Just before the release of the album Buswell will be launching Stitched Shoes & an Irish Wristwatch live at Swindon Arts Centre November 29.
Typically for a Buswell project however, this is not going to be your average album launch event. After all, Shaun is the man who created the 68 piece 12.12.12 Underground Orchestra from strangers he met on the London,Underground, formed a 24 piece orchestra at the Edinburgh Fringe of 2014, and formed the Pilton Pop-Up Orchestra at Glastonbury 2015.
He also toured the country in 2015 and 2016 with partner in crime Erik Nyberg creating pop-up orchestras from sustainable, locally sourced musicians and earlier this year formed a 27 piece orchestra from strangers they met in Paris, writing and recording an album of 12 songs in 6 hours.
So, never one to make it easy for himself, for this outing Shaun has set himself a new challenge – to perform the new album live, in its entirety, recreating it using EVERY instrument recorded. That’s around 20 musicians performing a total of 144 individual parts in 45 minutes. If he misses one instrument, he fails the challenge. The consequences of that are yet to be calculated.
To make things harder, whilst the performance will involve some of the core group of musicians who performed on the album, due to the multiple layers and the fact the recordings were made over a number of years much of the orchestra will have to be formed from local musicians, sourced in the run up to the event…
Support for the show comes from very special guests Charlie Bath and Sun & The Rain Men.
Charlie Bath is a Wiltshire based singer-songwriter who has penned her own inimitable style that echoes all the best of the great Americana and Folk songwriting traditions. The warm alluring voice and words of honesty and grit leave her audience captivated time and time again.
Sun & the Rain Men are an indie folk pop band from Gothenburg. With over 150,000 plays on Spotify, the band were nominated for best new artist / band at the Denniz Pop awards 2014. The show at Swindon Arts Centre signifies the UK debut for the band.
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