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Peaky Blinders: Season 5 & 6 (Original Score)

    Anna Calvi’s captivating and atmospheric compositions, her first foray into scores, for seasons 5 and 6 of Peaky Blinders, the BBC’s record-breaking TV show, will now be released via Domino Soundtracks. Peaky Blinders: Season 5 & 6 (Original Score) comprises 37 tracks over the course of a double LP.

    Talking about her work on the score, Calvi says “Composing for Peaky Blinders was about atmosphere and space. There’s so much nuance when it comes to scoring to picture. It’s more about what you leave out than what you leave in. I had to let the voice of the actors do the talking but find ways of bringing out the emotion within that. I became completely obsessed with Tommy Shelby, I dreamt about him every night whilst I was working on the scores, I had to really inhabit the show.” 

    TRACK LISTING

    1. You're Not God
    2. Tommy's Requiem #1
    3. Tommy's Plan
    4. Death Is A Kindness
    5. Black Tuesday
    6. I Don't Like The Life
    7. Moseley #1
    8. Ruby's Birthday
    9. Grace
    10. There Ain't No Grave
    11. We Don't Like The Life
    12. The Execution
    13. Do What The Voices Tell You
    14. Moseley #2
    15. Retribution
    16. Reckoning
    17. Tommy's Requiem #2
    18. Miquelon
    19. Esme
    20. Under The Maple Tree
    21. Gina
    22. Ain’t No Grave
    23. The Sanatorium
    24. Mosley
    25. Where Will You Go
    26. Pledge Your Allegiance
    27. Arthur
    28. Esme’s Dream
    29. Ruby Has A Fever
    30. Jail And Perfume
    31. Michael’s Plan
    32. Red Right Hand
    33. The Eleventh Hour
    34. Opium
    35. Goodbye Billy
    36. Legacy
    37. Tommy’s Final Requiem

    Anna Calvi

    Anna Calvi (10th Anniversary Edition)

      Anna Calvi will release a 10-year Anniversary edition of her self-titled debut album via Domino. An astonishingly confident record; ‘Anna Calvi’ showcases the unique strengths of her songwriting, singing and virtuoso guitar-playing, all jumping out of the speaker together. Calvi drew on the ghosts of Nina Simone and Maria Callas for influence to create a stunningly modern sound.

      To date, Anna Calvi has released three studio albums (‘Anna Calvi’, ‘One Breath’ and ‘Hunter’), a collaborative EP with David Byrne (‘Strange Weather’) and the most recent ‘Hunted’, a seven-track reworking of ‘Hunter’. Additionally, Calvi wrote and performed the score for Season 5 of BBC One’s Peaky Blinders and wrote the music for the opera The Sandman, directed by Robert Wilson.

      Anna is the first solo artist to achieve three consecutive Mercury Prize nominations and has also received a Brit Award nomination. Throughout her career, Calvi has worked with Brian Eno, Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Dave Okumu (The Invisible), Johnny Flynn, Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Courtney Barnett.

      The LP, which includes the likes of ‘Desire’, ‘Blackout’, ‘Rider To The Sea’ and ‘Suzanne And I’, is reissued for the first time, available to independent retailers on deluxe red vinyl. It also features brand new cover artwork and an 8-page booklet containing previously unseen photographs, plus digital download code.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Rider To The Sea
      2. No More Words
      3. Desire
      4. Suzanne And I
      5. First We Kiss
      6. The Devil
      7. Blackout
      9. I’ll Be Your Man
      10. Morning Light
      11. Love Won’t Be Leaving

      Anna Calvi

      Hunted

        In the summer of 2018, Anna Calvi released her third album Hunter. On the album, she explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity. Following a stellar 18 months, which saw Calvi write her first television score (for Peaky Blinders) and receive her third consecutive Mercury Prize nomination (the first solo artist to achieve this feat), Calvi has now crafted a stunning reworking of Hunter into Hunted. Revisiting her first recordings for Hunter, Calvi found they offered an intimate and private view of the songs’ initial intentions. Distilled to their bare essence on Hunted: her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals, Calvi then asked Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter to collaborate with her and further transform the songs.

