To celebrate Piano Day 2021 I’ve released a special version of my track ‘The Warren’ for piano, performed by Katherine Tinker with flute by Helen Whitaker, bass clarinet by Emma Gatrill and trumpet and tenor horn by me.
You can listen on Spotify here.
Here’s the sheet music if you want to play along!
It was, of course, a terrible year for leaving the house. But I managed to contribute to the following records released in 2020, so in hindsight it doesn’t look too bad:
I’ve also already recorded contributions for upcoming releases by The Staves, John Smith, Villagers, Axel Flóvent, MF Tomlinson, Voka Gentle, Deep Throat Choir, Georgia Mooney, Rindert Lammers, Rich Fownes, Anna Westin, Ciaran Lavery, Bess Atwell, Kristin McClement, Emma Gatrill and more, all of which should be released during 2021.
In the words of the great David Thomas Broughton, onwards we trudge…
Very excited that this album has finally been announced. It was an absolute joy to join such talented musicians in the studio, including Etienne Jaumet, Liza Bec, Lascelle Gordon, Camilo Tirado, Tom Page and of course James Holden himself. The album is released on November 3rd via Border Community. I played cornet and will be joining the band for some live shows to be announced shortly.
My debut album has just been announced over at Willkommen Records. It’s released April 20th, 2015. You can stream a track from it below, preorder details etc. are all here.
I’ll be playing an album launch show on March 31st supporting the incredible Stara Rzeka at the Prince Albert. Tommy ‘Tubs’ Heather will be joining on the tubs. All the details are here.
Very, very proud to be a part of the new Hamilton Yarns album, The Orchard. They’re one of my favourite bands and have made loads of fantastic and unique records. I played a bit of synth and guitar. You can hear and buy it here.
I made a remix for Landshapes, it was mostly made in the back of a van on motorways which probably steered me in the krautrock direction.
This is just a quick update about a few things I’ve been working on recently, partly to remind myself:
Peggy Sue have announced that their new album Choir Of Echoes will be released on 27 January 2014 via Wichita Recordings and Yep Roc Records. The guardian have the exclusive first play and some nice words here.
I played various brass instruments on this one, the first single is up for free download or you can stream it above.
I did a remix of the song ‘If No One Else Saw It’ by one of my bands, Eyes & No Eyes. You can stream it from the player above, or download two original tracks and two remixes all for free over at bandcamp.
I played my last few festivals of the year with Willy Mason at the weekend (many more to come with other bands). It was an absolute joy playing with him (and bandmates Gardner Allen and Raymond Black). You can watch some highlights from our set at Latitude Festival over at BBC 6Music.
Also last week I played a BBC Radio 3 session playing guitar with Bella Hardy. You can listen to that here. I’ve now done sessions for BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6… any suggestions on how to get a Radio 5 Live session would be much appreciated!
I’ve been recording a lot with the Moulettes over the last few weeks, the final day of recording was yesterday and it’s been a lot of fun so thanks to them and to Joe Gibb.
Today I’m off to Church Road Recording Co to record some double bass for Fear of Men. Should be fun.