 2014! (coming in at #71). 

"THE GREAT WORK"

After its premier at Brighton Cinecity Film Festival last month, I'm glad to be able to share 'THE GREAT WORK,' an animated short film by Borbonesa for which I created the title music and sound design.

Here it is, followed by some text I wrote for them about how it was made:



The Great Work from Borbonesa on Vimeo.

The soundtrack for the 7 sequences of 'THE GREAT WORK' were all produced from the same audio source material: an unlabelled cassette tape found in a charity shop in Margate, Kent. The tape features a long personal recording of conversation during a car journey, and on the B side, what sounds like an amateur radio show with excerpts of 'light' music and commentary. The sounds on the tape were sampled (converted to digital files) and edited, processed, and resequenced, and mixed to create the score. 

The title music is entitled 'The Great Work'. It was composed as a woodwind quintet with percussion and recorded using a multi-track ('sound-on-sound') process in which I played all the parts.