The Drift
Encyclopedia
Personnel
- Scott Walker – VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, HarmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
, SaxSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
, Sound Treatment - Hugh Burns – GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Ian Thomas – Drums
- Mark Warman – KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, OrchestrationOrchestrationOrchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...
, ConductingConductingConducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
, PercussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, WoodwindWoodwind instrumentA woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against a sharp edge or through a reed, causing the air within its resonator to vibrate...
, Sound Treatment - Philip SheppardPhilip Sheppard (musician)-Biography:Philip Sheppard trained in Cello and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, during which time he specialised in contemporary music. He worked closely with Hans Werner Henze, Sir Michael Tippett and Luciano Berio during this time as a founder member of The Kreutzer String Quartet...
– Orchestration, Conducting, CelloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is... - Alasdair Malloy – Percussion, Drums
- John GiblinJohn GiblinJohn Giblin is an internationally renowned session bassist who has worked with the following artists:*Eric Clapton, Sting, Mark Knopfler, Phil Collins * Peter Gabriel...
– BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... - Steve Pearce – Bass
- Peter Walsh – Sound Treatment, SitarSitarThe 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
, Percussion - Andrew Cronshaw – Woodwind, ConcertinaConcertinaA concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it...
- James StevensonJames Stevenson (musician)James Stevenson is a UK punk / rock guitarist, at one time appearing with The Alarm, Gene Loves Jezebel, Generation X and Chelsea.-Music career:...
– Guitar - Brian Gascoigne – Keyboards, Sound Treatment
- Thomas Bowes – ViolinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Vanessa Contenay-QuinonesVanessa QuinonesVanessa Contenay-Quinones is a London-based singer-songwriter....
– Vocals - Beverly Foster – Voice
- Pete Long – Sax
- Rohan Onraet – Percussion
- Lucy Painter – Vocals
- Rebecca Painter – Vocals
- Ralph Warman – Vocals
- Derek WatkinsDerek Watkins (trumpeter)Derek Watkins is a British trumpeter and session musician renowned for playing the trumpet and flugelhorn...
– FlugelhornFlugelhornThe flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
Nick Roberts
| Neil Tarlton
Chris West
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| Julian Tear
Ofer Falk
| Deborah Widdup
Alison Kelly
| Jane Fenton
Andrew Fuller
| Matthew Corman
Clare Tyack
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| Sophie Barber
Ben Buckton
| Clive Dobbins
Amanda Smith
| John Tunnell
Tamsy Kaner
| Roger Linley
Diane Clark
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| Clare Hoffman
Elizabeth Wexler
| Ulrike Kipp
Jo Godden
| Judith Herbert
Jackie Phillips
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| Karen Leishman
Matthew Scrivener
| Ruth Funnell
Sue Briscoe
| Robert Max
Roberto Sorrentino
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Session 2 | Violin I | Violin II | Cello | Bass |
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Michael Davis Paul Willey |
Steve Morris Simon Smith |
Alistair Blayden Nick Roberts |
Neil Tarlton Chris West |
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Julian Tear Ofer Falk |
Deborah Widdup Alison Kelly |
Jane Fenton Andrew Fuller |
Matthew Corman Clare Tyack |
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Sophie Barber Ben Buckton |
Clive Dobbins Amanda Smith |
John Tunnell Tamsy Kaner |
Roger Linley Diane Clark |
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Clare Hoffman Elizabeth Wexler |
Ulrike Kipp Jo Godden |
Judith Herbert Jackie Phillips |
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Ralph De Souza Robert Salter |
Charles Sewart Celia Sheen |
Jonathan Williams Joely Koos |
Production
- Produced By Scott Walker & Peter Walsh
- Engineers: Geoff Foster, Peter Walsh
- Mixing: Peter Walsh
Release history
Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue |
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United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
4AD 4AD 4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today... |
2×LP | CAD 2603 | |
CD | CAD 2603 CD | |||
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
4AD | CD | ||
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
Hostess | CD | HSE-20015 |
External links
- The Drift at the official 4AD site. Also "Jesse" video
- Album completion announcement at the official 4AD site.
- "Horrorpop!" - MomusMomus (artist)Nick Currie , more popularly known under the artist name Momus , is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired...
writes about The Drift. - Dan Warburton on The Drift