Landscapes, Knifes and Glue - Radiohead’s KID A Recycled (release 4th of June)
We are currently working hard on our next release: Landscapes, Knifes and Glue - Radiohead’s KID A Recycled
arr. Ian Anderson/Wooden Elephant
Wooden Elephant create totally acoustic versions of classic electronic-based albums, presenting them in their entirety as long-form contemporary classical compositions.
Kid A famously combined Radiohead’s alternative rock music of OK Computer with the electronic stylings of Warp Records artists to devastating effect. We wanted to pay tribute to this era-defining album on its 20th anniversary by introducing it to yet another genre of music — that of contemporary classical music — with all the changes that demands.
Wooden Elephant’s version of Kid A owes more to Radiohead than just source material: as part of the London Contemporary Orchestra, Wooden Elephant’s composer/violist Ian Anderson worked with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood on his contemporary string chamber music, culminating in a European tour, and playing on Radiohead’s latest album, A Moon Shaped Pool. These experiences went on to inspire the formation of Wooden Elephant: in our acoustic versions of electronic albums, we use many of the ideas and techniques that Jonny explored with the LCO, along with many more that we developed ourselves.
credits:
WOODEN ELEPHANT
Aoife Ní Bhriain violin, wine glass, milk frother with tissue
Hulda Jónsdóttir violin, vibrator, ankle bells
Ian Anderson viola, hand held fan with feathers
Stefan Hadjiev cello, arrow bow
Nikolai Matthews double bass
Music by Radiohead:
COLIN CHARLES GREENWOOD, JONATHAN RICHARD GUY GREENWOOD, THOMAS EDWARD YORKE, PHILIP JAMES SELWAY, and EDWARD JOHN O’BRIEN.
Published by WARNER/CHAPPELL MUSIC LTD. All rights reserved.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Johann Günther
Recorded at RecPublica Studio, Poland in January 2020
Artwork by Dan Abbott and Daniel Schnatterer
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The initial development of Backlash in the years 2018-20 was supported by the fellowship program #bebeethoven, a project of PODIUM Esslingen funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation, L-Bank and Land Baden-Württemberg.