In this audio guide, our narrators will introduce you to the music icons that have stormed our stages as well as the unsung stars and hidden facts of our fascinating 156 year history. 

This guide has been created by a collaboration of 12 Bristol artists and musicians led by Ngaio Anyia, a Bristol-based musician and filmmaker along with music contributions from local organisations.

Using spoken word, singing, music and guest narration, it brings to life the powerful voices and events that have shaped the venue’s past. 

The audio is devised as a standalone listening experience but can also be listened to whilst walking along the story wall and enjoying the extraordinary architecture of the newly restored lantern atrium which sits next to the Beacon Hall.

Credits
Ngaio Anyia: Writer, Lead Narrator, Composer, Arranger, Musician, Vocalist, Soundscape Artist 

Tom Hackwell: Composer, Arranger, Musician, Soundscape Artist, Mix and Mastering Engineer 

Bellatrix: Double Bass, Beatboxer, Soundscape Artist 

Danny Carlo Pandolfi: Writer, Narrator 

Vanessa Kisuule: Writer, Narrator 

Edson Burton: Guest Narrator 

Roger Griffith: Guest Narrator 

LaToyah McAllister-Jones: Guest Narrator 

KALA CHNG: Guest Narrator 

Lisa Glanfield - Guest Narrator 

Freya Glanfield - Guest Narrator 

Rebecca Sadler - Guest Narrator 

Cathy Mager - Producer
  

Music credits 
'Soundscape' - St Pauls Carnival
'Choir Boy' - Bristol Old Vic
'Bristol is Our Playground' - Lady Nade
Bristol Reggae Orchestra 
'Tears of an Actress' - Surgeons Girl / Paraorchestra

Find out more: https://bristolbeacon.org/our-history

Story Wall Audio Guide

Saun & Starr's debut album, Look Closer, is out now!

Get it digitally - radi.al/SaunAndStarr
Get it at the Daptone Shop - https://shopdaptonerecords.com/products/hot-shot-gonna-make-time
https://shopdaptonerecords.com/products/look-closer
Listen on Spotify - spoti.fi/1v1RbD3

Recorded with The Dap-Kings, the highly anticipated album was produced by Daptone's Gabriel Roth and features ten original tracks by the duo, including the hit “Hot Shot." The album was recorded at Daptone Records’ House of Soul studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2014.

www.facebook.com/saunandstarr
Twitter / Instagram - @saunandstarr

Buy on iTunes

Saun & Starr - Hot Shot

Laidu-Rokia Traore

In this audio guide, our narrators will introduce you to the music icons that have stormed our stages as well as the unsung stars and hidden facts of our fascinating 156 year history. 

This guide has been created by a collaboration of 12 Bristol artists and musicians led by Ngaio Anyia, a Bristol-based musician and filmmaker along with music contributions from local organisations.

Using spoken word, singing, music and guest narration, it brings to life the powerful voices and events that have shaped the venue’s past. 

The audio is devised as a standalone listening experience but can also be listened to whilst walking along the story wall and enjoying the extraordinary architecture of the newly restored lantern atrium which sits next to the Beacon Hall.

Credits
Ngaio Anyia: Writer, Lead Narrator, Composer, Arranger, Musician, Vocalist, Soundscape Artist 

Tom Hackwell: Composer, Arranger, Musician, Soundscape Artist, Mix and Mastering Engineer 

Bellatrix: Double Bass, Beatboxer, Soundscape Artist 

Danny Carlo Pandolfi: Writer, Narrator 

Vanessa Kisuule: Writer, Narrator 

Edson Burton: Guest Narrator 

Roger Griffith: Guest Narrator 

LaToyah McAllister-Jones: Guest Narrator 

KALA CHNG: Guest Narrator 

Lisa Glanfield - Guest Narrator 

Freya Glanfield - Guest Narrator 

Rebecca Sadler - Guest Narrator 

  

