2017 Blog
Explore the Behind the Scene of Village Green Recordings’ Artists with “A Portrait of” Video Series
Village Green Recordings is a flourishing independent British label, who we are happy to say we have worked with on; John Matthias' & Jay Auborn's - Pretoria Remixed EP and Angele David-Guillou's - Mouvements Organiques. Village Green manifesto is to reshape and to continue reshaping the landscape of minimalism, classical and electronic music, which they do through their diverse roster of forward-thinking modern composers in the worlds of modern classical, ambient and electronic music.
Their new video series, A Portrait Of, gives a profound perceptual insight into the behind-the-scenes of their artists’ creative process. So far the series has given light to their artists; Matt Dunkley and his newly released album Cycle 7-16 and Jim Copperthwaite on his recently released Ballroom Ghosts.
North England’s highly experienced composer and producer, Jim Copperwithwaite toured globally playing the drums, bass, and keys whilst producing, remixing and recording. Copperthwaite’s recent album, ‘Balloon Ghosts’, explored his fascination with the remanence of the people and music that once filled beautiful ballrooms, the residue left behind the music and the experiences that happened in what are now abandoned and decaying places.
The album is one that allows for an experience of divination, bringing to life what once was through his creation of an enigmatic, rich and profound sound.
The video has been filmed and directed by freelance director and editor Tom Palliser.
Cycle 7-16 is another recently released album from one of Village Green’s artists; Matt Dunkley, one of the leading orchestrators, arrangers, and conductors, for film, tv, and theatre. Familiar titles out of the 130 movies Dunkley had worked on are Black Swan, Moulin Rouge, and Inception.
His A Portrait Of episode takes a look at the production process of his second album which is said to be inspired by years of travelling. The track Cycle 7, tense and wintry, was inspired by an early morning in Berlin, while Cycle 15 was written whilst on a conducting trip to Norway. Through the episode, we get to see Dunkley’s home and writing sanctuary, though many of his works for the album were crafted on Dunkley’s travels, he shows his home as the place where he really gets to work, before the intimate settings of wood, strings, horse hair, bows and human beings. Within the 4 minute journey, we also get to meet Matt Dunkley’s Chief of Engineering Geoff Foster, who touches on his role in recording the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg in Berlin and also mixing the recordings to achieve Dunkley’s vision.
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