        On Hunted, Calvi said, “During a break from touring I went back and listened to the first recordings I ever made of ‘Hunter’. These recordings capture the very moment I first wrote these songs, and recorded them on my own, in my attic studio. I find something especially intimate about sharing these most private recordings with my favourite singers and asking them to lend their voices and artistic sensibility. Courtney Barnett is an amazing artist. Her voice and guitar playing together are mind blowing. Her ability to connect the profound to the smallest moments of human experience is the unique talent of a true artist.”

        On working together, Barnett said, “Anna is a completely awe-inspiring performer, it’s impossible to take your eyes off her onstage. I love her songwriting for its beautiful and perfect balance between aggression and tenderness.” More raw-sounding than their original incarnations, the tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the innate fragility of the compositions to the forefront and exquisitely melds together the dichotomy of the hunter and the hunted, the primal and the beautiful, the vulnerable and the strong.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: The superb turnaround of Anna Calvi's 2018 LP 'Hunter' into 'Hunted' sees Calvi collaborating with a selection of some of the greatest names in modern indie music, and adds futher gravitas to the stunningly written and brilliantly performed pieces on show. Deep and soulful, swimming with gothcic drive and singularly enchanting, this is a perfect companion or a wonderful listen on it's own.

        TRACK LISTING

        Swimming Pool (feat. Julia Holter)
        Hunter
        Eden (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg)
        Away
        Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy (feat. Courtney Barnett)
        Wish (feat. Joe Talbot/IDLES)
        Indies Or Paradise

        Anna Calvi

        Hunter

        Hunter, the third album from Anna Calvi, is the embodiment of the feeling of truly letting go. For the art-rock singer-songwriter it was a catharsis, and an opportunity to be more truthful than she ever had been been before. Revered in the British music industry since she emerged in 2011 (BRIT Award and twice Mercury Prize nominated), she has teamed up with esteemed producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Grinderman), Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Martyn Casey (The Bad Seeds) to bring this galvanising record to life.

        Hunter is an album of visceral guitars and vocals, exploring sexualityand breaking the laws of gender conformity. Passionate subject matter calls for passionate delivery, and on Hunter, Calvi pushes the limits of her guitar and her voice beyond anything she’s recorded before. It was important to Calvi that the record was as vulnerable as it is strong; as beautiful as it is ugly. To be the hunter and the hunted.


        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: Calvi is at once arresting and mesmerising, mixing evocative gothic symphonics and soaring melodic waves with a brittle undercurrent, flipping from shimmering synth pop to dark bubbling ambient in the blink of an eye. As immediately appreciable musically as it is conceptually exceptional.

        TRACK LISTING

        01. As A Man
        02. Hunter
        03. Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy
        04. Indies Or Paradise
        05. Swimming Pool
        06. Alpha
        07. Chain
        08. Wish
        09. Away
        10. Eden 

        Anna Calvi

        One Breath

          The second studio album from Mercury-nominated UK artist Anna Calvi.

          Following on from her self titled, critically acclaimed, Top 40 debut, ‘One Breath’ is a bold, confident progression in terms of textures and emotion.

          Produced by John Congleton at Blackbox Studios, France and mixed in Texas.

          Ann Calvi’s debut for Domino is set to be one of the most talked about records of next year.

          Brian Eno has championed her as the most visionary female artiste since Patti Smith, Nick Cave has just taken her out around Europe as special guest of Grinderman, and Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey’s right hand studio man) has produced the music.

          An inspired guitarist influenced by Django Reinhardt as much as Jimi Hendrix, and with vocals inspired by Nina Simone and Mariah Callas, Anna Calvi’s music is a passionate and incredibly original mix.

          The live shows with her permanent three piece band are already wowing audiences across the land.

          STAFF COMMENTS

          Andy says: Ridiculously striking, powerful debut, seemingly from nowhere. If you like all the influences mentioned below, and throw in a bit of gothiness (now apparently ok to like and reference!?) and even early rock 'n'roll, then you're going to love this record.


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