Geoff Smith (music composer)

Geoff Smith (born 1966) is a British music composer, writer, and academic. Along with his wife, singer Nicola Walker Smith (born 1964), he has written and recorded several pieces of contemporary classical music as well as published the 1995 book New Voices: American Composers Talk about Their Music (alternate title American Originals: Interviews with 25 Contemporary Composers).[1] His compositions have been described as "minimalist" and "pop classical"[2] and he's been compared to contemporaries Philip Glass and Steve Reich.[3]

Many of Smith's musical works take their lyric content from traditional English verse or English Romantic poets including Emily Brontë, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Elizabeth Siddal.

Smith is a former student of English composer/double bassist Gavin Bryars.

After fourteen years of inactivity a reformed Geoff Smith Band recorded several new tracks in early 2014 and made them available via SoundCloud. This latest incarnation of the group features Geoff (Piano & Keyboards), Nicola (Vocals), Adrian Utley (Guitars & Bass), James Woodrow (Guitar), and Clive Deamer (Drums).

Discography

Albums

  • Gas Food Lodging (Kitchenware, 1993)
  • 15 Wild Decembers (Sony Classical, 1995)
  • Black Flowers (Sony Classical, 1997)
  • Black Is the Colour (Bandcamp, 2014)

EPs

  • Six Wings (Blissout/Fifteen Wild Decembers/Possess Me/Six Wings of Bliss) (Sony Classical, 1995)
  • Six Wings of Bliss (Sound Factory Vocal Mix/Strings of Bliss/Sound Factory Vocal Dub/Voice in the Dark Mix) [remixes by Junior Vasquez and Ronnie Ventura] (Epic, 1995)
  • Six Wings of Bliss (New Remixes: Factory Mix/Tribal Dub/Indian Summer Mix/Far Removed Dub/Ambient Dub Edit) [remixes by Junior Vasquez and Ronnie Ventura] (Epic, 1995)

Other Recordings

  • The Garden [Nicola Walker Smith] (Kitchenware, 1991)
  • Spaces and Places [Simon Emmerson] (Sargasso, 2009)

References

  1. ↑ Webber, Brad (22 October 1995). "`A Curious Hybrid' Geoff Smith Mixes It Up". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Stewart, Andrew; Pride, Dominic (29 July 1995). "Stressing Smith's 'Wild' Side". Billboard: 1–2.
  3. ↑ Rowe, Matt. "Music Review: Geoff Smith '15 Wild Decembers'". MusicTAP. The Digital Bits. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
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