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.
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.
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.
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.
