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RADIOLAND – Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity Revisited: Album Release
December 1st, 2015At last, Radioland, the project with which I toured together with Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt earlier this year, is now available for download via Bandcamp – also made available via other digital music services on December 4th. In addition to the downloadable format, you can also pre-order the twenty-page hardback book CD and deluxe gatefold vinyl versions, which should be READ MORE
Fresh Yorkshire Aires – Notation
November 24th, 2015There have been some interesting submissions for The Fresh Yorkshire Aires project, curated by composer Jacob Thompson-Bell. There’s a little blog post I’ve written about playing from notation, along with a reminder that contributions are welcome – and there’s still plenty of time to submit your ideas for inclusion via the project website. Jacob and READ MORE
Fresh Yorkshire Aires
October 9th, 2015Fresh Yorkshire Aires is a brand new project collecting together graphic scores and visual representations of sound by artists and composers based in West Yorkshire. Devised by composer Jacob Thompson-Bell, it will involve work by the aforementioned; with myself, and fellow pianist Philip Thomas, interpreting the material in various live settings throughout the Yorkshire region. You can follow the READ MORE
Canals: The Making of a Nation
August 26th, 2015This Friday, the first episode in a new six-part series about the canals will begin on BBC1. Although it is not the first time I’ve worked on music for film and television, this is the first time that myself and fellow colleague, Sam Hobbs, have collaborated in a substantial BBC commission together – composing, performing, READ MORE
CAPSULE – concerts in Newcastle-Manchester-London
May 16th, 2015CAPSULE, is an intimate little chamber project featuring myself, Tam de Villiers (guitar) and Jean-Brice Godet (clarinets). We rehearsed together in Airedale and in Paris, wrote a few nice tunes, and now we’re going to play them in: May 17 The Bridge Newcastle 18 Cross Street Unitarian Chapel Manchester 20 The Vortex (Downstairs) London Come. Come see READ MORE
Impermanence Trio at Cheltenham Jazz Festival – TODAY
May 2nd, 2015TODAY, as part of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Impermanence Trio will play at Cheltenham Ladies College – but with a technological twist and some audience participation… Curious?! Read on… Impermanence Trio teamed up with Professor Jonty Stockdale of the University of West London last year, to conduct a series of recordings as part of Jonty’s research. We were duly fitted with bio-feedback READ MORE
Radioland in GLASGOW
April 18th, 2015For those of you who missed the Radioland tour last month, and fancy a trip to what is, arguably, one of the best cities on the planet; we’re playing another show at Platform Glasgow as part of the Outskirts Festival on Saturday April 25. We were lucky enough to have some favourable tour reviews from Vibrations, Jazzwise and The READ MORE
‘Radioland’ audio preview: TRANSISTOR & RADIOACTIVITY
February 25th, 2015Two preview tracks from the upcoming Radioland Tour have been uploaded onto the Sound UK Soundcloud page for you to enjoy: a Memorymoog/Minimoog duet of Transistor and the more beat-driven Radioactivity. You might like to compare them to the original versions… They’re from the rehearsal ‘showreel’ we’ve put together for the purposes of remembering the show(!), who does what, READ MORE
Radioland – Rehearsal Photo Blog
February 23rd, 2015New stuff on blog giving a little bit of insight into the rehearsal process ahead of the forthcoming Radioland tour in a few weeks. The blog features the excellent photography of Sarah Mason to whet your appetite for the shows and, especially for the geek inside of you (we’ve all got one), there’s a sneaky peek at some of the equipment READ MORE
On Tour: Radioland – Kraftwerk’s ‘Radio-Activity’ Revisited
February 16th, 2015Touring this March, a new project with fellow musician Franck Vigroux, and installation artist Antoine Schmitt; honouring the 40th anniversary of Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity album, by reworking the material, bringing our own sensibilities to bear on Kraftwerk’s aktivität. So, if you’d like to see/hear some classic tunes reworked, old-school analogue synthesisers, powerful sub-bass and stunning generative video, then do come READ MORE