Some Some Unicorn is an experiment in communal music making.

Working on the border of composition and improvisation this work has drawn together 30 artists from the fields of improv, electronics, jazz, poetry and popular music. Some names you will know, some you don’t yet, but all have given time and talent to become Some Some Unicorn. 

Memories In A Frame

As part of my time as a New Voice composer, with Sound and Music, I produced an album Some Some Unicorn and The Golden Periphery. This was an experiment in group composition and large ensemble playing.

I created a series of audio sketches that were uploaded and available as backing tracks for musicians to play along to. The collection of contributions were then edited and a second version was uploaded for final ‘overdubs’ before I edited and mixed the finished album,

There are over 30 musicians on the album, most of who haven’t met, or even heard each other’s contributions. What started as my possible King Arthur on Ice moment actually became a really great, coherent album, which I’m very proud of.

This album is some of those original sketches, originally released on Classwar Karaoke, now brought to you via Clutter Music.

All the sketches were recorded live using just an iPad

Insults Can't Save You Now

short teaser of tracks that will be on the very rare lathe cut 10" that is being produced for our crowd funding campaign

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/unicornucopia

Lathe Preview

Want to be on the next Some Some Unicorn album? Then why not send us something for Sustained Peace, the opening of Unicornucopia.

Sustained Piece. (John Stevens misremembered by Shaun Blezard)

Send us a recording of yourself, or you and a group following the simple instructions.

On out breath make a single drone note. This can be voice or instrument but needs to be as steady as you can make it. You can choose any note but you must stick with it on the full out breath.

On the in breath rest.

Repeat for up to 5 minutes. (You can stick to the note or change)

Send as best quality as you can to info@shaunblezard.com – big files via wetransfer or dropbox please.

You will then be on the album - Rough mix of what we have so far is up

Sustained Peace (15 June 2016)

Lancaster Teaser

London Teaser

Salford Teaser

From the forthcoming album Unicornucopia

Players: Shaun Blezard, Stephen Grew, Phil Hargreaves, Anton Hunter, Keith Jafrate, Steve Lewis, Dirk Serries, Alexx O'Shea, Hervé Perez, Ian Simpson, Dave Tompkins, Kath Tyldesley, Mike Tyldesley

Unicornucopia

Simple Shrug

From the forthcoming album Unicornucopia

Players: Melaina Barnes, Shaun Blezard, John Cameron, Graham Dowdall, Simon Fox, Phil Hargreaves, Christine Lim, Judith Petty, Ali Rigg, Daniel James Ross, Richard Sanderson, Stephen Shiell, Becca Snow, Jake Stoddart, Ian Thompson, Keith Washington, Hannah White,  Phoebe Wright-Spinks

By The Thyme (Some Some)

Taken from the forthcoming album Unicornucopia

Players: Shaun Blezard, Maja Bugge, Paul Clark, Stephen Grew, Phil Hargreaves, Anton Hunter, Keith Jafrate, Steve Lewis, Alexx O'Shea, Hervé Perez, Ali Rigg, Matt Robinson, Ian Simpson, Dave Tompkins, Kath Tyldesley, Mike Tyldesley, Steve Varden 

Library Of Liberties

	

Some Some Unicorn is a large collective of like minded musical magpies under the laid back eye of composer and improviser Shaun Blezard. The band began during Shaun’s time as a New Voice composer with the British Music Collective and pulls in players from across genres that focus on improvisation and experimentation in their work.

The band has featured members of Hugs Bison, Breathing Space, Pere Ubu, Beats and Pieces Big Band, Roddart, Ripsaw Catfish, Wire Assembly, Inclusion Principle, World of Fox and many more and is never the same twice.

The sound of Some Some Unicorn is improvised around loose ideas from Shaun to create a big band free drone soundscape similar to the paths trodden by Godspeed! You Black Emperor and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble with an eye on the world of later period Talk Talk. The music flows around and between players, the audience and the room to become a journey in that particular time and space – though there are markers in free jazz, ambient electronics, free improve and the electric jazz experiments of the early 70’s all players bring their own influences to add to the melting pot.

Though players and poets come from a variety of backgrounds the heart of Some Some Unicorn is everyone's belief in community.

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