aaamusic | On 13, Jan 2011

SIMON FISHER TURNER

LONDON LIVE DATE

CAFÉ OTO – 27 JANUARY 2011

SIMON FISHER TURNER will perform at Café Oto in London on 27 January 2011. The event celebrates Sprawl’s 15^th Birthday celebrations. Seehttp://www.cafeoto.co.uk/sprawl-is-15.shtm for more information.

SFT is currently working on a brand new project to be released 2011, his first for Mute since 2006’s Lara Lana Lata, and will be talking about the sounds on the album at Café Oto. The forthcoming album by SFT + Espen J. Jörgensen, is made of what Turner calls “soundescapes” and is a haunted, delightful and, at times, danceable journey for your ears.
Simon Fisher Turner’s recent projects have include work with artist Alyson Shotz, scoring the 1924 film charting Scott of the Antartic’s ill fated expedition, The Great White Silence and for the films Lava, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, William Eggleston in the Real World, Nadja and Un Chant D’amour but his career began as a child actor, appearing in TV drama series’ like Tom Brown’s Schooldays and The Silver Sword. A meeting with pop svengali Jonathan King yielded Simon Turner, an album of cover versions with the young singer touted as the new David Cassidy. The album bombed, but he was already into more outré sounds, and the following year he appeared onstage at the Royal Albert Hall with the classical scratch orchestra, the Portsmouth Sinfonia.

Fisher Turner became Artist In Residence at the ICA in 1980 and while working as a driver for a management company in the early 80s, met film director Derek Jarman. Although he admits that, initially, he “had to ask people what to do” he composed soundtracks for Caravaggio, The Last Of England, The Garden and Edward II, a run that ended in 1993 with Blue, Jarman’s last film before his death. He has also pursued a parallel pop path, recording for Creation and Él and Cherry Red Records in the 1980s as the King Of Luxembourg, and latterly under the alias Loveletter. He has also recorded as Monday Sinclair and Deux Filles, a cross dressing duo with Colin Lloyd Tucker. His most recent score for The Great White Silence was premiered at the London Film Festival in 2010, and described by The Guardian as “”skilfully judged, and the blend of real sounds – such as the gramophones that would have played on the ship, the Terra Nova, as well as a recording of the ship’s bell – and sparse musical scoring seemed to respect the idea of silence while making sound”, and is due to be released on DVD later this year.
The SFT + Espen J. Jörgensen album will be released on Mute in Summer 2011.

LONDON LIVE DATE

27.01.11 – Café Oto – http://www.cafeoto.co.uk

Tickets are priced at £8 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/98098