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1.1 John Malcolm Brinnin1.2 Set Fire to the Stars1.3 After Hours/Panic1.4 Tremble (Down)1.5 Tremble to the Light1.6 Tremble (Up)1.7 After Hours/Tension1.8 Log Cabin 11.9 Log Cabin 21.10 Log Cabin 31.11 John Adoring at Yale1.12 Set Fire to the Strings1.13 After Hours/Tender1.14 14 John ; the Poem1.15 B Chop Shop1.16 Atom Bomb1.17 After Hours/Contentment1.18 Ticking Clock1.19 Military Madness1.20 Caitlin's Theme1.21 Tremble (Joy)1.22 Dylan's Demons1.23 It Was Hot That Summer |
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1 |
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Description: | Set Fire To The Stars by Gruff Rhys, released 30 September 2016, includes the following tracks: "After Hours/Panic", "Tremble To The Light", "After Hours/Tension", "Log Cabin 2" and more.
This version of Set Fire To The Stars comes as a 1xLP. - Gruff Rhys presents the soundtrack for the film Set Fire To The Stars (2014). Although recorded around the same time as Gruff's last LP (2014's hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and atomic age bop, it's a love letter to New York in all it's hopeful, post war glory - a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruff's increasingly brilliant solo catalogue. Gruff on Set Fire To The Stars: "This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomas's first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm Brinnin. As the film is shot in black and white and set in the jazz age, I decided not to use any instruments unavailable in that era. I also kept the recordings as live takes. Beyond that - I didn't try and ape the style of that era in particular apart from the song 'Atom Bomb' which on screen, plays on a jukebox in a cafe and needed to be true to the year sonically and lyrically in some way. Playing the guitar, I formed a short lived 'Agro-Jazz' quartet (you got a problem with that?) called Video Loss with Chris Walmsley on drums, Jim Barr on double bass and Osian Gwynedd on piano. I wrote a bunch of songs and instrumentals. Some other bits were improvised to picture by Osian Gwynedd and myself. 'Chop Shop' features Video Loss on max Moon-Ra improvisational setting. Gruff ab Arwel arranged all the strings and Gavin Fitzjohn played and scored the brass. It was recorded and mixed at Toybox, Bristol by the incredible Ali Chant - apart from the strings which were recorded at Metropolis, London." |
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No. of tracks: |
23 |
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Manufacturer No.: |
TN093LP |
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