Music credits 
'Soundscape' - St Pauls Carnival
'Choir Boy' - Bristol Old Vic
'Bristol is Our Playground' - Lady Nade
Bristol Reggae Orchestra 
'Tears of an Actress' - Surgeons Girl / Paraorchestra

Find out more: https://bristolbeacon.org/our-history

The Story Wall - Panel 5 - The Little Theatre (1923)

The Story Wall - Panel 4 - Dogs, Dolls and Flowers (1910s)

The Story Wall - Panel 3 - Fire & Storm (1888)

The Story Wall - Panel 2 - Forgotten Acts

The Story Wall - Panel 1 - Origins

The Story Wall - Panel 11 - Contemporary Music evolution

"Bleak And Beautiful (All Things)" was the first single to be released from Haiku Salut's second album, "Etch And Etch Deep". 

Order CDs/LPs here: http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/haikushop.html

Buy the digital album here: https://howdoesitfeeltobeloved.bandcamp.com/


Haiku Salut, Bleak And Beautiful (All Things)

Taken from Same As You (2015)
https://polarbearmusic.bandcamp.com/album/same-as-you

Polar Bear - Dont Let The Feeling Go

Recorded as an Improvisation. Single take, no overdubs.

'Wall' is taken from the new album by Nils Frahm – 'Solo'. Revealed on Piano Day as a free download and available on CD/LP/DL via www.pianoday.org

Fans can donate to the special piano project which will enable Nils and piano builder David Klavins to create the Klavins M450, the tallest piano in the world.

“Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.” – Nils Frahm

HOW WILL YOU CELEBRATE PIANO DAY?

create your own piano events with friends or simply share your videos, poems, photos - anything that is piano inspired. don’t forget to tag us in your posts!

Instagram – #pianodayofficial
Twitter – twitter.com/piano__day
Facebook – facebook.com/pages/Piano-Day/382403391947996
Email – share your fun stuff with info@pianoday.org


Solo

Wall

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Taken from ‘Music for the Motion Picture Victoria’ – released by Erased Tapes on June 15th, 2015
ORDER LP/CD/Digital here:
www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP071
ORDER DL via iTunes here:
http://snip.ftpromo.net/victoria

ABOUT:

Nils Frahm has always said that he’s just waiting for something real special when being asked if he would ever score the music for a film. And that’s exactly what German director Sebastian Schipper presented to him with his one-take feature ‘Victoria’. Filmed in Berlin, Victoria’s plot sees a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town, but their wild night of partying suddenly turns into a bank robbery as the music changes from techno to subdued piano sounds.

For the recording session at Studio P4 in Berlin, Frahm enlisted the help of long-time collaborator and cellist Anne Müller, violist Viktor Orri Árnason and ambient artist Erik K. Skodvin of Deaf Center on guitar.

‘Victoria’ won the Berlinale Film Festival prize for Best Cinematography and has also received seven nominations including Best Soundtrack for the Deutscher Filmpreis – Germany’s highest movie award, and will be released in cinemas across Germany on June 11th with plans to release it in the UK and other countries soon. 

More info: nilsfrahm.com · erasedtapes.com

Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

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Rozi Plain's See My Boat, remixes by Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Parisian DJ Plaisir De France, fellow Parisian trio Tristesse Contemporaine, and newcomer Clas Tuuth.

More info at
http://neednowaterrecords.com/needno014

Rozi Plain - See My Boat (Plaisir De France Remix)

Jan Hammer Group - Don't You Know (Jimi Bazzouka Edit)

Bristol Beacon is the South West's largest concert hall, entertaining the people of Bristol since 1867. We program the best in Jazz, Classical, World, Pop, Rock, Soul, Contemporary, Comedy, Community & Education. This Soundcloud account is for us to discover new music, share tracks we like, and bring you recordings from within the venue.

The Story Wall - Panel 11 - Contemporary Music evolution

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