Composer & Guitarist
I have been playing bass with experimental/trip hop outfit Venusian for over 18 months now and last Friday we released out first album as our current set up (but the fourth under the Venusian name). 'Ancestor' dropped on Friday the 13th April - as seems befitting of an act so steeped in gloom and apocalyptic …
My new band Neverbody has just put our first EP on Bandcamp, it's 3 tracks of instrumental guitar music with leanings towards math rock, classic prog, and post-rock. Have a stream below and please consider downloading supporting us if you like what you hear! Recorded and mixed by yours truly, with much credit to Tom …
I'm back! Though in truth I've never really been away. It's just that proceedings have been disorderly over the past few months because I've had limited access to the internet (until now, hooray!) and that's mostly due to the process of moving house - an arduous affair that had me in limbo far longer than I expected. So here's …
New music in the form of live videos and an album, coming soon from my band Glossom! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkANCbJPHUI
I play the guitar in a 5 piece band called Glossom that recently went to Elevator Studios to record a live session on film. It was the second of two fairly long days over the weekend, but I found myself awake and feeling it was time to leave at 2:30am. We crammed into our sax player's car …
Continue reading "Glossom recording at Elevator Studios with Edwin Louis"
I took a very pleasant trip to Bury Art Museum on Thursday with a good friend of mine, where I performed Brébeuf once more - my live psaltery score to Stephen Broomer's short film for Video Jam. I'll admit that, when I first wrote the score, I felt strangely detached from it and took great …
Continue reading "Pure Psaltery / Video Jam @ Bury Art Museum / future projects"
Brébeuf and my live score for psaltery is going to be performed once more at Bury Art Gallery on 18th February! If you missed it at Manchester Jewish Museum in November last year then now is your chance to see it at this brilliant free live event. Video Jam will be bringing together some of their …
I have finally got round to recording my film score for Stephen Broomer's 'Brébeuf' which was commissioned by Video Jam and performed at Manchester Jewish Museum on the 12th November 2015. If you missed the performance, then now is your chance to hear what it sounded like - enjoy! You can read more about my …
After a successful day of performances on 14th November at The Walker Art Gallery, The Liverpool Players decided to take their production of Marie de France's Bisclavret one step further and put together an audio-only version of the play. After creating the music and sounds for the live show, I too had been thinking whether …
The Video Jam event at Manchester Jewish Museum draws closer. Next Thursday (12th) I will be joining Flamingods, Metaphysical Human, Layfullstop and the Sacred Sounds Women's Choir in performing a live score for a selection of short films and extracts, all focussing around a brief of faith and ritual. I've been assigned to write for Brébeuf …
Alex Cottrell 