I had the pleasure of writing and recording the choral parts for Nils Frahms’s epic 2018 LP, ‘All Melody’. Nils and I worked on the music together in his Saal 3 studio in the Funkhaus, Berlin, before welcoming Shards to record ideas and gut-reactions over two visits.
Nils then forensically dissected these workshopped performances and wove them into the 75 minutes of musical contours which make up the landscape of ‘All Melody’.
Possibly Colliding
I first met Nils when we collaborated on some live music for his Possibly Colliding weekend at the Barbican, the same festival which caused Shards to exist. I added voices to his piece 'All Melody', a section of which would become ‘Momentum’ on his All Melody record, and we made a fun new work for choir and synths which will probably never be heard again… Some pics and reviews are below:
Singing and conducting with Nils and my <3 Shards
Barbican, July 2016