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Castle Of Doom Studios
Castle of Doom Studios, created in 2005 by record producer Tony Doogan and Mogwai, is a recording studio in Glasgow, Scotland. Overview It has been used by such artists as Mogwai, Malcolm Middleton, The Magnificents, Belle & Sebastian, Dirty Pretty Things, and Errors. The studios are located on Woodlands Road, in Glasgow. The studios are featured in the documentary film ''The Recording of Mr. Beast''. Barry Burns has commented on the studio: Stuart Braithwaite has also commented on the studio, saying: Releases recorded in Castle of Doom *Mogwai – '' Mr Beast'' *Mogwai – '' Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait'' *Mogwai – '' Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will'' *Mogwai – '' Rave Tapes'' * Errors – ''How Clean Is Your Acid House?'' *Malcolm Middleton – '' A Brighter Beat'' * The Magnificents – ''Year of Explorers'' * Art-School – ''Paradise Lost'' * *The Paddingtons – ''No Mundane Options'' * Must Be Something – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music'' (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: MIT Press, 2005).Richard James Burgess, ''The History of Music Production'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)pp 12–13Allan Watson, ''Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio'' (New York: Routledge, 2015)pp 25–27 The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology. Varying by project, the producer may or may not choose all of the artists. If employing only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the producer may be the sole artist. Conversely, some artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Brighter Beat (album)
''A Brighter Beat'' is the third studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter, Malcolm Middleton, released on 25 February 2007 on Full Time Hobby. The album is the first Middleton solo release since Arab Strap's split in 2006. Overview In 2006, after Arab Strap Arab Strap are a Scottish indie rock band whose core members are Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton. The band were signed to independent record label Chemikal Underground, split in 2006 and reformed in 2016. The band signed to Rock Action Reco ... had split up after ten years together, Malcolm signed to Full Time Hobby and recorded ''A Brighter Beat''. Malcolm has commented on the album, saying The album cover is a photograph by Scottish artist David Shrigley Track listing *"A Brighter Beat", "Fuck It, I Love You", "Fight Like The Night" and "We're All Going To Die" were released as singles. Personnel *Malcolm Middleton – guitar, bass guitar, vocals *Barry Burns – piano *Jenny Reeve – violin, vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Els Amics De Les Arts
Els Amics de les Arts is one of the best-known bands of what some have called the new wave of Catalan folk- pop. Their songs are short stories made with simple melodies, touches of electronic music, wordplay and much irony. History ''Catalonautes'' (Pistatxo Records, 2005) was the band's first demo album. It contained their first four songs, recorded at home in one afternoon. This was the first and the last album they planned to make. However, as a result of feedback they decided to make a second demo. ''Roulotte Polar'' (Pistatxo Records, 2006) was completed a year and a half later. They all went on an Erasmus exchange, each to a different place, but they wrote the songs together through Skype and recorded them in their winter holidays, in December 2007. ''Castafiore Cabaret'' (Pistatxo Records, 2008) was the group's first recorded album, with six self-produced songs. They sent 8,000 copies to the magazine Enderrock and started making homemade videos: ''Déjà-vu'' and ''A ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Optimist (Anathema Album)
''The Optimist'' is the eleventh album by Rock music, rock band Anathema (band), Anathema. The album was released on 9 June 2017, through Kscope,Anathema reveals new album details The Prog Report, 24 March 2017 three years after their last release, ''Distant Satellites''. The idea for ''The Optimist'' originated from the cover artwork of the album ''A Fine Day to Exit'' (2001). The coordinates from the first track are pointing to Silver Strand (San Diego), Silver Strand beach in San Diego County, California, San Diego County, the location that is shown on the cover of ''A Fine Day to Exit''. ''The Optimist'' won "Album of the Year" at the 2017 Prog (magazine), Progressive Music Awards. It is the final album featuring bassist Jamie Cavanagh before he left the band a second ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anathema (band)
Anathema were an English rock band from Liverpool. The group was formed in 1990 by Vincent and Daniel Cavanagh, bassist Jamie Cavanagh, drummer/keyboardist John Douglas, and vocalist Darren White. The band maintained an active concert schedule throughout their career. They first toured in 1992 with the American death metal band Cannibal Corpse; they since performed throughout Europe, the United States, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Turkey. In the latter stages of their career, the band performed at notable venues such as London's O2 Arena, Wembley Arena, and the London Palladium, as well as appearing on stage with Stephen Hawking at Starmus Festival 3. Anathema released 11 studio albums, including ''Distant Satellites'' (2014), which included the song "Anathema", named the Anthem of the Year at the third annual Progressive Music Awards. Three years later '' The Optimist'' was named Album of the Year at the Progressive Music Awards. History 1990-1995: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atomic (Mogwai Album)
''Atomic'' is an Soundtrack, original soundtrack album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, released on 1 April 2016 on Rock Action Records. The music was originally composed for Mark Cousins (film critic), Mark Cousins' documentary ''Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise''. The album features entirely instrumental music from start to finish. The song titles allude to Nuclear weapon, atomic bombs such as Little Boy and Tsar Bomba, Tzar Bomba as well as scientific or military objects and concepts connected with nuclear power such as Scram, SCRAM, Uranium-235 and Pripyat, the abandoned city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. It is the first Mogwai album to not feature guitarist John Cummings, who left the band in 2015. Critical reception ''Atomic'' received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a standard score, normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an weighted mean, avera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
''Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave'' is the fourth studio album by Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad, released by FatCat Records on 27 October 2014. The album was released to overwhelmingly positive reviews, with Allmusic summarising the album as "The Twilight Sad transform everything that came before into some of their most compelling music. By blending the extremes of their previous albums, they give intimate moments an epic scope in ways that sound truly revitalized... Equally desolate and majestic, ''Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leaves naked emotions and sophisticated music mark a new high point for the Twilight Sad." Background In an interview with Contactmusic.com, guitarist/producer Andy MacFarlane explained that with ''Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave'', the band aimed to capture all the different forms their music has taken over the years, from "full on noise/feedback, to a sparse, synth led sound, to a stripped ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight Sad
The Twilight Sad are a Scottish post-punk/indie rock band, comprising James Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar), Johnny Docherty (bass), Brendan Smith (keyboards) and Grant Hutchison (drums). They have released five studio albums, as well as several EPs, live recordings and singles. Their 2007 debut album, ''Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters'', drew widespread acclaim from critics, who noted Graham's thick Scottish accent and MacFarlane's dense sonic walls of shoegazing guitar and wheezing accordion. The Twilight Sad's notoriously loud live performances have been described as "completely ear-splitting", and the band toured for the album across Europe and the United States throughout 2007 and 2008. Sessions inspired by stripped-down and reworked live performances yielded the 2008 mini-album, '' Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did''. The band's second album, ''Forget the Night Ahead'', marked a shift in their direction; lyrically more personal and musically darker and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fountain (soundtrack)
''The Fountain: Music from the Motion Picture'' is the soundtrack album to the 2006 film ''The Fountain'' directed by Darren Aronofsky. Released on November 27, 2006, through Nonesuch Records, the album is a collaboration between contemporary classical composer and frequent Aronofsky collaborator Clint Mansell, classical string quartet the Kronos Quartet, and post-rock band Mogwai. The score received mixed reviews from critics and was nominated for several awards. Recording Clint Mansell—the composer for Aronofsky's previous films '' Pi'' and ''Requiem for a Dream''—reprised his role for ''The Fountain''. The San Francisco-based string quartet Kronos Quartet—who previously performed for the ''Requiem for a Dream'' soundtrack—and Scottish post-rock band Mogwai also contributed to the film score. Darren Aronofsky hoped that David Bowie—whose song "Space Oddity" helped influence the film's space traveler storyline—would record a song when the musical artist worked brief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fountain
''The Fountain'' is a 2006 American epic romantic drama film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. Blending elements of fantasy, history, spirituality, and science fiction, the film consists of three storylines involving immortality and the resulting loves lost, and one man's pursuit of avoiding this fate in this life or beyond it. Jackman and Weisz play sets of characters bonded by love across time and space: a conquistador and his ill-fated queen, a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, and a traveler immersed in a universal journey alongside aspects of his lost love. The storylines—interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs—reflect the themes and interplay of love and mortality. Aronofsky originally planned to direct ''The Fountain'' on a $70 million budget with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles, but Pitt's withdrawal and cost overruns led Warner Bros. to shut down his producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Red
Lourdes Hernández González, known professionally as Russian Red, is a Spanish indie and folk singer-songwriter. Known by many as the "Spanish Feist", in reference to the Canadian singer-songwriter who inspires her in many of her attitudes on the microphone, Hernández—who writes and sings all of her compositions in English—states that she sings in that language instinctively because she has always listened to music in English. History Russian Red's project began when Hernández met Brian Hunt, a musician with an English father and Spanish mother, with whom she recorded a demo (which included tracks that remain unpublished like "Reason", "The Night of the Paper", and "Sadie") that reached more than 70,000 visits on her MySpace page by 2008. The name Russian Red comes from the color of a lipstick that Hernández herself usually wears. When asked how she chose the name, Hernández stated: "I had a band without a name some time ago. Since then, I was haunted by an obse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Must Be Something
Must (from the Latin ''vinum mustum'', "young wine") is freshly crushed fruit juice (usually grape juice) that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit. The solid portion of the must is called pomace and typically makes up 7–23% of the total weight of the must. Making must is the first step in winemaking. Because of its high glucose content, typically between 10 and 15%, must is also used as a sweetener in a variety of cuisines. Unlike commercially sold grape juice, which is filtered and pasteurized, must is thick with particulate matter, opaque, and comes in various shades of brown and purple. Winemaking The length of time the pomace stays in the juice is critical for the final character of the wine. When the winemaker judges the time to be right, the juice is drained off the pomace, which is then pressed to extract the juice retained by the matrix. Yeast is added to the juice to begin the fermentation, while the pomace is often returned to the vineyard or orchard for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
