Woodshed Creative: Si Waller, Dave Flindal, Jennifer Ward, Mike Calodoucas & Kin Cheah.
Influences
Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Radical Face, Colleen, Sixtoo, Elliott Smith, Kings of Convenience, Cage, Anticon, Kool G Rap, Lex, Air, Grant Green, The Postal Service, why?, Epic45, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Sigur Rós, Eels, De La Soul, Alias, Andrew Bird, B.Fleischmann, The Bad Plus, The Bees, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds, Bloc Party, Bonobo, Brendan Benson, Common, Cat Power, Controller7, The Cure, Eels, Fabienne Delsol, France Gall, Hotchip, Idlewild, Killers, Kinks, Krs-one, Maceo Parker, Manu Chao, Max Shedgley, Mishka, The Mountain Goats, Newton Faulkner, Nina Kinert, Nouvelle Vague, Paul Simon, Phoenix, The Postal Service, R.A. The Rugged Man, Ray Lamontagne, Red House Painters, Ride, Streets, Styrofoam, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Wax Poetic, Wu-Tang, Young Blood Brass Band, Radiohead, Explosions in the Sky, Cinematic Orchestra, Blockhead, Aphex Twin, The Doors, Martin Stephenson, Atmosphere, Quantic, Delakota, Lamb, Krush, Mr Scruff, Boards of Canada, Aesop Rock, velvet underground, Diesler, badly drawn boy, the shins, bright eyes, Ben Folds, Miles Davis, James Brown, bloc party, Astrud Gilberto, Alarm Will Sound, White Stripes, Beck, Stan Getz & João Gilberto, Björk, DJ Shadow, Curtis Mayfield, The Cure, Delakota, Funkadelic, Aim, Handsome Boy Modelling School, The Herbalizer, Herbie Hancock, Hope Sandoval, Jurassic 5, McEnroe, Múm, The Notwist, Prefuse 73, Rolling Stones, Skalpel, Telephone Jim Jesus, Xploding Plastix, Nick Drake, Four tet, The Meters, Amon Tobin, Serge Gainsbourg, Spiritualized, Buck65, Jason Mraz, 3eb, lemonheads, dangermouse, Telefon Tel Aviv.
From studios on 1 Wood Lane comes Woodshed Recordings. Woodshed is purely about good music regardless of genre or species - here we live in tree houses, employ sturgeon fish (which can adapt to salt water environments btw) and have a tendency to adopt wild Panthers.
The Virgil Sturgeon (hiphop)
From the streets of the Lower East Side New York, the City of Light and London Town come Daniel Jackson, Gabriel Mimouni and Simon Waller, who unite to form the Virgil Sturgeon – All three of these well worn journey men have been working on music since they could stutter, cry, and sometimes talk...Three different countries, three different people. Dan met Gab, Gab met Simon, Simon met Dan, and the three laughed and talked of Eq’s and LP’s.
Here you will be given the bait and tackle, rods and reels, wet suits, snorkels, flippers, and a single engine propeller motor boat to make this expedition a bit more Cousteau-ish. Peter Sellers has resurrected, and he told me to tell you all that we suspect everything, and we suspect nothing. What do you expect?
P for Panther (cinematic)
Salut! Simon Waller and Gabriel Mimouni join forces to create a fast paced cinematic blend of freshness, sprinkled with the dopest of drum beats/breaks and the most haunting of cello parts. Trumpets, guitars, pianos and other magnetic noises are thrown into their caldron of sound to push their music to supreme limits, that thrive with passion and burst with fruit flavour.
Si and Gab met in Paris, summer 2005 – they went on to record an EP in Paris, near the Bastille. They are currently composing music for a performance in a Parisian theatre.
Treehouse (ambient/experimental/acoustic)
Imagine sitting on a train, rattling through towns and cities, with your eyes firmly fixed on the world outside. Taking it all in, absorbing your surroundings. Treehouse is music for anyone who loves the vastness – It’s a soundtrack for moving landscapes and a perfect place to get lost.
Treehouse is available for work commission and always interested in collaborations or music composition for any medium - to get in touch email info@woodshedrecordings.com
The music has been used in short films, documentaries, exhibitions and advertising and has crossed the globe through Moscow, Rotterdam and Paris before heading home back to the UK for the launch of the first EP - The Nights Will Flame With Fire is currently in production and will be available on CD and MP3 download via the Woodshed shop very soon – dates to be confirmed.
Recline your seat, hit play, close your eyes and tune into this elegant, enigmatic sound...
