NEWS February 2012

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'50 Words For Snow', the brand new album of original material from Kate Bush, was released on November 21st 2011.

Comprising seven new tracks with a running time of over an hour, the album includes contributions from Elton John, Andy Fairweather Low, Stephen Fry and Steve Gadd, among many.

Stephen did some recording on the album, and mixed it in its entirety.

" ‘Fifty Words for Snow’ is a brilliant, magical album. With these beautiful songs we wanted to convey the feeling of snow and winter in the sound. The first song, ‘Snowflake’, which features voices and piano, introduces atmospheric elements of guitar, drums and orchestra along with occasional frozen moments of audio. This sets a shimmering soundscape that carries on into the album creating a unique and immersive listening experience. I’ve heard these songs hundreds of times, and they still move me deeply every time I hear them."

The track listing is:

Snowflake
Lake Tahoe
Misty
Wild Man
Snowed in at Wheeler Street
50 Words for Snow
Among Angels

Recorded by Del Palmer

Additional Recording by Stephen W Tayler

Mixed by Stephen W Tayler

The album entered the UK album charts at No. 5 on Sunday November 27th, 2011. The album has been widely reviewed and we will be posting some links here shortly. In the meantime, check out Fish People at katebush.com to see the latest animation "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe"'.

Kate has been nominated in the Best British Female Artist category for the 2012 BRIT Awards.

Kate Bush has released the new album “Director’s Cut” on her own label Fish People, in conjunction with EMI.

It entered at Number 2 in the UK Album chart.

On “Directors Cut” Kate revisits a selection of tracks from her albums “The Sensual World” and “The Red Shoes”, a process that presents a fascinating portrait of an artist in a constant state of evolution. She has re-recorded some elements whilst keeping the best musical performances of each song – making it something of a director’s cut but in sound, not vision.

Stephen mixed eight of the tracks on this album, as well as recording some of the guests.

Sadia and Stephen are contributing photographers to the latest edition of the photography publication DayFour ‘Ulysses 2’. They both participated in the original DayFour ‘Ulysses’ day in 2005, and were delighted to revisit the project in 2010. They are the only two contributors who interacted (photographically) with each other over the course of the day(s), which makes them unique among the photographers contributing to the project.

DayFour ‘Ulysses 2’ is now available.

The exhibition DayFour 'Ulysses 2' ran at theprintspace, London from December 3rd 2010 to January 2011.

footage of DayFour's Ulysses 2 opening night at printspace

Stephen has created audio-interactive visual pieces to accompany 25 songs for a live concert, (now released on DVD), a project that furthers his involvement with the moving image.

He says “I’m feeding various elements of audio into different ‘visualiser’ software programs, and I’m blending and cutting this material with other techniques, footage, and editing. What’s particularly interesting is that I’m producing the visual interpretation of songs on which I was the original recording and mixdown engineer. It’s not just about sound anymore.”

Stephen is mixing and editing many projects in his project studio.

“These days the artist can upload multitrack audio files, and I download them and work ‘remotely’ from my studio. I can then in turn upload my mixes in AAC format and email a link to the musicians and labels for approval. E-mixing is proving very popular and is extremely cost-effective” says Stephen.

Sadia has travelled to Liverpool, New York and Argentina, and is currently working on two new installation projects, as well as developing a new website.

Stephen recorded and mixed the debut album 'Dreamers' by Mattia De Luca with producer and guitarist Phil Palmer, as well as musicians Pino Palladino, Ian Thomas and Dave Hartley. The album was completed at Forward Studios in Grottaferrata, near Rome, Italy, in December 2009.

‘Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor’ is the latest film/hybrid art installation by the UK-resident Canadian-British artist Sadia Sadia.

Sadia commenced production on 'Metamorphoses' in Sydney, Australia in September 2009. More information as well as excerpts from the installation can now be found at the FILM MENU page.

left to right: Wakako Asano, Tom Gleeson and Sadia Sadia on the set, Sydney, Australia, September 2009.

Sadia was awarded a Studio 18 artists' residency, for international "contemporary visual artists pursuing an innovative practice in a professional capacity", at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne, Australia, during August and September 2009.

