Rethink Your Mind video @ Abbey Road

We worked with Woodbury studios recently to produce the video for the single ‘I Feel Better When’.

Please have a read below for more information on Rethink Your Mind…

The rethinkyourmind project message is #IFeelBetterWhen so we created this music single to give everyone the chance to feel better! Watch the video of the song above recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios.

Being creative plays a big part in this, so we encourage people to express and share their #IFeelBetterWhen to inspire & uplift themselves & others.

Downloading the single on 1st December, will help us spread this message and provide comfort and hope to thousands more people across the country.

#IFeelBetterWhen Single Feat:

  • 150 strong #rethinkyourmindChoir led by Pippa Gearing, Lizzie Deane
  • Mark Morriss of 90’s chart topping band: the bluetones
  • BBC Folk Award Winner Lucy Ward
  • Mental health band refuge with Pete Hirst on lead vocals
  • Tara Pasveer winner from Peterborough Regional College

All these people came together because creativity supports their wellbeing & they believe in the rethinkyourmind resource: ‘The Yellow Book’.

This bright Yellow Book that says ‘I am free, please take me’ has provided comfort and hope to tens of thousands of people across the country already and with your help it can reach more and more!

The book was borne out of Project Creator: Pete Hirst’s own experiences of mental health challenges, his time spent on Mental Health Hospital wards & the impact this had on his family & friends.

Pete and partner Claire Evans, mindfulness practitioner & owner of The Centre of Wellbeing set up Develop Insite CIC in 2014 to sustain the project. In addition to the national Yellow Book, organisations can also use it as a personalised resource, we are proud to have created:

  • The PRC Yellow Book ~ with Peterborough Regional College
  • The LPT Yellow Book ~ with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
  • The HMP Leicester Yellow Book ~ with HM Prison Leicester

Now, with your help, let’s show the world that feeling better through creativity is an empowering route to being well – let’s shift the focus to wellbeing!

https://rethinkyourmind.co.uk/the-yellow-book/

 

 

credits..

#IFeelBetterWhen is being chart released on 1st December 2017. Help us #HitTheCharts and take mental wellbeing to no.1 Recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios The #rethinkyourmindChoir led by Pippa Gearing & Lizzie Deane with Matt Pallant on Piano, headed to Abbey Road Studios with us and project music artists Mark Morriss of 90’s chart topping band the bluetones, BBC Folk Award Winner Lucy Ward, Project Creator Pete Hirst from Mental Health Band Refuge and Tara Pasver of Peterborough Regional College. The song was written by ‘refuge’ who are Phil Seaman, rethinkyourmind project creator Pete Hirst & Sam Munton We send thanks to all the people that supported this amazing creation! ______________ Project Single Produced by Ross Simpson & Slavic Selin at www.woodburystudios.co.uk Project Single Mixed & Mastered by Simon Allen at www.woodburystudios.co.uk Video Produced by www.woodburystudios.co.uk Video Edited by Ben Sommers at www.smokenopony.biz Additional Video Content by Emma Fay and the team at Enter Edem www.emma-fay.co.uk www.enteredem.co.uk Abbey Road Photography Graham Instrall & Ben Sommers Choir parts developed by Adam Ellis at Deadline Studios www.deadlinestudios.co.uk Track Released on aRTy Records with Keith Dixon and Ross Simpson The rethinkyourmind.co.uk project! Creatively Expressing Wellbeing www.rethinkyourmind.co.uk

Video for Mary Epworth – ‘Surprise Yourself’

We’re very proud to have worked on the new single from Mary Epworth ‘Surprise Yourself’ (out now on Sunday Best).

Taken from the new album “Elytral” (Released 1st September 2017)

https://maryepworth.lnk.to/elytral Starring Eryl Lloyd Parry, Robert Lloyd Parry and Mary Epworth

Concept by Mary Epworth Directed, filmed and edited by Ben Sommers – Smoke No Pony http://www.smokenopony.biz

Produced by Mary Epworth, Michelle Hilborne and Ben Sommers

Production assistant: Will Twynham

Filmed in Cambridgeshire, England

To discover more about Robert Lloyd Parry and join his mailing list:

http://www.nunkie.co.uk

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Follow Mary Epworth:

https://www.facebook.com/maryepworth

https://twitter.com/maryepworth

https://www.instagram.com/maryeworth/

https://soundcloud.com/maryepworth

Russell Joslin & Sarah McCaig – ‘Shackles’ Video

NEW SINGLE – Russell Joslin & Sarah McCaig – ‘Shackles’

Please enjoy the new video for Shackles and if you like it, share it round. Thanks to Smoke No Pony for the filming and production and to Jacob Wheeler and Anna Scott for their wicked playing on drums and cello respectively.

