July 19, 2023
We hope to be releasing the new verison of Andrew's website sometime tomorrow, so please make sure to come back soon to see the new site! |
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Be sure to pick up the latest issue of Prog Magazine Italy, scheduled for release tomorrow! It features a 10-page interview with Andrew by Francesco Ferrua. In this in-depth interview, Andrew discusses his extensive career including his work with Cockney Rebel, Nick Drake, Stray, Al Stewart, Kansas, The Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, and many more. Andrew was also interviewed by Nick Hasted for the cover story about Kate Bush's 40 greatest songs for the latest issue of Uncut's magazine. |
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IRCAM
Andrew and Kirsten travelled to Paris at the end of May to work for a couple of days at IRCAM (the electronic music institution founded by Pierre Boulez) with one of their technical experts on a new work for solo horn and live electronics, which will be included in the forthcoming Wallace Colection CD. Recording should take place in early Septemebr, and then we should have a release date for the record. |
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April 8, 2023
It was with great sadness that I heard the news this morning that my good friend, colleague and collaborator Ian Bairnson had died last night after a long battle with dementia. My sympathies go to his loving and caring wife Leila, who supported him through thick and thin. I shall always remember his great sense of humour - you could rely on Ian to come up wth something to lighten the air if a recording session had got “difficult” - apart from, obviously, his superb guitar playing. Many of the records I worked on benefitted from his guitar-playing genius - I’m not only thinking of the well known ones such as his brilliant solo on Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”, but also some lesser known ones - a particular favourite of mine is the solo he played on the Elaine Paige album which I co-produced with Tim Rice - on a Dave Townsend song called “Far Side of the Bay.” It’s a gem!
Andrew
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December 13, 2022
At last the final recording sessions for the Wallace Collection’s CD of Andrew’s brass music have taken place - in Glasgow on the 5th and 6th November - with the Wallace Collection Quintet conducted by John Wallace, with Kirsten Powell engineering, and Andrew producing. This session has been postponed no less than 5 times because of various changes in Covid regulations! The final piece to be recorded was “Within Those Radiances…”, a work which was first performed by the Wallace collection in December 2000 in London, and is mainly inspired by the ritualisitic music of Tibet. The piece is quite long - some 18 minutes - and also rather difficult technically, so there is quite a large amount of editing to be done, which is ongoing at the moment. Once that has finished we will add all of the “live electronic” effects to the recording, and then mix it. We are still in discussion about a release date for the CD, as we want to tie it in with a series of concerts.
The Flip Kowlier album “September” spent 9 weeks on the Belgian charts, and reached its highest position at no. 11
Andrew and David Paton are still talking about re-starting their writing and recording collaboration, but Andrew has been busy working on this brass CD, and a series of new choral works, as well as a new work for French Horn and live electronics, and David has been very busy finishing and promoting his latest Pilot CD (Pilot: The Magic Collection), and writing and doing the final edits for his book “Magic - The David Paton Story”, which has just now been released by the publisher Sonicbond.
Andrew has also been back in contact with David Pack, and they too are talking about re-starting their work together…
Finally, Andrew would like to wish all of you a very Happy Christmas, and all the best for 2023. |
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