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My piano on Wave after Wave Wave after Wave was an incredible experience. It's story is quite a remarkable set of coincidences and synchronicity. One day I was sat by the ocean here in Cornwall, feeling quite bruised by the past year, and I had just posted up the experimental jazz track, inspired by Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk, Lilith. My phone pinged to tell me something, which I ignored. A few days later, I looked...
The reception to the collaboration has been exceptional, and without exception, positive. When I first heard about the project, I was worried that people might think it's some sort of attempt at a continuation, (it is resolutely not and it being an instrumental work is totally intentional). I could see what was being done was something totally different. Something other, inspired by that first emergent post rock sound. What it is is a group of...
One of the amazing outcomes of David Joseph's project was just how kind, open minded and generous the people involved are. They all clearly want to help people coming up in the music world and have spent untold hours giving advice, opinions, guidance and passing on a lifetime of knowledge. Bearing in mind Phill Brown is actually a legendary producer, having worked with, among other people, Led Zeppelin and of course Talk Talk and Mark's final...
The track Pale was conceived as an exorcism of sorts, having found myself in a dark place and needing to rid myself of the intrusive thoughts that were haunting me. I thought an exorcism was needed. Not knowing any friendly vicars at the time, and it being illegal to go outdoors at the time, I decided to do it myself, using music. It was written around the core of a dead song, one that had, like some ancient failed star, gone supernova and all...
Moments of Pleasure and JoyAs in introduction to the work of Sara Baggini, this may be the perfect place from which to dip into and observe it's modest and understated genius. A bond-esque theme of sublime darkness that echo her childhood spent in mountains and isolation, Moments of Pleasure and Joy sounds like is was born from the 1960's filmic school of John Barry, somehow expertly married with sublime Italian home market scores absorbed...