David McAlmont & Michael Nyman: The Glare

McAlmont, David, Michael Nyman Band

MNRCD 116

A most startling, beautiful and extraordinary record, The Glare brings together the music of Michael Nyman with David McAlmont's voice – one of the most praised instruments in British music. McAlmont explores pertinent subjects as varied as 21st century piracy ('Going to America'), trafficked prostitution in Europe ('City of Turin'), sexually-charged world leaders ('In Rai Don Giovanni'), assisted suicide ('Friendly Fire'), reality television ('The Glare'), African orphan migration ('Fever Sticks and Bones'), banking errors ('Take the Money and Run') and drug mules ('In Laos'). David felt strongly that the songs were most effective if written from the first person point of view of the individual characters discovered in the researched reports to create an emotional engagement with the subjects that is lost by the time their stories emerge in the glare of the 24 hour news media.
As a collaborator David McAlmont has worked not only with film composers such as Craig Armstrong, David Arnold and now Michael Nyman, but he has also performed and recorded with Courtney Pine, Terence Blanchard, Cyndi Lauper and Guy Barker. Most famously he created two memorable top 40 albums as one half of McAlmont and Butler, a partnership that yielded the unforgettable songs 'Yes', 'You Do' and 'Falling'. He has also had success as a songwriter writing with Gary Clarke, Boo Hewerdine, Tommy D, Pascal Gabriel, Craig Armstrong, Jools Holland; and with David Arnold and Don Black for KD Lang, the song 'Surrender' for 'Tomorrow Never Dies', and for Shirley Bassey

CD x 1

Michael Nyman Records

5.10.2009

814199010036