OPERATION LIGHTFOOT feat Mimi Amore
Spider Eyes 

Written by Mimi Amore & Luke Moore
Recorded & mixed at Crosstown Studios, Liverpool. 


Vocals: Mimi Amore
Guitar/bass/synths/cello:  Luke Moore
Electric guitar: Jon Lawton

Spider Eyes

OPERATION LIGHTFOOT 
featuring Sophia Ben-Yousef
CHAINS      Released 27/10/15

Music & Lyrics by Luke Moore & Sophia Ben-Yousef
Recorded & mixed by Luke Alexander Hodgkinson
Mastered by Tony Draper

Vocals: Sophia Ben-Yousef
Guitar/piano/bass/cello: Luke Moore
Electric guitar/percussion: Luke Alexander Hodgkinson

Lyrics:

See the way that they hold themselves
Trapped within your game
See the way that they kiss and beg
Bound by your chains
Old and young, all the same
Dance to your tune
Softly spoken twisted words
Calling your name

Am I too late?  Too far gone?
Break these chains, leave your game.

Coins in palms and gritted teeth
Slaves and martyrs, all
Save their wealth but not themselves
Open cells await.
Fear and pain, forged with hate
Hold strong your heart.
Light and dark, choose your fate
Fight for your soul.

Am I too late?  Too far gone?
Break these chains, leave your game.

Chains feat. Sophia Ben-Yousef

Aerial View 
from "Peninsula", a collection of pieces inspired by Wirral's landscape, history and people. Commissioned by Wirral Festival of Firsts 2016.
credits
released December 14, 2016 
Composed by Luke Moore 
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Luke Hodgkinson 

featuring 
Mike Neary (12 string guitar) 
Emily McDaid (flugel) 
Dennis Foster (trumpet) 
Lara Simpson (violin) 
Luke Hodgkinson (electric guitar) 
Luke Moore (piano) 

Artwork adapted from a photo by Mike Robinson

Aerial View

Dóchas ("Hope", Old Irish) 
Music & lyrics written by Luke Moore 
Recorded, mixed & produced by Luke Alexander Hodgkinson 

Part of Midgård - commissioned by Wirral Festival of Firsts, 2014.

Dangle by a thread 
Adapt and change or lose it all 
There's a different path to tread 
If we don't rise above our ways, we fall, we fall. 

With another dawn chorus, there's hope 
After the sun has risen again, a chance to change 
Still hope 

The grey, a scar upon the Earth 
Glass and steel stretch for miles 
You have to ask, what is it worth? 
Is this the last of all our trials? 

With another dawn chorus, there's hope 
After the sun has risen again, it's a chance to change 
Still hope.

Mastered by Tony Draper 
Guest vocalist: Lauren Walker 
Piano, double bass, cello, glockenspiel: Luke Moore 
Guitars: Luke Alexander Hodgkinson 
Hang & untuned percussion: Chris Cousineau 
Violin: Lara Simpson 
Flute: Elise Jamissen 


Artwork: Luke Moore

Dóchas

In collaboration with LJMU Astrophysics Research Institute & commissioned by the European Week of Astronomy & Space Science.

Music composed by Luke Moore.
Poem by Rebecca Sowray.
Visuals by Jazamin Sinclair.
Recorded by Julian Taylor, Jonathon Hamer & Luke Hodgkinson. 
Mixed & mastered by Luke Hodgkinson.

featuring
Lara Simpson - violin
Alice Kirwan - harp
Luke Hodgkinson - electric guitar
Luke Moore - piano, cello, bass guitar, acoustic guitar

Alignments

Entropy

Sharks feat. Jo Bywater

Music by Luke Moore.  Lyrics by Jo Bywater.

Voice, harmonica, electric guitar: Jo Bywater
Acoustic guitar, synth bass, cello: Luke Moore
Violin: Lara Simpson
Electric guitar/effects: Jon Lawton

Recorded at Crosstown Studios, Liverpool.
Mixed by Jon Lawton.  Mastered by Tony Draper.

Sharks feat. Jo Bywater

Operation Lightfoot: Trans-Siberian feat. Dorothy Bird.

Written by 
Luke Moore & Dorothy Bird.

Recorded, mixed & mastered by 
Jon Lawton, Crosstown Studios, Liverpool.

Vocals, synth - Dorothy Bird.
Electric piano, bass guitar, acoustic guitar - Luke Moore.
Electric guitar, programming, percussion - Jon Lawton.
Violin - Lara Simpson.

Released on 2nd August 2019.

Trans-Siberian feat. Dorothy Bird

Of the Earth - a piece for Earth Day 2020

Music composed by Luke Moore.
Featuring a reading by Ewa Ladkowska.
Original text written by Meng Haoran, Wang Wei & Gustav Mahler.

Of the Earth was written & recorded on 23rd April 2020 to mark Earth Day.  The piece incorporates text from Mahler's six song symphonic work, Das Lied von Der Erde (The Song of the Earth), specifically the final movement, Der Abschied (The Farewell).  

Whilst the piece is a re-setting of the original text, this is spoken rather than sang.  The music does not borrow from Mahler's original work and is instead its own sparser reflection on the text.  Several of the lines resonate more when placed in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, during which time this piece was produced.

Text:
"The Universal Edition score of 1912 for Das Lied von der Erde shows Mahler's adapted text as follows. 

Der Bach singt voller Wohllaut durch das Dunkel.
Die Blumen blassen im Dämmerschein.
Die Erde atmet voll von Ruh' und Schlaf.
Alle Sehnsucht will nun träumen,
Die müden Menschen geh'n heimwärts,
Um im Schlaf vergess'nes Glück
Und Jugend neu zu lernen!
Die Vögel hocken still in ihren Zweigen.
Die Welt schläft ein!

Translation into English:
The brook sings out clear through the darkness.
The flowers pale in the twilight.
The earth breathes, in full rest and sleep.
All longing now becomes a dream.
Weary men traipse homeward
to sleep; forgotten happiness
and youth to rediscover.
The birds roost silent in their branches.
The world falls asleep."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Lied_von_der_Erde#Text

Of the Earth

Trans-Siberian feat. Dorothy Bird (strings version)

Written by Luke Moore & Dorothy Bird
Parts recorded remotely by the musicians
Mixed and mastered by Luke Moore

Vocal: Dorothy Bird
Violins: Helena Logah & Natalia Wierzbicka
Cello: Sophie Oliver
Piano: Luke Moore

Original artwork by Dorothy Bird
Strings version artwork retouched by Luke Moore

Trans-Siberian featuring Dorothy Bird (strings version)

Operation Lightfoot is an ongoing series of collaborations featuring guest songwriters and musicians.  The project's founder and artistic director is composer Luke Moore (soundcloud.com/lukemooremusic) .

In addition to several commissions to write new music, Operation Lightfoot are recording their debut album "Alignments" which features a range of artists from different genres.  With the emphasis as much on process - working outside a comfort zone - as the end result, each collaboration is an exciting and rewarding way of approaching songwriting.

Live performances regularly incorporate strings, brass and wind players alongside the regular band set up, blending music with a mixture of projections, visual artists, film makers, photographers and dancers, tailored to match each piece. 



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