Benbecula Records
Scotland, 1999-2009
Electronica, ambient, electro,
folk, post-rock ... blah
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MINERALS SERIES
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Layton & Wood "Sfumato" Benbecula Records, 2009 (BEN548) CD Album Minerals Series - Limited Release date: 02 March 2009 BUY THIS RELEASE Track Listing 1. Plateau 2. Dark Summer 4 3. Mezmer 4. Departure 5. Movement 3 6. Sfumato Influenced by his music lecturer and jazz pianist father, John Layton developed an early interest in experimental and left-field music…beginning with the concrete music movement, moving quickly through the early progressive music scene, towards non-western musical forms, free jazz, ambient music, and then to the work of contemporary orchestral and choral composers, particularly Britten, Ligeti, Part, Messaien. He started playing bass in his early teens, and also experimented with the sound-on-sound facility on a faulty old tape recorder, making many recordings using a miscellany of objects to create musical and non-musical sounds with. Since the late seventies he has been in demand as a bass player, exploring many musical genres, including a 10 year spell with Christopher Wood in the Leeds-based 58 Piece Orchestra in the eighties and nineties, and several stints in recording studios. Over the last two years he has returned to more experimental methods of music making and sound creation, working closely once again with Wood, exploring the sonic possibilities offered by digital sound processing and recording equipment. Christopher Wood is a guitarist, composer, writer, and has a reputation as one of the UK most original and individual painters. He has shown extensively in London and abroad where his work is held in numerous private, commercial and public collections. A new book about his painting, written by Lynne Green and published by the Greendrake Press will be available in 2010. Paralleling his career as an artist has been an ongoing exploration of musical language and an ambition to make sound compositions, which are the direct equivalent of his paintings. He was the founding member of Leeds based 58 Piece Orchestra and worked under that name for several years making many recordings and playing too many gigs!. His ambient electronic pieces are inspired by composers like Messiaen, and Takamitsu, guitarists John Abbercrombie and Bill Frisell and bands like Locsil and The Stars of the Lid. Woods compositions combine an imaginative, lyrical and poetic musical sensitivity with a painter’s love of abstraction, gesture and ambiguity. Resources Christopher P Wood Last FM |
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