PHILIP CLEMO THE ROOMS YSANNE SPEVACK & PHILLIP CLEMO

Philip Clemo?s new album is a hypnotic journey into sonic space: through individual sound ?rooms? and into the places in between. It is also a journey of awakening. The album moves through moments of uncommon beauty, brooding reflection, intricate webs of textural complexity and atmospheric stillness. 22 individual musicians contributed to The Rooms, including B J Cole (pedal steel), Henry Lowther (flugelhorn and trumpet), Chloë Goodchild (voice), Theo Travis (saxophone and flute), Clive Bell (Asian flutes) and the Prague String quartet. Each performer?s contribution was recorded individually, edited heavily, and distilled down to the essence of that event. The sessions, recorded in Prague and the UK, were often long and intense, bringing out extraordinary qualities in the performances. The sessions were recorded by veteran sound engineer Phill Brown, who has worked with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Talk Talk and Dido amongst many others. Clemo sought out Brown since he felt he would understand the particular quality of sound he was after. Clemo and Brown chose studios very carefully and used vintage sound desks and valve microphones alongside the latest digital technology to carefully craft the exquisite sound of ?The Rooms?.

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Street Date: 3/24/09

ALL-CD-1 AR/$17.98 ROCK/POP 30 On the back of the considerable critical success of Philip Clemo? s 'The Rooms' (?mesmerising? ? The Times, ?beautiful, transcendent? indefinable? ? BBC Online) comes Soundzero, the second release from an earlier body of work by Philip Clemo and Ysanne Spevack. On this album Clemo and Spevack are joined by an outstanding group of musicians including Cleveland Watkiss (voice), Pete Lockett (percussion) and Mark Sanders (drums), who?s joint lineage extends to work with Björk, David Sylvian, Bill Laswell, Courtney Pine, The London Philharmonic and many others. This great ensemble is continually on the move, developing new and inspiring multi-layered musical dialogues as the soundzero journey develops. ?Incredibly beautiful?well off the beaten track. Truly hypnotizing.? - XLR8R magazine, USA. CER-CD-1 AR/$17.98 ROCK/POP 30

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