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An
accomplished musician, Paul Frith is a composer and performer.
Alongside a prolific solo career, Paul has played with the likes of
Broken Social Scene and Sufjan Stevens.
Paul
began writing and performing shows with his current band, “The
Considerate Lovers” in 2002. A year later Paul toured Europe
and the UK with US Folk Singer Sufjan Stevens, and on one occasion
after completing a tour with Stevens, Paul had the opportunity to gig
with a string quartet. Excited by this prospect, but with no musical
notation available, Paul scored his considerate Lovers set entirely
for strings over the course of a week, and the first performance was
the first time that either Paul or the audience were able to hear
these new arrangements. “The space was beautiful and your
set was beautiful… it was a real pleasure” –
Sufjan Stevens. This experience reaffirmed his passion for
composing and has had a profound effect on his career to date.
Since
then Paul has continued experimenting with the medium of strings and
orchestral arrangements most recently at the request of XL Recordings
who asked for a remix of Radiohead’s Reckoner to promote the
release of Radiohead’s stem mixes, a remix which has been
recommended by the nationwide Mercury Music Prize website for “the
originality of its arrangement”.
Paul
is currently is currently mixing an EP of songs recorded with his
string quartet, which should be available in the not too distant
future, and is set to record again later this year with Ian Grimble
(Whose production credits include The Manic Street Preachers and
Travis). Paul also runs an acoustic night called Wild Mooney
Ricketts, which is held at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden
each month, where he regularly performs with his band.
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