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Pana-vision
"Pana-vision" is the fourth single by the English rock band the Smile, released on 3 April 2022. It is included on their debut album, ''A Light for Attracting Attention.'' Music video An animated visualizer directed by Sabrina Nichols, using imagery by the Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood, was released alongside on 3 April 2022. ''Mxdwn.com'' writer Lauren Floyd called the video "cinematic", saying it features "dramatically elongated and drawn out shapes and figures ... parallel to Yorke's airy falsetto". On July 20, 2022, the scene from the series finale of the British television series ''Peaky Blinders'' that used "Pana-vision" in full three months earlier was uploaded as a separate live-action music video for the song. The music video was directed by series director Anthony Byrne. Reception "Pana-vision" received favourable reviews. Tyler Golsen of ''Far Out Magazine'' gave it 7.2 out of 10, calling it the Smile's most "nebulous track" so far, and likened it to Jonny Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Light For Attracting Attention
''A Light for Attracting Attention'' is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Smile. It was digitally released through XL Recordings on 13 May, 2022, with a physical release on 17 June. The Smile comprises the Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with the drummer Tom Skinner. Yorke provided vocals, and he and Greenwood played guitar, bass and keyboards. The album was produced by Radiohead's longtime producer Nigel Godrich. The Smile worked during the COVID-19 lockdowns and made their surprise debut in a performance streamed by Glastonbury Festival in May 2021. In early 2022, they released five singles and performed to an audience for the first time at three shows in London in January, which were livestreamed. They began a European tour in May. ''A Light for Attracting Attention'' received acclaim and reached number five on the UK Albums Chart. Background and recording The Smile comprises the Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Smile (band)
The Smile are an English rock band comprising the Radiohead members Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, bass, keys) and Jonny Greenwood (guitar, bass, keys) with the drummer Tom Skinner. They are produced by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead's longtime producer. They incorporate elements of post-punk, progressive rock, Afrobeat and electronic music. The Smile worked during the COVID-19 lockdowns and made their surprise debut in a performance streamed by Glastonbury Festival in May 2021. In early 2022, they released six singles and performed to an audience for the first time at three shows in London, which were livestreamed. In May, the Smile released their debut album, ''A Light for Attracting Attention'', to acclaim, and began an international tour. History Jonny Greenwood said the Smile came from his desire to work with his Radiohead bandmate Thom Yorke during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Smile are produced by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead's longtime producer. Godrich said the project emerged from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skrting On The Surface
"Skrting on the Surface" is a song by the English rock band the Smile. It was released on 17 March 2022 as the third single from the Smile's debut album, ''A Light for Attracting Attention''. It features guitar arpeggios in the time signature . The singer, Thom Yorke, and the guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, developed it from an earlier unreleased song by their band Radiohead. History Variations on the title phrase appeared on the Radiohead website around the time of their album ''OK Computer'' (1997). The Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, first performed "Skrting on the Surface" in 2009 in a solo piano rendition while touring with his band Atoms for Peace. In 2012, Radiohead performed a different arrangement, which ''Pitchfork'' described as "a bleak slow-groover". In 2021, Yorke and the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood announced a new band, the Smile, with the drummer Tom Skinner. Skinner said "Skrting on the Surface" was one of the first songs they worked on, and developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free In The Knowledge
"Free in the Knowledge" is a song by the English rock band the Smile. It was released on 20 March 2022 as the third single from the Smile's debut album, ''A Light for Attracting Attention,'' by XL Recordings. The song was first performed by the singer, Thom Yorke, in October 2021 at the Royal Albert Hall. The song was also played on December 2, 2021, on a live Instagram post featuring the band rehearsing new tracks with one of these being "Free in the Knowledge". Music video The music video was directed by Leo Leigh and features a ritualistic ceremony in a forest. The video has been described as unsettling and haunting. Reception Writing for ''Consequence'', Alex Lake described "Free in the Knowledge" as an "extremely successful attempt at evoking a misty-eyed thousand-yard stare", and praised the band calling them "extremely overqualified". Nathaniel Fitzgerald of ''Tuned Up'' wrote that it broke from the album's "hyperactive jazz drums and angular guitar in favour of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theon Cross
Theon Cross is a British tuba player and composer. Background Born and raised in London to a Jamaican father and Saint Lucian mother, he began taking tenor horn lessons at the age of 8, then switched to tuba when he was in his mid-teens. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Cross is a core member of the jazz band Sons of Kemet. He has also worked with Moses Boyd and Nubya Garcia in his solo projects. Other collaborators include Jon Batiste, Emeli Sandé, Kano, Lafawndah and Makaya McCraven Makaya McCraven (born October 19, 1983) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Life and career McCraven was born in Paris, France, to jazz drummer and Hungarian singer Ágnes Zsigmondi (of the band Kolind, and from the age of three was ra .... His solo releases include the 2015 EP ''Aspirations'' and the 2019 studio album, ''Fyah''. On 29 October 2021 Cross released his sophomore studio album ''Intra-I''. Discography Studio albums Extended plays * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byron Wallen
