The Sophia Collective: Robin Proper-Sheppard, Jeffrey 'The Bear' Townsin, Jonathan 'Leather' Digby, Adam Franklin, Will Foster, Matthew Round, Calina de la Mare, Lawrence O' Keefe, Malcolm Campbell, Sarah Willson, Robert Spriggs, Ruth Gottlieb, Chris Koh, Sophie Sirota, Lucy Wilkins, Andrew Nice, Graham Miles, James Elkington, Dan Mulligan, Tim Cedar, Frank Ramsey, Andrew Blick, Stuart Wright, Nick Bergin, Simon Russell, Steve Hackett, Alzy, Matthew Ward, Alison Dods, Rick Koster, Helen Rathbone, Emma Black, Jenny Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Alice Pullen, Karen Fotherby, Malcolm Middleton, Stephen Jones, Melanie De Basio, Philip Lethen, Fuego and still there's more...
Influences
Listening:
Portishead - Third
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
David Bowie - Heroes
The Cure - 17 Seconds
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
The National - Boxer
Neil Young - On The Beach
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees (New)
Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House
Reading:
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne
The Penguin Guide to Punctuation
All Haruki Murakami...
Stuff:
'Anything too stupid to be said is sung' Voltaire
'When I haven't any blue I use red' Pablo Picasso
'I am a sick man... I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man' Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground
Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply “Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.” A Bear of Very Little Brain (A.A. Milne - Suggested reading: The Tao of Pooh)
Bruce Springsteen: Brilliant Disguise (And a short talk about life...)
This is a beautiful little duet The Boss sings with his wife Patti Scialfa.
It's taken from the VH1 series 'Storytellers'.
Daniel Lanois DVD: Here Is What Is.
Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno on the creation of Art ("Beautiful things sometimes grow out of shit...")
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Oh and this is a wonderful little Flash animation for the intro to 'Razorblades' by Marz. I love this. Especially the tear that falls down my cheek. So melodramatic. Just like me...
There Are No Goodbyes sounds better for my ears with each listening. And great artwork. If it weren't for the album cover that instantly got my eyes, I might have missed on the equally beautiful music.
I have received by mail "There are no goodbyes" right yesterday! Such a great surprise when i'm come back home after a hard day's work! So i listened to it all the evening (and i've finished in the middle of the night with the Valentine's day session bonus cd). The lyrics are very moving. The music it's truly wonderful. This is absolutely a masterpiece, very intense and fascinating! The bonus cd is just a review of how beautiful is the music you wrote in the past, with some tunes refreshed and brightened with a new light. Thank you Robin for another fantastic Sophia album! Hope to see you soon in Italy! Cheers
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