Artist: Loner
Title: Western Sci-Fi
Label: Just Music
Genre: Lo-Fi
Bitrate: 175kbit av.
Time: 00:46:58
Size: 62.09 mb
Rip Date: 2009-01-20
Str Date: 2009-03-30
1. Lights Which Pass 4:22
2. Show A Little Love 3:42
3. The Fire You Had 4:26
4. I'm Not Sorry 3:59
5. When The Party's Over 3:42
6. Supernatural 3:34
7. Already Numb 3:47
8. Without You 3:41
9. Flowers From Karlie 4:15
10. Black Dog 4:02
11. Soho 3:56
12. Farewell My Friend 3:32
Release Notes:
Loner is the sense of space you get surfing the web; the sense
of space you feel in a crowded train full of people talking on
phones you don't know. 'The mystery is gone in a crazy mixed
up world.'
Loner, AKA Geoff Smith, first started playing the piano aged 8
and his playing evolved under the tutelage of Louis Vause
(Transcopic Records), the renowned New Orleans Blues pianist.
A stint in the band De Capo, developed into more serious
playing, and at the age of 19 Geoff struck a publishing deal
for his exceptional songwriting talents. From there a deal
with Just Music and the road to Loner lay ahead.
Geoff's earliest musical influences include Prince, Tom Waits,
Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash - solitary artists
who reflect their own stories through lyrical story telling.
These artists provide the backdrop for Loner╥s own brand of
watching life pass by. 'Working in the pub is really settling
for me', says Geoff. 'It's the constant stream of new faces,
stories and the sense of life moving on around me-and I'm in
the middle standing still, watching and staying in one place'.
Piano understandably makes up the backbone of his work as
Loner. Yet electronic interference, fuzzy glitches, Binatone
samples and occasionally some choice beats and acoustic guitar
underpin the organic qualities of piano. In his earlier days
Loner would work only in solitude, earning him the hermitic
title.
However collaborations with a heap of respected musicians and
producers, both live and in the studio show that Geoff is just
as adept in partnership. Recent collaborations include various
projects with Tim Simenon, the hip hop/dance pioneer behind
Bomb The Bass - playing keyboards on the new Bomb The Bass
album to be released later this year, co-producing debut album
I.D. for the Icelandic artist Biggi and playing keyboards on
the Bomb the Bass remix for Primal Scream's 'Sometimes I Feel
So Lonely'. Loner is also a long time collaborator with Dot
Allison, writing material including her new single 'Thief of
Me' (Cooking Vinyl) and plays live keyboards for The Rakes.
This diversity and accomplished musicianship has earned Loner
massive plays across a diversity of radio shows from John
Kennedy on XFM right through to Classic FM. He even featured
in the penultimate episode of Sex And The City with his track
French Movie.