At the beginning of 2014, I began work on a new collaborative project, and released a number of tracks under the moniker 'Belleville. Here are the results.

My Productions as Belleville

The debut track from Belleville. 

"Could you forget? Would you put your heart there?"

Words and Music by Belleville

Capture

An instrumental inspired by the twilight hours. That dusky phase leading into the night-time, when anything can happen.


Slowfall

The third offering, an atmospheric incantation from Belleville. 

BELLEVILLE - CEREMONY

Awake I'm dreaming, I'm cold, cannot see
Paradise is lost, beyond me.
Your love was drifting from me
and I began to die slowly.

Got to find a way to save me.
some kind of ceremony.
I have a black heart here in the rain, again.

(Chorus)
Summon up the stars.
Drive away the dark.
A ceremony to save your heart

Holding on but slipping slowly.
Tears fall loudly, silver rain.
They say hell burns, so why am I freezing?
A story for the pain, tell me...

...how it goes that you can fly free?
Always thinking that you can come back to me. 
I hold my black heart here in the rain, again.

(Chorus)

I wrestle for your naked soul,
falling through the dark so cold.
It hurt alone in the underground,
a tunnel of love for the lost unfound.

The way I feel's like a loaded gun. 
I wanted to be the only one.
I'll face the rain, when the night turns dark.
A ceremony to save my heart.

Ceremony

Here is Belleville's version of this 'Of Montreal' track. 

There is also a video on youtube made using clips from the first ever colour film by Kodak in 1922, featuring famous actresses from the silent era. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9r6nxPZ74Y

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal

The Past Is A Grotesque Animal

Richard's previous band, @kites released their final track, 'Orwell Knows', just before singer and frontman Matthew moved to Germany. But Richard and Matthew, despite the separation, couldn't resist the chance to work together again. On a rare weekend return to London last year, Matthew recorded vocals to a captivating soundscape Richard had created.

The result: 'Where The Cherry Blossoms Grow', presents the reflections of a stranger living in a new country.

Where Cherry Blossoms Grow (feat. Matthew Phillips)

Richard Baldwin, aka Stakkr, has been writing, producing and remixing music for over a decade, developing a signature cinematic, synthwave style along the way. 

Between 2010 and 2013, he gigged extensively, co-writing, producing and playing keyboards with much lauded 'fop-pop' band 'Kites'.

At the beginning of 2014, Richard began work on a new collaborative project, and released two tracks under the moniker 'Belleville' as the year drew to a close.

An experienced DJ, Richard has also organised a number of regular, intimate club events in London's clubland.

A self-confessed addict of 1970s & 80s synthesizers and drum machines, Richard pulls his influences from early electronica, 80s film-scores, and dance music right up to the present day. Creating music in one way, shape or form, for many years, first using samplers and 16-bit computers in the 1990s, and later employing vintage synthesizers and drum machines, Richard began using softsynths in the early 2000s before returning to classic hardware over the last few years.

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