2024
Signed copies of Hounds Of Love available from Rough Trade
02/11/24 14:31 Filed under: Writing
Not long to go now until this book is out in the world, argh!
Anyone interested in buying a signed copy can order one via this link from Rough Trade.
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Anyone interested in buying a signed copy can order one via this link from Rough Trade.
-----Apollo 13: Survival
15/09/24 14:39 Filed under: Work
I really enjoyed helping out with orchestrations on this amazing project, now streaming on Netflix. Apollo 13: Survival, directed by Peter Middleton and scored by James Spinney. Check it out!
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81444292
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https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81444292
-----The analogue music studio
27/06/24 14:51 Filed under: Academia
New academic publication - a chapter about teaching analogue recording in the 21st century, co-written with Isabella van Elferen.
Available now in:
Kardos, L. and van Elferen, I., 2024. The analogue music studio. Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education, p.42.
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Available now in:
Kardos, L. and van Elferen, I., 2024. The analogue music studio. Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education, p.42.
-----The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen by Gered Mankowitz
02/03/24 14:49 Filed under: Work
Lovely thing arrived with this morning’s post - a new book of Rare and Unseen photos of the Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz. My favourite part of the book is the ‘Stones at home’ chapter, Mick with his kitty, Keith sitting on a garden toilet with his pup, Charlie giving a good boy some pats. Oh, and I contributed an essay!
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-----Pre-order Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love (33 1/3 series)
25/02/24 13:49 Filed under: Writing
Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love publishes November 14, and is available for pre-order now.
Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into the realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds of Love’ and ‘The Big Sky’, some of the best loved and most enduring compositions in the Bush catalogue. On side B, a hallucinatory seven-part song cycle called The Ninth Wave broke away from the pop conventions of the era, with strange and vivid production techniques that plunge the listener into the psychological centre of a near-death experience. Poised and accessible, yet still experimental and complex, with Hounds Of Love Bush mastered the art of her studio-based songcraft, finally achieving full control of her creative process. When it came out in 1985, she was only 27 years old.
This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to the art and craft of Bush’s songwriting and sound design. It considers the vast impact and influence that Hounds Of Love has had on music cultures and creative practices through the years, underlining the artist’s importance as a barrier-smashing, template-defying, business-smart, record-breaking, never-compromising role model for artists everywhere.
Contents:
Track Listing
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The first woman
Still dreaming
I put this moment… here
Hounds Of Love
The Ninth Wave
A ritual in six steps
Before The Dawn
Blackbirds
Wave after wave
Notes
Selected Bibliography
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Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into the realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds of Love’ and ‘The Big Sky’, some of the best loved and most enduring compositions in the Bush catalogue. On side B, a hallucinatory seven-part song cycle called The Ninth Wave broke away from the pop conventions of the era, with strange and vivid production techniques that plunge the listener into the psychological centre of a near-death experience. Poised and accessible, yet still experimental and complex, with Hounds Of Love Bush mastered the art of her studio-based songcraft, finally achieving full control of her creative process. When it came out in 1985, she was only 27 years old.
This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to the art and craft of Bush’s songwriting and sound design. It considers the vast impact and influence that Hounds Of Love has had on music cultures and creative practices through the years, underlining the artist’s importance as a barrier-smashing, template-defying, business-smart, record-breaking, never-compromising role model for artists everywhere.
Contents:
Track Listing
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The first woman
Still dreaming
I put this moment… here
Hounds Of Love
The Ninth Wave
A ritual in six steps
Before The Dawn
Blackbirds
Wave after wave
Notes
Selected Bibliography
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Bigo & Twigetti label night with Curve Ensemble
10/02/24 13:46 Filed under: New Music
Feb 22 at the Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell, come along for a bewitching evening of new music for strings. Curve Ensemble will be performing a new piece by me(!*) alongside many of my excellent label mates at Bigo & Twigetti.
See you there?
*(Exclamation because this will be the first new music from me in aaaaaagesssss)
Update: thanks for everyone who came along. Here's a short excerpt of my piece, 'Pearly'
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See you there?
*(Exclamation because this will be the first new music from me in aaaaaagesssss)
Update: thanks for everyone who came along. Here's a short excerpt of my piece, 'Pearly'
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AlbumToAlbum podcast: The Next Day parts 3 & 4
Finally! The last two instalments covering David Bowie'sThe Next Day & The Next Day Extra, from a series of fun conversations I had with Arsalan Mohammad for the very excellent AlbumToAlbum podcast. What a journey, eh! He also asked me to whip up some opening and closing music for the pod, and I was very glad to oblige. Anyone who has now listened to all four of these certainly deserves a gold star.
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