Moving Image Verve/Polygram
The music for Moving Image was composed by Andy Sheppard and Steve Lodder for television, and grows out of their established musical partnership as Small Co-Motion.
1 Being There (Sheppard) 7.41
2 Interiors (Sheppard/Lodder) 3.15
3 Cheetah (Lodder) 2.45
4 Dark Moods (Sheppard/Lodder) 5.52
5 Lolita (Sheppard) 4.44
6 Tone Poem (Sheppard/Lodder) 1.50
7 Chablis (Lodder) 4.25
8 Exteriors (Sheppard/Lodder) 7.42
9 Strange Love (Lodder) 3,51
10 Slow Cheetah (Lodder) 4.17
11 Moto (Sheppard/Lodder) 3.40
12 Woofie (Sheppard/Lodder) 3.48
Sleeve Notes
The music for "The Peter Sellers Story", first shown in 1995, underpins a fascinating series that uses unique footage from the revered actor and comedian's home movies, as well as film extracts, rehearsal takes and interviews. "Dazzlingly directed by Peter Lydon it worked superbly on many levels - biographical, historical, psychological the brilliant score relaxed the programme, yet had its own complex structure." (Victor Lewis-Smith in the Evening Standard).
Steve Cole's film about Joseph Emidy, documents the extraordinary life of an African musician, born around 1775 (violinist, cellist, composer), who travelled as a slave from his 1 native Guinea to Brazil, then to Lisbon (where he learnt violin) and thence, via the press gang, to Falmouth in Cornwall - where he settled as a musician, composer and teacher respected throughout the county and further afield. With none of Emidy's manuscripts extant, the music is designed as an imagined response to the kind of music that a person of such varied provenance might have created.
Andy Sheppard tenor & soprano sax
Steve Lodder keyboards
Dudley Philips bass (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10)
Mark Mondesir drums (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10)
Johnny "Ice" Taylor violin (tracks 11 & 12)
Richard Ajileye percussion (track 11)
Bosco, d'Olivera percussion (tracks 1, 5)
Produced by Andy Sheppard & Steve Lodder Engineered by Robin Prior at Protocol, London except tracks 11 & 12, engineered by Andy Alien at Christchurch Studios, Bristol. Mastered by Roger Wake. Sleeve design: Lacy Ward.
Photography: Mel Yates. Release production: Becky Stevenson at Verve.
Executive producers John Cumming & John Ellson
for Serious.
Tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, recorded January 5 & 6 1995.
Tracks 11 & 12 recorded August 22 1996 Tracks 1, 2, 8 & 10 recorded August 26 & 27 1996
Tracks 1-10 were written for BBC TV's Arena series "The Peter Sellers Story", directed by Peter Lydon
Tracks 11 & 12 were written for the HTV/Arts Council documentary about Joseph Emidy, directed by Steve Cole.
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