As you know, or maybe you don’t, I’ve been adding music to some documentaries over the last couple of years, I’ll get ’round to sticking up some Audio some time. I was asked to do this song which I’d kind of forgotten about and realised I like; so after trying to make it sound a bit better I did a Video this week in the garden, to give you a reason to listen in this yes! hot, hot heat, which I reliably predict will last until November; (or at least the school holidays) It’s OK – (the video I mean, the weather is definitely brilliant).
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Winstanley Film
I’m just not paying you enough attention – I know! What can I say I’m busy. Done a lot of music, working on first Album (nearly there hopefully by the Summer) The Library Event which we did again bigger and better. That defiantly deserves a post of its own sometime. Also more commissions which is great! Just finished one an hour ago, and here’s one for a film about the Winstanley Estate which I recorded a song for. Haven’t seen it yet – let me know if it’s any good!!
loving this one at the moment + news
… just that really
great sound I won’t make comparisons -why can’t everyone be this good?
… also well you’re there I just got this e-mail:
Sherbet Dab is going to be on TV this Friday 9th February at 9pm. Then repeated the following week.
It will be on the channel “Together” (used to be The Community Channel)
– this is on Freeview 93, Sky 539, Virgin 269 and Freesat 164So this will be around 60,000 to 100,000 more people will be watching their film!
I did the music for this film about London Cabbies – great to hear tele bought it!
The Library
The Library
A Listening Experiment
The Rules
Visitors are kindly reminded:
• Upon entrance to the ‘Library’ complete Silence will be Observed.
• Patrons may provide a yoga mat or similar upon which to sit or lie.
• Listeners may relax, close their eyes and entirely ignore performers.
• No Applause will be required between songs.
• Movement/dance though not encouraged is acceptable.
What is it?
An evening of Musical Entertainments:
with Performances by:
Sound artist Petri Huurinainen
vincent burke with faithful band
Rojhat gun
jonathan buckley
and Jawad Al-Nawab
The evenings entertainments will culminate in a performance of John Cages 4.33
followed by a Q and A and hot tea
Saturday evening, Jan. 27, 6-8pm at the Lido Pavilion
Arrive Promptly for Admission
‘The Library’ affords listeners the freedom not to talk, opening a space for genuine Listening.
‘The Library affords performers a space for presentations of uncompromised subtlety.
beneath the floor
Here’s a song I wrote a while ago
Click here for the Video: beneath the floor
I don’t want to say to much about what it’s all about – hopefully that’s clear enough and the lyrics are below.
The Arrangement was fun now I’ve got a new set-up I can bash harmony on and work pretty quickly.
Same thing with the Video which I did in one night smashing up
– Jan Švankmajer’s animation (1971)
zooming/cutting and re-ordering bits
it all fitted surprisingly well
so I let it out
to
you
first time you hit the ground
you fall and float without a sound
and it feels so good
you wanna shout out
it feels so good!
next time you want some more
you wanna get beneath the floor
and it feels so good
you wanna do it
it feels so good
no one talks about tomorrow
no one slaps your face with sorrow
no one tramples on your light and
no one talks about tomorrow
what you beg and who you borrow
no one cares about tomorrow
no one cares at all
next time you ask for more
you wanna shoot you wanna score
and it feels all right
and when you do it
it feels alright
next time you’re on the bed
you’ve got a puncture in your head
but you feel alright
you gotta do it to feel alright
no one talks about tomorrow
no one slaps your face with sorrow
no one tramples on your light and
you go to another place where
people move out into spaces
pyramids and broken water
fall out of the moon
no one talks about tomorrow
no one slaps your face with sorrow
no one tramples on your light and
no one told you about tomorrow
what you beg and who you borrow
no one walks into the mist and
disappears from view
taxi!
Usually I inflict music on the world whether it’s actually wanted or not…
…Occasionally someone asks for some. Which is interesting because I get sent off in a different direction musically.
Here for example is some music for a film on London Taxis.
I like to produce something that works as a whole piece of music, but I also need to hit certain moods; so here comes a jolly game!
See whether you can find these bits in the music
(if you can’t one of us is rubbish).
Main Taxi Theme — Driving at Night — Going around in Circles — Build up of Traffic — Driving back home.
And why not watch some DigitalWorks films here!
king of kings
I know – it’s been ages I’ve forgotten how this thing works.
Written a lot of songs though. This one may not be a masterpiece but it kicks along and delivers a bit of punch.
Jet lagged after Jamaica the tune jumped into my head. I think I’d heard someone on the radio and been reminded that you just can’t argue logic around religion. Faith means believing against all logic and the less sense it makes to believe the more faithful you are so well done!
If you pray your village won’t slide into the sea and then it does prayer still works, it just wasn’t the right thing to ask for.
Anyway in my jet lagged state I imagined the end of the song being a bigger and bigger chant of “praying to the kings kings” steamrollering over a yelping version of me. Maybe I should have done that, instead I did this!…
king of kings : video click to play!!
oh the video is kind of distracting from the meaning in places so the words are below; I did it quick and the kids liked it so here it is – hope I didn’t go too far (it’s not very subtle).
