Name: Frost Makes the Blade Stick by Jonathan Hamer
Duration: 3 min 19 s
Description: Written and produced in my new music set up in Twickenham with beautiful views and a great vibe made creative by the spirit of friendship and love I share with my friends and collaborators.

shabaka hutchings - bass clarinet
leafcutter john - electronics
cara stacey - umrhubhe bow

life cycle (live at st.john's bethnal green church)

Binker and Moses release their debut duo LP Dem Ones on analogue vinyl record label, Gearbox Records

Binker and Moses are tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd - two of the most exciting young jazz musicians on the thriving London jazz scene. Originally meeting through double bassist/educator Gary Crosby’s Tomorrow’s Warriors jazz development programme, they have played together in various large and small format groups including recording and touring extensively as members of Zara McFarlane’s band.

Dem Ones is their debut recording as a duo and will be released as a 12” 180gm vinyl LP on 29th May 2015. The record has its roots in experiments between soundchecks and gigs while on the road with McFarlane. Over time these initial ideas and jams have become templates for improvisation, and with their echoes of late period Coltrane and Charles Lloyd are as listenable and memorable as they are full of invention and surprise.

All the tracks were performed in the live room at Mark Ronson’s Zelig Studio and recorded direct to Gearbox's vintage Studer 1/4" tape machine next door. The vinyl lacquers were cut directly from this original stereo master on Gearbox’s 1967 Haeco Scully lathe with Westrex RA1700 series amps, using a Westrex 3DIIA cutting head and Telefunken U73B tube limiter, Maselec master control and equalisation and Audio Note monitoring equipment.


Binker and Moses - Black Ave Maria

A download of guided meditations aimed to complement the learnings found in Prof Mark William's and Dr Danny Penman's guide to freeing yourself from the stresses of everyday life. Containing all the meditations that are mentioned in the book this is an invaluable resource to cement their teachings on how to find Mindfulness, and how to keep it.

Mindfulness - Finding Peace In A Frantic World - Guided Meditations

Meditation Two: The Body Scan

It's You (prod. By Ishy Dee)

A response to the recent terror attacks in Manchester.

Men In Arms

Rihanna's Work (COVER)

Dark Eyes

A Preview Track Released Free : )  from my Debut Album 'Piece By Piece' Releasing 2018!  Recorded April 2015 in the Adrian Boult Hall Birmingham.
Recorded & Mixed by Ben Weatherill

Harry Bolt - Piano
Arnie Somogyi - Bass
Euan Palmer - Drums

Buy here :

https://www.harrybolt.com/music

Piece By Piece

I Was So Young, You Were So Beautiful

With their last original release coming in 2016, It may feel like The Busy Twist have shied away from the limelight in recent years but during this time they’ve been travelling and working hard on some of their most ambitious music yet, and in the process have set up their own label Busy Life Records. 

Busy Life is a project focused on joining the dots between West African, South American, Caribbean and UK electronic music by developing a sound which not only melds the sonic genealogy of all four palettes but also presents such crossovers faithfully. Developing an exchange with local artists that works in both directions is key to the label, and crucial to creating borderless music that can be shared with their family worldwide. 

The opening EP on the label ‘Sunny Side’ is a record years in the making and highlights the ever-decreasing gap between UK and modern African music. It is therefore fitting that many of the ideas heard on ‘Sunny Side’ were born during their very first trip to Ghana, and have been continually refined as Afro and UK sounds intertwine year on year. 

The EP is led by strong vocal performances from lead singer Zongo Abongo. An artist from Northern Ghana who has been part of the Busy Life family since its inception. It also features additional vocals from Kyekyeku and Siaka Djarra from Burkina Fasso.

01. Sunny Side 
Vocals: Zongo Abongo
Production: Ollie Twist, Gabriel Benn
Mastered by Precise Mastering

Sunny Side EP

PRE-ORDER

SUNNY SIDE (feat. Zongo Abongo)

Lyrics

Somewhere over the mountain
Lived a girl who had dreams 
Waiting by her frosted window pane
Longing for his return again

Years went by and still no-one came
Nobody knew the soldier's name
Left to rest upon no-man's land
He held his last foe and said 

I loved her
I loved her
I loved her 
She was my friend

Where is she? 
Somewhere across the sea
Why won't she come and help me?

But i'll love her
I'll still love her
I loved her
She was my friend 

Hand pressed upon the frosted glass
Hiding underneath a neutral mask
What she fears may probably be true
The men that have returned...are few

Riding out the storm and off to fight
She packs her bags, escapes into the night
Fears he was left to rest upon no-man's land

I loved her/I love you
I loved her/I've found you
I loved her
She was my friend

Where is she? (My darling now i've found you)
Somewhere across the sea (My love what have they done to you)
Why won't she come and help me?

But i'll love her...
I'll still love her...
I'll love her
She was my friend.

The Soldier's Friend

Written and produced in my new music set up in Twickenham with beautiful views and a great vibe made creative by the spirit of friendship and love I share with my friends and collaborators.

Frost Makes the Blade Stick

I'm a pianist/composer and have just finished studying an MA in Composition for Film and Television at Bristol Uni from 2014-15.

I started off writing mainly jazz influenced works for my quartet and then began merging some of these ideas with modern production in the genres of hip-hop and dance music. While I still enjoy creating this kind of music, my own compositions are now far more influenced by film and classical composers such as Thomas Newman, James NewtonHoward, Max Richter and Alexandre Desplat.

Frost Makes the Blade Stick

Jonathan Hamer

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