Posts by Paul Dougherty

Simon Armitage, UK's poet laureate, forms post-rock band LYR

February 10, 2020

Genre-blending post-rock supergroup LYR is comprised of current UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician Richard Walters, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson. Having signed an exclusive record deal with Mercury KX, the band have released their debut single, ‘Never Good With Horses’, accompanied by a cinematic music video directed by Australian Matthew Thorne. Thorne recently […]

Joep Beving – 'Klangfall' – live in Amsterdam

February 4, 2020

Watch Dutch neo-classical pianist and composer Joep Beving in this scintillation live performance from Amsterdam’s Contergebouw. “Klangfall” is a work from Joep Beving’s 2019 album Henosis. On this album, Joep explores a richer, more textured soundworld through the use of modular synthesisers, strings, and chamber choir. Joep describers the album as ” an album about […]

Luke Howard soundtrack released on vinyl

January 14, 2020

Melbourne-based composer and pianist Luke Howard has announced the release of his acclaimed soundtrack to short film The Sand That Ate The Sea on vinyl. Artist royalties from sales of the vinyl have been donated in advance to the Australian Red Cross. Limited to 500 copies, the soundtrack album comes in a frosted clear vinyl […]

Matthias & Maxime Soundtrack By Jean-Michel Blais

October 29, 2019

French-Canadian composer and pianist Jean-Michel Blais has scored the soundtrack to celebrated Canadian director Xavier Dolan’s film, ‘Matthias & Maxime’. The music for the ‘Matthias & Maxime’ Official Soundtrack was developed in close collaboration between Blais and Dolan in the studio, using techniques derived from improvisation, with the music of Franz Schubert serving as a […]