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Here’s another track from The new album I wrote with Evelyn Glennie – it’s called ice drive and features some insanely good toy piano playing!!
Ice Drive
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The Flaw
Tonight sees the premiere on More 4 of David Sington’s excellent documentary about the credit crisis in the US called ‘The Flaw’. This is the trailer. I was commissioned to write a cartoon-like score for the film – quite a different mode from my normal style of music…
The Denali Experiment – North Face
Here’s a stunning video made by my friends at North Face about their Denali Expedition. The camerawork is simply stunning…
The track is called ‘Night Vision’ and is from my Cloud Songs album.
Skysong
Whilst everyone’s looking skywards for stray fireworks… (it’s Guy Fawkes night tonight!) here’s a little piece I wrote for Inside the Milky Way. It’s called skysong. If you like it – you can download it by clicking the arrow on the right!
The amazing violin solo is my friend David Le Page. Total genius musician…
Lots of you have been writing in about my soundtracks to Moon Machines and the score to Inside the Milky Way. I really enjoyed writing the music for those shows and if enough of you want it… I’ll get a digital release underway. Let me know though…
Please share this if you like it or look at my other albums on Bandcamp & iTunes!
Thanks… Philip
Philip Sheppard 4/11/2011
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Not So Silent Movies!
I’m hugely excited to announce the launch of Not so Silent Movies…
This monthly event takes place at the wonderful Kings Place in London. First gig is Sunday October 2nd at 3pm. Tickets from here.
The photo of Harold Lloyd is appropriate, as what we’re going to be doing is risky, thrilling and often hilarious.
Here’s the pitch:
- Great silent film comedies,
- Great musicians together on stage,
- No sheet music,
- No rehearsing,
- No plan,
- & No watching the films in advance…
Yes… it’s totally improvised (spontaneously composed if you want to be pretentious..!), utterly great when it all clicks, and unintentionally hilarious when it goes awry.
Our band is amazing… we have Guy Pratt on Bass (he’s been in Pink Floyd & Roxy Music for starters), Geoff Dugmore’s playing drums (He’s an incredible drummer – one of the greatest session players in the world), Pip Eastop on Horn (he’s a stalwart of the London Sinfonietta, a Professor, stunning soloist and one of the wittiest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing), Elspeth Hanson (violinist currently wowing audiences in Bond, was also glimpsed by about two billion people on a bus with David Beckham & Jimmy Page), Mark Neary (Pedal steel player and alchemist of weird and wondrous noises – last time I saw him he was laying down some lines for Flood!), Me (I play the cello a bit), and some amazing surprise guests too (not Jimmy Page… yet… but we’re working on it! see photo).
Geoff Dugmore, Jimmy Page, Me & Guy Pratt at a recording session
Future Not so Silent Movies are featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie (world famous percussion soloist), Robin Millar (Sade’s producer), Steve Mackey (Pulp’s bassist), Julia Thornton (wizard harpist & percussionist), Pete Furniss (Reeds – a mainstay of the extraordinary Impropera), Roger Eno (maverick keyboardist), Stephen Warbeck (composer, Oscar winner), Cherisse Osei (Mika’s drummer), David Le Page (former Menuhin pupil, Subway Pirhanas, Orchestra of the Swan) and many, many more…
You can probably tell I’m a bit excited about this…
Come and join us for the greatest comedies ever made – (featuring Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Joe Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle & co), and to see a group of musos having a busman’s holiday. We may even get you up on stage to take part!
Let me know who else we should invite, and which films you’d like to see us tackle!
Philip
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Open sky open mind
There are few places in the world more beautiful than Cornwall, early in the morning, far out at sea…
Simply Strings – new album
Here’s a new album I’ve just recorded for Universal, produced by Roberto Borzoni.
The players are:
Violin I: Janice Graham, Magnus Johnston, Annabelle Meare, Kathy Gowers, Marije Ploemacher
Violin Ii: Thomas Kemp,helen Paterson, Fiona Mcnaught, Maya Bickel
Viola: Garfield Jackson, Timothy Grant, Paul Cassidy
Cello: William Schofield, Zoe Martlew, Jacqueline Thomas
Double Bass: Luis Cabrera
Violin Ii: Thomas Kemp,helen Paterson, Fiona Mcnaught, Maya Bickel
Viola: Garfield Jackson, Timothy Grant, Paul Cassidy
Cello: William Schofield, Zoe Martlew, Jacqueline Thomas
Double Bass: Luis Cabrera
Solo Cello & Electric Cello: Philip Sheppard
Hope you like it…!
Bobby Fischer soundtrack released
Cover art by Josh Sommers
This is the soundtrack to Liz Garbus’ celebrated film about the life of troubled chess genius Bobby Fischer, ‘Bobby Fischer Against the World’.
I wrote the score around themes by Bach keyboard works. You can sample the full album here. Thanks for listening,
Philip Sheppard
100000 plays!
I just looked on Soundcloud to see that I’ve had quite a few plays recently. The track I wrote for the Launch sequence of In the Shadow of the Moon has had 100,000 plays! Thanks everyone…
Olympic Anthems, an endurance race
With the LPO in Abbey Road
Today is the last day of mixing all 205 of the Olympic Anthems for the London 2012 Games.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra are incredible, and having spent 50 hours locked away with them in Studio 2 at Abbey Road, we all know one another that bit better, and I’m totally in love with their sound. If you want proof of how good they are, just listen to some of their live recordings on their own label.
We’ve gone from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe via the Faroes and Tajikistan, and it’s been something I’m not going to forget in a hurry. Jake Jackson, my rather extraordinary producer, had the bright idea of keeping a record of what we’d done on a wallchart… Dr Strangelove would approve…
Jake's map!
The press attention’s been odd and an interesting element to deal with, some of the papers were looking for an angle – eg, ‘what’s the worst anthem?’, ‘What could go horribly wrong?’, and ‘Why do you look like Nick Clegg?’. For the record, I DO NOT LOOK LIKE NICK CLEGG. At all. Really.
A top class athlete with a chap in a suit (me)
On our last day we asked Jonathan Edwards – the world’s favourite triple jumper – to come and join us for the recording of God save the Queen. You’ll have to watch this space to see if he made it onto the final cut of the recording… all I’ll say is that it was the loudest note we recorded across all 974 takes!
Just to show what a good setup we have here at Air Studios.. here’s a snapshot for you:
The mix setup...
Note; a very busy Jake Jackson (two keyboards at the same time a la Rick Wakeman), our spreadsheet of anthems projected, too many apple computers, live streamed football match (ahem)…
