Simon Fisher Turner
Symphony Of A Great City: Backing Track
Compact disc in digipak packaging. Limited edition of 250 copies. Simon Fisher Turner's Symphony of a Great City: Backing Track in autor's own words. This score was commissioned for the film “Symphony of a Great City” by Walther Ruttmann. The musicians I choose to perform it with were Klara Lewis and Rainier Lericolais. I made the backing track using tones and pitches from MARX on Abletone Live. I then sent Klara and Rainier all my home recordings through the years I made when visiting Berlin, …
New Modern Music For Political Documentaries
Compact disc in digipak packaging. Limited edition of 250 copies. Simon Fisher Turner's New Modern Music For Political Documentaries is a series of soundscapes intended for both general listening and more so as a utility. A sort of library music for use by filmmakers to fill the sonic void in their visual work. Turner highly encourages sampling, editing, processing and manipulation as the user sees fit. Simon Fisher Turner is an English musician and difficult cat to pill. His acting career began…
Care
Editions Mego is proud to present the first outing from the legendary English musician, songwriter, composer and producer Simon Fisher Turner alongside the highly acclaimed emerging Swedish sound artist Klara Lewis. Care is a unique outing rife with delicious dichotomy. The opening track positions the aggressive directly against more fragile moments. On the subsequent track medieval melodies sprout from a dense rhythmic hiss. Witness a Middle Eastern song appearing amongst a haunted rattling rev…
Picture From Darkness
*2022 stock. 300 copies limited edition* All electronic music is composed and played by Sft, with Lucy Railton on the cello, and this was recorded by Lucy herself in Berlin on August 21st 2016. Heather Leigh plays laptop steel guitar, and this was recorded by Sft at her soundcheck in North London at the Café Oto on the 9th January 2016. The underground air conditioning unit was recorded at Birthdays London 3rd November 2014 during an interval for a concert by Klara Lewis. The rain storm and umbr…
Derek Jarman Super8 - Soundtracks For Derek Jarman
A stunning set of music created by Simon Fisher Turner in 2010 as soundtrack to some of the early Super8 movies directed by Derek Jarman, released in an uncoated cardboard DVD-sized tri-fold digipack. Room 1 is processed by Simon Fisher Turner from sound sources from Terre’s Neu Wuss Fusion (a.k.a. Terre Thaemlitz), A Crippled Left Wing Soars With the Right (Steal This Record Remix by DJ Sprinkles) courtesy of Comatonse Recordings. Included in this piece is a recording of Jarman talking and stud…
Savage Songs of Brutality and Food. By the Extreme Angels of Parody
The worlds of sound art and child-rearing collide on an album of children's songs and chants collaged and transformed by Simon Fisher Turner
Life Recordings From Prospect Cottage and the Ness
**126 copies** The life recordings on this C40 cassette are raw, unedited transfers from Dungeness made with a Sony Walkman Professional WM-D6 by Simon Fisher Turner. With the voice of Derek Jarman recorded on 20 June 1992 in his cottage as he begins to write Chroma, and sounds from around the nuclear power station in the fifth corner at the end of the globe.From child actor to teenage pop idol, from self-confessed “extreme sound freak” to acclaimed solo recording artist, Simon Fisher Turner’s c…
Giraffe
Editions Mego present the latest opus from legendary British composer, actor, sound designer and all-round fine human, Simon Fisher Turner. Giraffe is a new major work which blurs the lines between sound design and song, machine severity and narrative sentimentality. Subtitled "Living In Sounds And Music", Giraffe takes the listener through a vast journey where an abstract clacking of unknown origin rubs up against a melancholic electronic sequence. "Life sounds" were captured with a portab…
Shishapangma EP
Terre Thaemlitz's Comatonse Recordings presents a cut from English polymath Simon Fisher Turner's 2013 soundtrack to the 1924 film The Epic of Everest. Turner's windswept, quietly pulsating "Shishapangma" is another iterations of a long and colorful oeuvre that has seen him work with an early incarnation of The The, Derek Jarman, and the Portsmouth Sinfonia, not to mention a career in acting that made him a teenage star in the '70s. DJ Sprinkles's gently sub-fueled "Deeperama" mix teases the …
Ghosts of Industrial Sunday
Here comes a new welcome entry in the ‘private sounds’ series of the now growing 13 catalogue. "Ghosts of Industrial Sunday" is a short film by Maria Assunta Karini and Francesco Paolo Paladino, whose music were composed by Simon Fisher Turner. This release consists of a video DVD, which contains the film, and a audio CD that features the original soundtrack and other compositions inspired by this project that Turner created on purpose; they are accompanied by an oversize 20 pages booklet that o…
The Great White Silence
As a soundtrack, The Great White Silence probably exceeded everyone's highest expectations, as it manages to be sublime and deeply emotionally resonant without ever becoming too forceful. In fact, it may very well be a masterpiece, though I won't know for certain until the film gets a US release. As a decontextualized album, it is a bit flawed solely because it has been removed from its intended purpose as part of a larger whole. There are a number of passages that I absolutely love, but they…
De Dentro Hacia Afuera
This is a cassette-only limited edition of 250 copies. From child actor to teenage pop idol, from self-confessed "extreme sound freak" to acclaimed solo recording artist, the UK-based Simon Turner Fisher's career has been nothing if not varied. His early acting credits included film and TV roles from Black Beauty to The Big Sleep (re-made with Robert Mitchum). At the same time, he was fronting various '70s pop acts, and at the age of 17, was signed to Jonathan King's UK Records, releasing his fi…