Byron Wallen (born July 1969) is a British jazz trumpeter, composer and educator. He was described by '' Jazzwise'' as "one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive". As characterised by '' All About Jazz'', "He does not fit into any pigeonhole, however, and is also something of a renaissance man: he has long been involved in cognitive psychology and also travels widely, spending extended periods in South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Morocco, Indonesia and Belize (his parents' homeland)." Biography Wallen was born in London, England, to parents from Belize, and was brought up in a musical family – one of his three siblings is composer Errollyn Wallen. After beginning to learn classical piano as a young child, also playing euphonium, he went on to study the trumpet in New York in the mid- to late 1980s with Jimmy Owens, Donald Byrd and Jon Faddis. Wallen graduated from Sussex University with a degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Maths, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Yarde
Jason Yarde (born 1970) is an English jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, producer and music director. He has worked with a wide range of artists and music ensembles, including Denys Baptiste, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Jack DeJohnette, Hugh Masekela and the London Symphony Orchestra. Biography Yarde was born in 1970 in Beckenham, England, to Guyanese parents. While still a teenager at school, he began playing alto and soprano saxophone with the Jazz Warriors, and went on to become their music director. Yarde has also been associated with Tomorrow's Warriors since it was started. Yarde studied at Middlesex University, obtaining a BA (Hons) in Performance Arts; the degree incorporated a year at William Paterson College, New Jersey, studying orchestration, studio engineering, jazz performance and saxophone under Joe Lovano, Gary Smulyan and Steve Wilson. In 2007, Yarde's work ''All Souls Seek Joy'' was premiered by Hugh Masekela and the London Sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Brunt
Hugh Brunt is a British conductor. He shares with Robert Ames the positions of artistic director and principal conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra. Career Brunt was a chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle and a music scholar at Radley College before attending New College, Oxford, where he was a choral scholar. He co-founded the London Contemporary Orchestra in 2008, along with conductor and violist Robert Ames. Brunt conducted Jonny Greenwood’s soundtrack to Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2012 film '' The Master'', Jed Kurzel’s soundtrack to Justin Kurzel’s 2015 film ''Macbeth'', and the string and choir arrangements on Radiohead's 2016 album '' A Moon Shaped Pool''. He has also collaborated as an arranger and/or conductor with artists including Foals, Imogen Heap, Actress, Beck Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Contemporary Orchestra
The London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO), founded in 2008 by Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames, is an ensemble of young musicians whose stated aim is "to explore and promote new music to an increasingly wide audience". LCO staged its inaugural season at LSO St Luke's and has since performed at venues and festivals both in the UK and internationally including the Roundhouse, Latitude Festival, The Old Vic Tunnels, Snape Maltings, Southbank Centre, Barbican, Spitalfields Music and Royal Opera House, Yota Space, Unsound Festival. LCO has since worked on films including ''Theeb'', ''Moonlight'', '' Macbeth (2015)'', '' Slow West,'' '' The Master, The Two Popes and American Animals (2018).'' In January 2022 performed 24, a continuous 24-hour long concert at the Barbican Centre. In 2010 the LCO was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards (Audience Development category), and in 2015 LCO was the winner of the Ensemble category at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Skinner (drummer)
Tom Skinner is an English drummer, percussionist, and record producer. He co-founded the jazz band Sons of Kemet and is a member of the rock band the Smile. He has released two albums under the name Hello Skinny. His first album under his own name, '' Voices of Bishara'', was released in November 2022. Career Skinner began playing drums at the age of nine. He enjoyed 1990s grunge and metal bands such as Napalm Death, before discovering experimental jazz musicians such as John Zorn and Ornette Coleman. Skinner emerged in the London jazz scene, playing with musicians including Finn Peters, Cleveland Watkiss and Denys Baptiste, and the electronic artist Matthew Herbert. Skinner was a member of the jazz trio Zed-U and the avant-garde soul group Elmore Judd. In 2011, he cofounded the jazz band Sons of Kemet. They released four albums and announced their disbandment in 2022. Skinner first worked with the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood when he performed on Greenwood's so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals); and Philip Selway (drums, percussion). They have worked with the producer Nigel Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994. Radiohead's experimental approach is credited with advancing the sound of alternative rock. Radiohead signed to EMI in 1991 and released their debut album, '' Pablo Honey,'' in 1993; their debut single, "Creep", became a worldwide hit. Radiohead's popularity and critical standing rose with the release of ''The Bends'' in 1995. Radiohead's third album, ''OK Computer'' (1997), brought them international fame; noted for its complex production and themes of modern alienation, it is acclaimed as a landmark record and one of the best albums in popular music. Radiohe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Will Never Work In Television Again
"You Will Never Work in Television Again" is a song by the English rock band the Smile. It was released on 5 January 2022 as the debut single from their debut album, ''A Light for Attracting Attention''. The Smile first performed it in the 2021 Glastonbury livestream ''Live at Worthy Farm''. Reception Some publications compared "You Will Never Work in Television Again" favourably to Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's main band Radiohead. Tyler Golsen of '' Far Out Magazine'' gave it 8.3/10, calling it "a solid and powerful rocker that lets the guys in Radiohead just hang loose and rock out for the first time in a while". The '' NPR'' writer Brian Burns likened it to the post-punk acts Mission of Burma and Swell Maps, while the ''Guitar World'' writer Jackson Maxwell compared it to Sonic Youth. Music video The band released a lyric video alongside the single directed by Duncan Loudon. The video features the song's lyrics scrolling past on a teleprompter. ''Far Out Magazine' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
