Philip Sheppard

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  • Somewhere Along The Edge- track by track – part one

    Somewhere Along The Edge- track by track – part one

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    This is a track from my new album – Somewhere Along The Edge. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in September 2016 and is my first studio album away from a specific movies soundtrack for some time.
    Each track is dedicated to someone who lives fully at the edge of life— whether explorers, artists, travellers, thinkers…
    This is dedicated to the amazing artist, technologist, fellow cellist, drone pilot, underwater photographer and more importantly, great friend, Eric Cheng.
    His photography is exquisite – echengphoto.com/index

    If you would like a free review copy then please comment below and I’ll send you a code by return.

    Philip Sheppard October 2016

    Somewhere Along The Edge on iTunes
    https://exit.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitun.es%2Fus%2F1S4Teb
    Somewhere Along The Edge on Bandcamp
    http://philipsheppard.bandcamp.com/…/somewhere-along-the-ed…
    Somewhere Along The Edge On Spotify

  • Crazy Gnarls Barkley Cover for Looped Cello

    Crazy Gnarls Barkley Cover for Looped Cello

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    Here’s a cover of ‘Crazy’ by Gnarls Barkley that I performed recently at the COP21 Summit in Paris. Just recorded this to get warmed up for a busy set of film sessions.

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  • Philip Sheppard live at Abbey Road

    Philip Sheppard live at Abbey Road

    Philip Shepard at C2MTL - Photo by Jimmy Hamelin
    Philip Sheppard at C2MTL – Photo by Jimmy Hamelin

    Here’s what I did after a long day of recording in Abbey Road one night last week. I’d been conducting the orchestra all day, and my brain was in another place.

    I was speaking a language far from English, and things were swimming in front of my eyes. Rather than start heading home, I decided to decompress a bit.

    There’s a deeply unusual documentary I’m writing at the moment, so I put the film on, Gordon, my fantastic engineer set everything to record and I got ready to play along. In the end, I ended up doing a 59 minute solo take on my cello – which is something of a record for me… It was a bit surprising seeing as my arms were really aching from conducting all day.

    Anyway, here’s the result. (Don’t worry, it’s not 59 minutes).

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  • Hallelujah at C2MTL

    Hallelujah at C2MTL

    Here’s a version of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen that I played at C2MTL at the end of my talk there. I hope you like it.

    The full talk is here

  • Meltdown Philip Sheppard live at the Royal Festival Hall pt2

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    gearHere’s the bizarre gear that goes into my gig bag along with the cello.