On September 4th she opened her studio to the public, to exhibit the first of the ‘ghosts’ from her 2009 work-in-progress ‘Noise’. "I have been building the 'ghosts' of information delivery, the 'entities' of the digital age" says Sadia. 'Noise', to date, comprises four single-channel installation works with soundfields, which can be shown either individually or collectively.

Sadia was also the recipient of a Project Grant from the British Council (Aus) to support her filmed multi-channel installation work ‘Metamorphoses in A Minor’, which was the subject of her Artists Talk (Sadia in conversation with Amita Kirpalani) at Gertrude on Tuesday September 22nd 2009.

The Tricycle Theatre ("Britain's leading political theatre" The Guardian) has screened 'The Noon Gun' as part of their season 'The Great Game: Aspects of Afghanistan' May 1st-10th 2009.

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‘San Francisco Redux No. 1’ has been screened as part of the Belfort Film Festival, France, November 23rd - 30th 2008, as well as Film Mutations, Zagreb, Croatia, November 30th - Dec. 5th 2008.

We are also delighted to announce that, with the support of the British Council, ‘The Noon Gun’ has had its Pakistani premiere as part of the World Performing Arts Festival, November 13th - 23rd 2008, in Lahore, Pakistan.

The original, eponymously titled 'EQUA' album, originally released in 1996, is at last available through iTunes.

For those of you who are new to this work, please find more information here.

The album includes the bonus remix of 'Departure - Durban Poison Mix' by Tricky

'San Francisco' and 'San Francisco:Redux No.1' have been screened at the Lussas Doc Film Festival 'Etats Generaux du Film Documentaire' in France on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st August 2008 as part of the programme 'On the Subject of Regrettable Searching - Body to Body, the Filmed Body' .

Sadia and Stephen are delighted to announce the world premiere of four new short films on Friday June 27th 2008 at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

La Cinémathèque is situated in Paris, and is housed in a building designed by Frank Gehry. It is home to the largest film archive in the world and has been described by Martin Scorcese as the "spiritual home of filmmakers worldwide".

Stephen spent 2007 recording and mixing in Italy, India and the US. In India he had the pleasure of recording some of India's top musicians at Yash Raj Film Studios in Mumbai, including Louiz Banks, Sheldon Shaun D'Silva, Niladri Kumar, and percussion maestro Sivamani, for an album by Mongolian singer-songwriter Nominjin. 

Stephen began 2008 by mixing an album at his studio in Wiltshire for singer-songwriter Clark Datchler, and remastering the titles for the Chimera Archives digital releases as well.

In September 2008 he mixed the 3 CD set of Howard Jones' 25th Anniversary concert, recorded at the indigO2 in London. Stephen also authored the DVD for this concert.

In December 2008 he has been working with Rupert Hine on the new Nolwenn Leroy album.

2009 has seen Stephen preparing compositions and soundscapes for Sadia's current installations, along with mixing and designing the sound for a feature film.

'The Noon Gun' was screened by Tolo TV, the most popular liberal TV station in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was also screened by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (the only service to broadcast inside the Bhutanese border) on July 26, 27 and 28, 2006.

It was shortlisted, along with 6 other films, for The Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Competition in London. Extracts from the entries were screened at the Award Ceremony held in the David Lean Room of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Piccadilly, London on the afternoon of Sunday 23rd April 2006.

'The Noon Gun' had its world premiere at the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival in 2004. It played to a packed theatre and was a resounding success. It was also shown at the 'Bite The Mango' Film Festival at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, September 2004. In 2005 it featured as part of 'Films From The South' Festival in Oslo, Norway.

'The Noon Gun' Quicktime trailer

The Sydney Dance Company has two works in their permanent repertoire ('Unwitting Sight' & 'Cradle Song') choreographed by Wakako Asano to music by S Sadia / S Tayler (EQUA). The photographs are from 'Cradle Song' (top) and 'Unwitting Sight' (bottom)

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Sadia is working on two new installation pieces, 'Twelve Short Films About Living and Dying', for which she has been shooting in Cambodia, as well as the second installment of the 'Memory of Water' trilogy.

'the Memory of Water', a video installation by S Sadia, has been acquired by ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) to form part of its permanent collection of exemplary works by Australian and international artists.-- It featured in the show 'PROOF: The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes', which ran until 13th February 2005. For more information, click on link above....

PROOF/ACMI QuickTime movie