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01. GRUFF RHYS - John Malcolm Brinnin
02. GRUFF RHYS - Set Fire To The Stars
03. GRUFF RHYS - After Hours/Panic
04. GRUFF RHYS - Tremble (Down)
05. GRUFF RHYS - Tremble To The Light
06. GRUFF RHYS - Tremble (Up)
07. GRUFF RHYS - After Hours/Tension
08. GRUFF RHYS - Log Cabin 1
09. GRUFF RHYS - Log Cabin 2
10. GRUFF RHYS - Log Cabin 3
11. GRUFF RHYS - John Adoring At Yale
12. GRUFF RHYS - Set Fire To The Strings
13. GRUFF RHYS - After Hours/Tender
14. GRUFF RHYS - John And The Poem
15. GRUFF RHYS - Chop Shop
16. GRUFF RHYS - Atom Bomb
17. GRUFF RHYS - After Hours/Contentment
18. GRUFF RHYS - Ticking Clock
19. GRUFF RHYS - Military Madness
20. GRUFF RHYS - Caitlin's Theme
21. GRUFF RHYS - Tremble (Joy)
22. GRUFF RHYS - Dylan's Demons
23. GRUFF RHYS - It Was Hot That Summer (featuring Elijah Wood)
ARTIST
TITLE
Set Fire To The Stars (Original Soundtrack)
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TN 093CD TN 093CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/30/2016

Gruff Rhys presents the soundtrack for the film Set Fire To The Stars (2014). Although recorded around the same time as Gruff's last LP (2014's hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and atomic age bop, it's a love letter to New York in all its hopeful, post war glory - a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruff's increasingly brilliant solo catalogue. Gruff on Set Fire To The Stars: "This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomas's first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm Brinnin. As the film is shot in black and white and set in the jazz age, I decided not to use any instruments unavailable in that era. I also kept the recordings as live takes. Beyond that - I didn't try and ape the style of that era in particular apart from the song 'Atom Bomb' which on screen, plays on a jukebox in a cafe and needed to be true to the year sonically and lyrically in some way. Playing the guitar, I formed a short lived 'Agro-Jazz' quartet (you got a problem with that?) called Video Loss with Chris Walmsley on drums, Jim Barr on double bass and Osian Gwynedd on piano. I wrote a bunch of songs and instrumentals. Some other bits were improvised to picture by Osian Gwynedd and myself. 'Chop Shop' features Video Loss on max Moon-Ra improvisational setting. Gruff ab Arwel arranged all the strings and Gavin Fitzjohn played and scored the brass. It was recorded and mixed at Toybox, Bristol by the incredible Ali Chant - apart from the strings which were recorded at Metropolis, London."