Discografia 2017 ➞

Planets + Persona, the 2017 studio album from Richard Barbieri, is the most sonically expansive work to date from the former Japan and Porcupine Tree keyboard maestro. 

The album combines vintage analogue synthesisers with acoustic instrumentation, and incorporates Jazz elements, pitching Barbieri's unique sound designs against improvisations from a personally hand-picked group of guest musicians that includes Percy Jones, Luca Calabrese and Lisen Rylander Love. 

Recorded across Europe in studios in London, Italy and Sweden, Barbieri's third album is without doubt his most ambitious solo release to date. Highlighting the album's central theme of duality, the artwork on the 16 page booklet features photographic scenes of dramatic Icelandic landscapes. 

Mastered by Simon Heyworth

Studio Album, released in 2017

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Ice Pop (6:23)
2. The Random Fires (5:16)
3. Peripheral Vision (7:00)
4. The Love And The Affair (10:34)
5. Diamonds And Amnesia (5:18)
6. Incandescent (6:50)
 

 Line-up / Musicians

Samuel Hällkvist / guitars
Christian Saggese / Classical guitar
Katrine Amsler / keyboards, electronics
Mats Johanson / synthesizer, sampler, Theremin, musical box, treatments
Luca Calabrese / trumpet
Axel Croné / bass, clarinet, saxophone, flute, string arrangements
Kjell Severinsson / drums, percussion
Klas Assarsson / percussions, glockenspiel, vibes
Steve Hogarth (Marillion) / lead & backing vocals

And with:
Liesbeth Lambrecht / violin, viola
Pieter Lenaerts / double bass
Xerxes Andren / drums
John Anderberg / chorus vocals (4)
Anneli Nilsson / backing vocals (3)

CD Ataraxia ‎- ATX4CD (2017, Denmark)

The first in a series of releases over the coming months. It presents a chance to put together disparate pieces of music from past and current works that wouldn't fit easily with new album plans or concepts but which I feel deserved a release. 

The intention is to make a collectors box available later in the series of Variants releases. There will be an option to have the box autographed when it is available for order.

released September 29, 2017 

lsildurs Bane's well-received collaborative album with Steve Hogarth - Colours Not Found in Nature - the band immediately returned to the studio to make Off The Radar. 

Fans of Isildurs Bane will recognise Mats Johansson's distinctive compositional traits, while appreciating Off The Radar as something new in IB's 40 plus years of music making. 

1. Drive! Parts 1-3 (7:52)


2. Off the Radar (4:38)


3. Under Your New Moon (5:21)


4. Xenolith (10:05)


5. Goodbye Berlin (4:31)


6. Endless Air (5:51)


7. Uvertyr/Open (4:36)



Total Time 42:54

Katrine Amsler / keyboards, electronics

Klas Assarsson / percussion

Axel Croné / bass & woodwinds

Samuel Hällkvist / guitar

Mats Johansson / keyboards

Kjell Severinsson / drums

Luca Calabrese / trumpet

Christian Saggese / classical guitar

Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson) / drums

Release - November 25 2017 
Ataraxia Records 

Second in the Variants series, this extended EP includes two new Richard Barbieri tracks as well as three recorded live at

St Margarets Church of Antioch, Liverpool in September 2017. 

One of these live tracks "Antioch" was composed specially for the event and is previously unreleased in any form.

All tracks written and produced by Richard Barbieri and published by Orange Asylum Music. Administered by Universal Music Publishing Group. 

Mastered by Lee Fletcher (Unsung Productions) 

P & C 2018 RICHARD BARBIERI 

Art - detail from a work in progress 2017 by Samantha Keely Smith used with kind permission, Design - Bill Smith

Sophie Worthen - Spoken Words

Suzanne Barbieri - Sampled Voices

Lisen Rylander Löve - Voices, Electronics

Luca Calabrese - Trumpet, Electronics.

Richard Barbieri - Synthesisers, Keyboards

The Backing Track contained Percussion Programming and Bass Synthesisers by RB

Released January 29, 2018   

Tracks 1 -7 taken from live performance at St Michael & All Angels Church, Exeter (2017) 

Tracks 8 - 10 recorded live at Exeter Phoenix (Alexandrine album launch, 2015)

released May 25, 2018 

St Michael & All Angels Church (2017) 

Grice - vocals, guitars, loops, fx 

Duncan Chave - loops, treatments, eigenharp 

Luca Calabrese - trumpet 

Bel Ehresmann - bass, double bass, backing vcls 

Fred Ehresmann - Church organ/organ, electric piano, grand piano 

Exeter Phoenix (2015) 

Grice - vocals, guitars, loops 

Duncan Chave - loops, treatments, Eigenharp 

Al Swainger - bass guitar, pedal 

05Ric - drums 

Tracks 1 -7 taken from live performance at St Michael & All Angels Church in Exeter (2017) - recorded from the desk as a stereo audio file. (Live sound & recording by David Taylor) 

Tracks 8 - 10 recorded live at Exeter Phoenix (Alexandrine album launch, 2015) - (Live sound & recording by Rick Wolkers) 

Additional musical contributions courtesy of Richard Barbieri, BJ Cole, Raphael Ravenscroft, Lee Fletcher, Lisa Fletcher, Markus Reuter. 

