Joby Burgess and Cambridge Music Festival are delighted to announce A Percussionist's Songbook: a collection of nine brand new ‘songs without words’ for pitched percussion and electronics, inspired by short stories, pop songs and folklore.
Watch Joby Burgess’ Powerplant perform a specially recorded online performance for Festivals Malta - The Three Palaces. Captured live at North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford in September 2020.
Julian Bliss and Joby Burgess combine forces during the 2020 UK lockdown, recording multiple layers of clarinet and percussion to create these exciting and dynamic new arrangements of much loved standards of the American Band Music world.
Joby Burgess is a recipient of the RPS Enterprise Fund at Trailblazer level - the award was made to exceptional candidates who already proved themselves to be remarkably inventive and entrepreneurial in lockdown.
This new recording for Signum Records includes silvery vibraphone with live looping, a quasi rock n roll documentary exploring censorship and a musical picture of the subtle shifts in our changing Seasons.
Alongside the release of ‘Pioneers of Percussion’ I have recorded a collection of conversations with the composers involved in the project and a selection of percussionists who have helped shape the percussion landscape.
This new recording for Signum Records includes ambient electronics fused with mellow vibraphone, explosive cinematic drumming and the delicate muted sounds of 1960’s New York.
Linda Buckley is an Irish composer who has written extensively for orchestra and has a particular interest in merging her classical training with the worlds of post punk, folk and ambient electronica.
