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We meet the latest set of songwriters and composers to sign up with PRS for Music over the last three months...
After almost two fractured decades, former Dream City Film Club partners Michael J Sheehy and Alex Vald have chosen 2015 as the year to re-enter the musical world, this time as United Sounds of Joy.
Their previous outfit was a cult act that signed to Beggar’s Banquet, released one LP and recorded two Peel sessions before Alex was kicked out. The club opened their creative doors at the fag-end of Britpop but drew on a richer, more psychedelic seam than many of their contemporaries before imploding in disarray.
Although keen to not bill this latest coupling as ‘a reunion’, the duo are crossing swords once again over a melting pot of weird, dark musical touch points. They’re supposedly inspired by ‘acid drenched spaghetti westerns, post-apocalyptic sci-fi, recreational drug use in the nineties, and assorted mystics, murderers and madmen’.
With such a disparate palette to draw on, the first taste - The Sun That Hides A Darker Star - is a shimmering, gothic slice of noir pop. Pin back those ears for a 2016 debut album. They’re promising it will be a record of ‘lounge music for a dystopian future’.
unitedsoundsofjoy.co.uk
Their previous outfit was a cult act that signed to Beggar’s Banquet, released one LP and recorded two Peel sessions before Alex was kicked out. The club opened their creative doors at the fag-end of Britpop but drew on a richer, more psychedelic seam than many of their contemporaries before imploding in disarray.
Although keen to not bill this latest coupling as ‘a reunion’, the duo are crossing swords once again over a melting pot of weird, dark musical touch points. They’re supposedly inspired by ‘acid drenched spaghetti westerns, post-apocalyptic sci-fi, recreational drug use in the nineties, and assorted mystics, murderers and madmen’.
With such a disparate palette to draw on, the first taste - The Sun That Hides A Darker Star - is a shimmering, gothic slice of noir pop. Pin back those ears for a 2016 debut album. They’re promising it will be a record of ‘lounge music for a dystopian future’.
unitedsoundsofjoy.co.uk
Glowing Palms
If you explore the deep, shadowy parts of the UK’s electronic underground, you’ll find the squelchy reverberations of mysterious London DJ and producer Glowing Palms. Most clubs go boom after dark but Palms preferas to light up the dancefloor with florid tropical auras via his own productions and re-edits.
Now signed to Ruf Dug’s RüF KUTZ label, he’s stayed hectic over the last 12 months with releases, Resonance FM radio shows and guest slots at clubs all tuned into a sound he describes as ‘disco heat, boogie claps and raw synthesiser power’.
It was the release of his cover of former dubstep don Skream’s Midnight Request Line which gained him BBC Radio 1 airplay while he also made headlines by DJing at an East London after-party for punters including Beyonce and Jay Z. His forthcoming releases are making their way through the pressing plant as we speak…
glowingpalms.com
If you explore the deep, shadowy parts of the UK’s electronic underground, you’ll find the squelchy reverberations of mysterious London DJ and producer Glowing Palms. Most clubs go boom after dark but Palms preferas to light up the dancefloor with florid tropical auras via his own productions and re-edits.
Now signed to Ruf Dug’s RüF KUTZ label, he’s stayed hectic over the last 12 months with releases, Resonance FM radio shows and guest slots at clubs all tuned into a sound he describes as ‘disco heat, boogie claps and raw synthesiser power’.
It was the release of his cover of former dubstep don Skream’s Midnight Request Line which gained him BBC Radio 1 airplay while he also made headlines by DJing at an East London after-party for punters including Beyonce and Jay Z. His forthcoming releases are making their way through the pressing plant as we speak…
glowingpalms.com
Ajay-Atul
Brothers Ajay and Atul Gogavale are two of Bollywood’s most successful composers, marrying the traditional music of their homeland with contemporary styles to mesmerising effect.
Born in Mumbai and brought up in several villages in Western Maharashtra, the pair had no formal musical training, instead cutting their teeth arranging works with local acts. They went on to throw themselves into the world of Bollywood feature films, becoming two of the most in-demand musical writers and directors in the Marathi film industry.
A long list of accolades from their career includes winning the Best Music Direction prize at the National Film Awards for their work on Jogwa and composing India’s theme music at Hannover Messe, the world’s biggest industrial fair, on the personal invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The latest work for Bollywood’s musical kings includes scoring Brothers, an official remake of the Tom Hardy-starring 2011 Hollywood film, Warriors.
ajayatul.com
Brothers Ajay and Atul Gogavale are two of Bollywood’s most successful composers, marrying the traditional music of their homeland with contemporary styles to mesmerising effect.
Born in Mumbai and brought up in several villages in Western Maharashtra, the pair had no formal musical training, instead cutting their teeth arranging works with local acts. They went on to throw themselves into the world of Bollywood feature films, becoming two of the most in-demand musical writers and directors in the Marathi film industry.
A long list of accolades from their career includes winning the Best Music Direction prize at the National Film Awards for their work on Jogwa and composing India’s theme music at Hannover Messe, the world’s biggest industrial fair, on the personal invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The latest work for Bollywood’s musical kings includes scoring Brothers, an official remake of the Tom Hardy-starring 2011 Hollywood film, Warriors.
ajayatul.com
Rebeka
Analogue synthesisers are at the heart of Rebeka, a Polish pop duo blending sophistication with emotional experimentation.
Eighties synthesisers, children’s toys, guitars and a tape dictaphone are among the musical arsenal deployed by Iwona and Bartek to fire up their music. In a similar vein to the Knife or Rokysopp, once you’ve scratched away at the metallic surface of their songs, you’ll find a human pulse beating beneath it. It’s this cocktail of hot and cold which led to their debut album, Hellada, named as Polish Album of the Year back in 2013 by national newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
A fascination with pop melodies and electronics have spilled into 2015 with latest EP, Breath, showing off a darker, odder side to their songs. The pair have attracted much applause following shows at Primavera Sound, the Great Escape, as support to Damon Albarn and a second LP is now expected in the next year.
rebeka.bandcamp.com
Analogue synthesisers are at the heart of Rebeka, a Polish pop duo blending sophistication with emotional experimentation.
Eighties synthesisers, children’s toys, guitars and a tape dictaphone are among the musical arsenal deployed by Iwona and Bartek to fire up their music. In a similar vein to the Knife or Rokysopp, once you’ve scratched away at the metallic surface of their songs, you’ll find a human pulse beating beneath it. It’s this cocktail of hot and cold which led to their debut album, Hellada, named as Polish Album of the Year back in 2013 by national newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
A fascination with pop melodies and electronics have spilled into 2015 with latest EP, Breath, showing off a darker, odder side to their songs. The pair have attracted much applause following shows at Primavera Sound, the Great Escape, as support to Damon Albarn and a second LP is now expected in the next year.
rebeka.bandcamp.com