Look after yourselves atheists! and if you are religious don’t hurt anyone 😉
king of kings
all those people sitting in the dirt are
praying to the king of kings
all those people in the big fat church are
praying to the king of kings.
homophobic African preachers are
praying to the king of kings
paedophile catholics and PE teachers are
praying to the king of kings.
give up your religion
give up your god
it won’t improve your behaviour
but it could make you act a whole lot worse…
winston churchill and adolph hitler were
praying to the king of kings
donald trump and the ku klux klan are
praying to the king of kings
give up your religion
give up your faith
it justifies your behaviour
while screwing up the human race
muslims, christians, every side are
praying to the king of kings
so fire your gun with spiritual pride you’re all
praying to the king of kings
give up your religion
give up your god
it won’t improve your behaviour
but it could make you act a whole lot worse…
when your village slides to the sea you’ll still be
praying to the king of kings
it’s just one more trick to keep you down on your knees while you’re
praying to the king of kings
it’s just one more trick to keep you down on your knees while you’re
praying to the king of kings
praying to the king of kings…Pow!
Late on Saturday night 2 weeks ago I got this amazing e-mail:
“We would love to invite you to play our stage, which will be recorded for later broadcast across one or more of the following BBC Radio Networks including BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC 6 Music and the 36 BBC Introducing local shows across the UK. We will have numerous presenters join us across the weekend to introduce all the acts onto stage including BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris, Lopa Kothari from Radio 3’s World on 3, Max Reinhardt from Radio 3’s the Late Junction and more.
BBC Introducing supports new musicians at the BBC and we have stages across the major festivals in the UK. We would be delighted if Vincent Burke could perform at our BBC Introducing stage at Latitude Festival in July.Date: Saturday 16th July
Time: 1800
Stage: BBC Introducing’s Lavish Lounge, In the Woods
Set length: 25 mins”
!!!!
Ok so 2 weeks later it’s announced, I’ve got the set together and had a haircut, so nerves aside, I’m ready to go!
Here’s a link to the stage with some stuff about me if you click on it:-)
http://www.latitudefestival.com/news/announcing-new-bbc-introducing-stage
Thanks for the friends who came round last night for a set preview and said nice things. I’ll let you know how it went and if you do know anyone who’s going would be great to see them there, let them know! 🙂
‘this is us now’
I had a week off and wrote 2 songs – (this is one of them)
I got the melody one day packing up to go camping – it was pouring with rain but we’re English. By the time we got to a field outside Cheddar it was fine. Next morning the sun came out hot, everything slowed down and I did the words for the second Verse (which make sense of what I already had) eating cornflakes and sitting in the mouth of the tent.
Verse 1 – when we met
Verse 2 – where we are now
I hope it catches life as a string of valuable moments.
For the film I searched the computer for put old camera clips – there were more than I could use of the children and almost none of me and Carol (I must change that) but it started to fit well so I wanted to finish it and show it to Carol, Nathaniel and Laurie on my birthday. Carol liked it because she was in it (and looking foxy).
The 100’s of still shots near the end were taken by our friend Chris Porter. We did them in the back garden while I span us round as quick as I could in a borrowed computer chair (I took out the shots where we fell off).
I’ve had the tune stuck in my head ever since hope you like it too.
That’s the link up there – this one goes back to Summer 1985; we thought we were being cool cooking up banana skins on a trangia ( I was quietly relieved it didn’t work) me, James, Alex, and Gutsy who had a tape-recorder and for some reason in the middle of the hot day put on a cassette of someone none of us had ever heard of – suzanne vega. This was her first album and from the beginning of the first song to the end of the album she had us – no-one said a word.
It’s 1980’s New York, it’s female, it’s grown up relationships; basically I knew nothing about any of that, but like the Woody Allen films I’d seen I kind of wanted to be in that world.
This is the first track from that album, delivered with simple conversational language, and stripped down (almost) to a guitar a voice; but sometimes when the song is strong enough that just gives it a sharper focus, like travelling straight into someone else mind.
It’s a one time thing
It just happens
A lot
Walk with me
And we will see
What we have got
Ah
My footsteps are ticking
Like water dripping from a tree
Walking a harline
And stepping very carefully
Ah
My heart is broken
It is worn out at the knees
Hearing muffled
Seeing blind
Soon it will hit the Deep Freeze
And something is cracking
I don’t know where
Ice on the sidewalk
Brittle braches
In the air
The sun
Is blinding
Dizzy golden, dancing green
Through the park in the afternoon
Wondering where the hell
I have been
Ah
there is at least one of mine which unconsciously probably owes her quite a lot it can happen to you I think she might have sung it better than I managed. I suppose this is one strand of what I’ve been trying to do in my own way ever since I heard her; write something so striking and clear that without a band or a big emotional delivery, I could grab even a tent of grubby fifteen year olds.