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'''Philip Clemo''' is a British [[musician]]. |
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| name = Philip Clemo |
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| caption = Philip Clemo, Glasgow 2012 by Colin Gray |
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| birth_name = Philip James Clemo |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|08|03}} |
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| birth_place = Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
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| genre = Classical, [[jazz]], atmospheric, experimental, [[rock music|rock]] |
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| occupation = Composer, film-maker |
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| instrument = Voice, [[guitar]], [[piano]], keyboards |
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| label = All Colours Arts, Metier |
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| website = {{URL|www.philipclemo.com}} |
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'''Philip Clemo''' is a British [[musician]], [[composer]], [[record producer]], [[sound artist]] and [[film-maker]]. |
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==Early life== |
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Philip James Clemo was born on 3 August 1964 in [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Scotland]]. He moved to [[London]] in 1982, where he has lived until 2011 apart from a year in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] in the mid-1990s. He now lives in East Sussex in southern England. His musical education began as a teenager when he took [[guitar]] lessons from Scottish singer-songwriter Iain MacDonald, who went on to release two albums in the mid-80s. |
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==Career== |
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===Music=== |
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====Creative process==== |
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Clemo's music crosses genres between [[jazz]], [[post-rock]], [[contemporary classical]] and [[electronica]]. In the studio he builds complex textures and develops them through a process of composition and improvisation, with contributions from a diverse group of musicians. He also extensively weaves in field recordings made in locations such as Delhi streets, Malaysian rainforests, Sydney building sites, Icelandic mud pools and a glass and metal workshops. |
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====Collaborative work==== |
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Clemo worked on his debut album, Inhale the Colours, while living in Sydney in 1996/97. The album was released under the name Sound, in 1997, featuring contributions from eleven musicians, notably [[Ysanne Spevack]], aka Mee, on violin and vocals, who shared composition credits with Clemo. A second album with Spevack, Soundzero, was completed in 1999 and was released in March 2009. Both albums featured, amongst others, Phil Slater on trumpet, and Tarlochan (Bobby) Singh on tabla with the British rhythm section of Mark Sanders (drums), John Edwards (double bass) and [[Pete Lockett]] (percussion) joining on the Soundzero album. Australian vocalist Royce Doherty (Kiva) guested on three tracks on Inhale the Colours (with the track Fade being co-produced by Australian producer Roy Nicholson), while Jazz singer [[Cleveland Watkiss]], often heavily processed, made a guest appearance on Soundzero. |
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====Solo work==== |
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Philip Clemo's third album, Ambiguous Dialogues, was released in 2004 on Metier Jazz. It was the first released under his own name and featured 12 musicians, including Sanders, Edwards and Lockett as [[rhythm section]] with [[Clive Bell]] (reeds) and Tom Chant (soprano [[saxophone]] and [[bass clarinet]]). |
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In October 2008, Clemo released his fourth album, The Rooms, a musical progression through different sound "rooms" or "spaces" featuring 22 musicians such as Clive Bell, [[Theo Travis]] (saxophone and [[flute]]), Simon Hopkins ([[electric guitar]]), [[B.J. Cole|B.J Cole]] (pedal steel), [[Henry Lowther]] (trumpet and flugelhorn) and a [[Prague]] [[string quartet]]. Clemo credits veteran sound engineer Phill Brown, who has worked with [[Jimi Hendrix]] and [[Bob Marley]] among others, for his invaluable contribution to the recording process of The Rooms. |
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Philip Clemo's 5th album Mesmer was released on 1st october 2012, with contributions from 14 musicians including Kevin Pollard (piano), B J Cole (pedal steel), Byron Wallen (trumpet and flugelhorn), Oren Marshall (tuba), Emily Burridge (cello) and Thomas Bloch (glass harmonica, crystal baschet and ondes martenot). |
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===Film-making=== |
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Since 1989, Philip Clemo has made several [[short films]] shot in locations around the world, including [[India]], [[Vietnam]], [[Australia]] and [[Iceland]]. He filmed his first major project, 'The Air Holds Still On My Breath - The Iceland Journey', in the Summer of 2008. The film, a series of [[abstract art|abstract]] 'mood paintings' to music from The Rooms was shot using specialist camera technology to capture extreme slow motion details of geothermal activity and waterfalls, and from the air using a gyro-stabilised camera mounted on a [[helicopter]]. The Icelandic film project has now grown into a larger feature film project 'Breath: Symphony of the Senses'. Breath, which is in development, presents new perspectives on landscapes from around the world. It maps the human journey from birth to death, and beyond, and explores a parallel journey from sleepwalking to awakening. The dramas of human life are illustrated through the metaphors of landscape and climate, and the human body is explored as a virtual landscape, including in extreme close up and on a specially developed ‘energy field’ camera. The film also explores the terrains of micro ‘landscapes’ through the use of unique high magnification microscopic systems. |
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Philip Clemo uses video projections of his film work extensively in his live performances. |
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==Discography== |
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* ''Sound - Inhale the Colours'', 1997, with Mee ([[Ysanne Spevack]]) |
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* ''soundzero'', 1999 (but only released in 2008), with [[Ysanne Spevack]] |
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* ''Ambiguous Dialogues'', 2004 |
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* ''The Rooms'', 2008 |
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* ''Mesmer'', 2012 |
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==Filmography== |
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* ''Box In The Sun'', 1990 |
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* ''From the Morning On'', 1990 |
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* ''Objects and Observations'', 1993 |
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* ''Thieves - Unworthy promo'', 1994 |
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* ''An Altered Perspective (Journeys in the East)'', 1995 |
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* ''Metal On Water'', 1999 |
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* ''Separated by Shadows (shown during 2005/6 UK tour)'', 2005 |
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* ''The Air Holds Still On My Breath (Iceland Journey)'', 2009 |
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* ''Melt'', 2009 |
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* ''Sigur Rós - Fjögur Píanó'', 2012 |
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* ''The Mesmer vignettes'', 2012 |
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* ''Return'', 2013 |
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* ''Breath (Journeys Through the Landscapes of Life)'' (in development), 2014 |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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Paul Tingen interview with Philip Clemo |
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http://www.tingen.co.uk |
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Philip Clemo website |
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www.philipclemo.com |
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Proper Music Distribution |
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www.propermusic.com/product-details/Philip-Clemo-Mesmer-144514 |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.philipclemo.com/ Official Website] |
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* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=17571 Profile] written by Chris Fortescue |
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Philip Clemo is a British musician.