All tracks edited and mixed by Grice & Duncan Chave at Sound Gallery studios. 

Tracks mastered by Duncan Chave at Sound Gallery studios. 

© 2018 GRICE 

℗ 2018 hungersleep records 

credits

released April 27, 2018. 

All tracks written and produced by Richard Barbieri and published by Orange Asylum Music. Administered by Universal Music Publishing Group. 

Mastered by Lee Fletcher (Unsung Productions)

https://richardbarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/variants-3

https://richardbarbieri.bandcamp.com/track/variants-4-teaser

https://richardbarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/variants-4

All tracks written and produced by Richard Barbieri and published by Orange Asylum Music. Administered by Universal Music Publishing Group. 

Mastered by Lee Fletcher (Unsung Productions) 

(P) 2018 RICHARD BARBIERI (C) 2018 RICHARD BARBIERI 

Art - detail from Thomas 2018 by Samantha Keely Smith used with kind permission, Design - Bill Smith

Wayne Horvitz - composition, conduction

Luca Calabrese - trumpet

Eric Boeren - trumpet

Massimiliano Milesi - soprano saxophone

Silke Eberhard - alto saxophone

Edoardo Marraffa - tenor saxophone

John Dikeman - baritone saxophone

Gerhard Gschlößl - trombone

Wolter Wierbos - trombone

Alex Ward - electric guitar and clarinet

Alexander Hawkins - piano

Danilo Gallo - double bass

Zeno De Rossi - drums

Recorded live the 4th October 2014

by Micha de Kanter, Bimhuis, Amsterdam.
Mixed and mastered June 2016 by Gianmaria Aprile, Argolab (Va).
Graphic design by Carlo Amico (Edizioni Zero).

'One Thousand Birds' is the 3rd album by art rock musician GRICE

‘One thousand Birds’ is a sweet winters symphony for the unconsoled, an iridescent sonic display of feathered strength and vulnerability solidified into 13 songs that breathe introspection. 

'If this is the Winter, we become the Spring'. G 

released March 22, 2019 

Music & Lyrics by GRICE 

GRICE: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboards, string arrangements, Ebow, sound design, programming 

Richard Barbieri: programming, synths on ‘One Thousand Birds’ 

Andrew Fred Ehresmann: piano, Hammond organ, keyboards 

Al Swainger: bass, double bass, French horn 

Marco Maggiore: drums 

Luca Calabrese: trumpet 

Duncan Chave: sampling and bird warping 

Greek lyrics written & spoken by Maria Peters on ‘Hardest to Reach’ 

Strings: 

Eliza Carew: Cello 

Steve Bingham: violin 

Brenda Stewart: viola 

Additional contributions: 

Steve Jansen: percussion 'La Foresta Assente' 

05Ric: drums 'La Foresta Assente' 

J M Peters: synth ‘Hardest to Reach’ & flute 'La Foresta Assente' 

Dave Costello: original bass loop concept ‘Hardest to Reach’ 

Lee Fletcher: treatments 'La Foresta Assente' 

Jack Lawrence: autoharp 'Letterbomb' 

Field recordings: 

Dawn Chorus, Birds & Storm recorded at Swanston House (Chudleigh, UK) in 1998 by GRICE. 

Thunderstorm recorded during Rain Tree Crow studio sessions in Studio Miraval, (France) by Richard Barbieri. 

Produced and arranged by GRICE 

Recorded by Duncan Chave & GRICE at Sound Gallery Studios (UK). 

Additional recording by Stefano Quarta at Forward Studios (Rome) 

Mixed by Stefano Quarta at Forward Studios (Rome) 

Mastered by Carmine Simeone at Forward Studios (Rome) 

Images: GRICE 

Design: Carl Glover 

Cover Image: 1000 Birds ©Helen Morse Palmer 1999 

The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by GRICE under exclusive licence to hungersleep productionswww.hungersleepproductions.com 

www.gricemusic.co.uk 

All rights of the owner of the recorded work reserved 

©2019 GRICE 

℗2019 GRICE