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Philip Clemo

Philip Clemo is a UK-based artist working in music, sound-design, film and live performance.

He has released 6 critically acclaimed albums, working with a diverse group of musicians and creating complex soundworlds that explore form, improvisation, sound-design, electronica and orchestration. His 7th album Through the Wave of Blue is released on November 1st, 2024.

Clemo performs internationally with his Dream Maps multi-media project with live band and mesmeric and interactive imagery. His work has been shown around the world, including at international film festivals and the V&A Museum and Eden Project in the UK.

His multi-sensory Breath Project, which he has presented in TEDx & TED talks in the UK & USA, explores our relationship with the diverse environments we inhabit. Breath, which has attracted the support of 5 UK universities and media industry leaders including Vision Research & Arri, captures extraordinary visual and sonic perspectives from the world all around us.

Clemo’s current projects include From Silence Into Song with the charity Shout at Cancer, exploring the destructive & healing legacies of radiation. It honours the trees that survived the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs and a choir of cancer survivors who learnt to sing after the removal of their voiceboxes. This collaboration has already manifested in live performances in the UK & internationally and will continue into galleries in 2024/25.

www.philipclemo.com www.seditionart.com/philip-clemo

Gear

Sound-design software

Guitars + pedalboard

Piano

Keys, electronics


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Philip Clemo: Dream Maps

Read "Dream Maps" reviewed by Roger Farbey


This is composer, multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker Philip Clemo's sixth album and the summation of nine pieces painstakingly developed over the course of three years. His music is essentially uncategorisable but, within a jazz context, could even be regarded as a new kind of third stream. Certainly there are elements within his compositions which allude to some of his influences such as the Cocteau Twins (especially Liz Fraser's sublime wordless vocals), Brian Eno, David Sylvian and undoubtedly Steve Reich.“Liberation" ...

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“STARTLINGLY ORIGINAL” **** The Observer

“MESMERISING” **** The Times

“IMMERSIVE” Mojo

“PROFOUNDLY BEAUTIFUL” Jazzwise

“UTTERLY TRANSFIXING” Prog Magazine

“HYPNOTIC” The Guardian

“COMPLETELY ADDICTIVE” The Wire

“TRANSCENDENT” **** BBC

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Through the Wave of...

All Colours Arts
2024

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Dream Maps

All Colours Arts
2016

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Mesmer

Igloo
2012

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The Rooms

Igloo
2008

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Ambiguous Dialogues

Dreyfus Jazz
2004

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