Please can you tell us about your new album and UK album launch?
Through the Wave of Blue, my seventh studio album, is an intimate journey through profound adversity, tracing a path from the raw disorientation and fear surrounding my youngest daughter’s serious illness to a fragile yet bright relief in her recovery.
Each composition unfolds as a unique sonic experience, with complex atmospheres layered with brass, woodwind, strings, guitar, piano, electronics, and hypnotic rhythms. I draw from electronica, electric jazz, post-rock, progressive rock, krautrock, and contemporary classical to create soundscapes that speak to resilience. Guest musicians include Arve Henriksen and Theo Travis.
The album is released on 1st of November in digital, CD and limited-edition double blue vinyl. I will be performing live in support of the album in 2025.
What other projects are you currently involved in?
As well as being a composer and sound-designer I also work in digital art and film-making. I am currently working on a range of film and multimedia projects including ‘From Silence Into Song’, a collaboration with the charity Shout at Cancer. This project honours the survivor trees of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with recordings made from trees at the exact time the atomic bombs had been dropped 75 years earlier. More info here… https://philipclemo.com/fromsilenceintosong/
What are you currently listening to and what was the last CD or download you bought?
I am currently listening to a range of artists including The Smile, Brendan Eder Ensemble, Oren Ambarchi, Anouar Brahem, Thomas Strønen, Theo Travis & Robert Fripp, Owen Pallett and Joni Mitchell. Last record I bought was probably Brendan Eder Ensemble’s ‘Therapy’.
What is your all-time favourite album and why?
Coming up with one is just too hard so I’ll give you three!
‘Panthalassa’ (Bill Laswell’s re-visiting of Miles Davis’ first electric period – 1968-75. I love the crossovers of groove-based music with experimental jazz. And extraordinary playing.)
Arvo Pärt -Tabula Rasa (sublime orchestration and musicianship)
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock (a masterpiece of sonic investigation and the use of studio as an instrument)
Who has caught you attention recently that we should be listening out for?
I really like the brass minimalism of the Brendan Eder Ensemble’s ‘Therapy’ and I’m enjoying the stripped-down prog vibe of The Smile.
