Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything (2008)

Genre : Indie,Pop,Electronica,Classical,Singer-Songwriter GREAATT!!
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Tracklist

01. The Flood
02. Dumb Terminal
03. Portrait Of The Artist As A Fountain
04. Carbon
05. Victorinox
06. Il Trionfo Del Tempo... (Ridley Road)
07. Synchrotron
08. A Crack In Larsen C
09. Alsatian Dog
10. A New Sense Of Humour
11. Colophon

The new album, EVERYTHING/EVERYTHING, is finished, polished, cooked and ready for release this Autumn... there's a sneak preview in the music player above...

An unpredictable and dramatic "big band song cycle about science and information", EVERYTHING/EVERYTHING is a new departure for Simon Bookish, being his first album for TOMLAB.

Additionally, whilst previous Simon Bookish releases have been informed by the sounds of digital synthesizers, EVERYTHING/EVERYTHING does away with them entirely to focus on live instruments.

Scored for an ensemble dominated by saxophones, brass, piano, harp and Farfisa organ, it features luminaries from both the jazz and experimental classical music scenes.

Whilst this is almost certainly his most pop-oriented release to date, EVERYTHING/EVERYTHING, as it's name suggests, finds room for moments of racing Philip Glass minimalism, lop-sided disco, expressionist cabaret, and even an eery ambient interlude.

Lyrically, the album's concept is "the flood of information" in our modern age, taking in chemistry and ecology, language and art, sometimes surreal, sometimes humourous, sometimes provocative, a weird blur of fact and fiction, delivered in Bookish's distinctive English-eccentric vocal.

It's only natural that Simon Bookish would want to tackle this chaos of stuff, since 'Simon Bookish' is the pseudonym of London-based composer Leo Chadburn, whose diverse recent work has included everything from sound-art installations in Bregenz, Austria, improvisation and guest spots with Leafcutter John and Polar Bear's Seb Rochford, and computer music for contemporary dance at the Royal Opera House to an acclaimed appearance with the National Theatre as "The Singer" in Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle".