rhett brewer (composer, vocalist, engineer) pierre duplan (percussion-in the moment)
Sounds Like
Goldfrapp, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, Craig Armstrong, Bjork, Yann Tiersen, Lisa Gerrard, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, Ekova, Michael Nyman, Suzanne Vega, Wong Kar Wai, Ronan Quays, Preisner, Add N to X, Gotan Project, Jan Garbarek, Sheila Chandra, Enigma, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, This Mortal Coil, Harold Budd, Everything but the Girl, Tricky, Natacha Atlas, Nico, Moby, Francoise Hardy, The Carpenters
Inside Hotel de Ville, the rooms tell stories and the walls have ears. Cinematic and darkly seductive, Hotel de Ville is the musical vehicle of composer and vocalist Rhett Brewer. Taking inspiration from 60s French pop and film noir, Brewer blends dramatic soundscapes with down-tempo percussion.
Brewer's first album "The Ebbing Wings of Wisdom" was first introduced to the public by the BBC's Charlie Gillett. This debut followed the collaborative album "These Wings Without Feathers," which also features Lisa Gerrard and Elijah's Mantle. Soon after, Rhett began scoring films and even co-composed the soundtrack for the video game "Homeworld2".
Most recently, Brewer's music has been featured in the Touchstone Pictures series "The Path to 9/11" which was broadcast on ABC in the US and the BBC in the UK. Other recent film scores include music composed for the upcoming films "The Lot" and Tara Golden's "Peacewalker." Watch a clip here.
Beautiful music. I checked it out after last. fm pegged my stuff as being similar but this is considerably less bleak. It's uplifting in fact, and uplifting is good.