 

The new album ‘Hey Mathematician’ is out 21st August.

You can download the song plus B-side ‘Never Met a Girl’ from the album sessions here: https://russelljoslin.bandcamp.com/album/shackles-single

 

 

Mary Epworth – ‘Me Swimming’ video released

Mary Epworth preps new album ‘Elytral’ — watch the “Me Swimming” video

from brooklynvegan.com
photo: Dean Chalkley
photo: Dean Chalkley

Mary Epworth will release her new album, Elytral, on September 1 via Sunday Best. For this one she headed Los Angeles to collaborate with producer Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Au Revoir Simone). The first single, “Me Swimming,” finds Epworth in darker waters, blippier, proggier and more unique than anything on her 2012 debut album. We’ve got the premiere of its video, directed by Ben Sommers and starring British actor Robert Lloyd Parry, who is known for portraying writer M. R. James, the master of the English ghost story, in one man shows. Says Mary:

For a song that is and isn’t about me swimming, I set myself the challenge of making a video that definitely didn’t feature me swimming! I focused on the insistent rhythmic nature of the track, and that set me off on a path that led somewhere rather unexpected . . .

I never expected the video to take on quite such an epic scale, and I love how filmic and widescreen the final cut is. Ben Sommers really knows how to frame a scene, and what we’ve ended up with really feels like a mini-movie.

Initially I imagined myself in the lead role, but once I had the idea of Robert Lloyd Parry taking that part, I couldn’t stop picturing it. This video features so many of my favourite things – beasts, landscape, Robert Lloyd Parry’s impeccable acting, and blackly comic pastoral horror.

Adds director Ben Sommers, “We began developing this video back in January and I feel so lucky to have worked on it, watching the ideas develop through to what you see here in the final edit. Nothing in my working history comes close to the pure joy (and the fear!) of spending a day with Robert Lloyd Parry – the man is a genius!” Watch the video below.

You can preorder Elytral now. Artwork and tracklist are below.

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Starring Robert Lloyd Parry and Mary Epworth
Concept by Mary Epworth
Directed, filmed and edited by Ben Sommers – Smoke No Pony www.smokenopony.biz
Produced by Mary Epworth, Michelle Hilborne and Ben Sommers
Choreography by Scott Simpson of Makin’ Steps Performing Arts
Dancers from Makin’ Steps Performing Arts School, Harlow, Essex
Peacock Spider footage by Michael DoeSpecial thanks to Luisa Ridge and Sunday Best, Oodles the dog, and the following shops in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire – Local Cafe, West End DIY and Hyperion Auctions.

Dancers: Marni Claridge, Tia Eke, Abbie Middleton Evans, Maddison Sarkies, Mackenzie Sarkies,
Bayley Summerfield, Kaila Teahan, Isabel Thornett, Brooke Turnstill

To discover more about Robert Lloyd Parry & join his mailing list:
www.nunkie.co.uk

elytral

 

Session recording with Paul Clarvis and Liam Noble

We’ve been working with Woodbury Studios again to produce this live session for Paul Clarvis and Liam Noble.

Paul Clarvis is an English percussionist,[1] born in Enfield, London, on 9 April 1963.

Paul brings his unique style of musicianship to many genres and as one of the most requested session musicians. Paul was the late Leonard Bernstein’s preferred percussionist in London and featured as a soloist on the last night of the Proms in 1996 in a concerto for saxophone and drum kit by Sir Harrison Birtwhistle. In 1998 he was chairman of the Percussion judges for the BBC Young Musician of the Year and together with Sonia Slany he started Villagelife Records.

Paul also helped Rick Smith with the drum arrangement for the London Olympics 2012 opening, writing Dame Evelyn Glennie’s part and together with Rick, devised how to train the 1000 drummers that stole the show on that opening ceremony!

The list of people Paul has worked with is a veritable ‘who’s who’ in the music world – from Mick Jagger, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Steve Swallow, Sir Harrison Birtwhistle, Sir John Dankworth to Sir Paul McCartney, John Taylor and Moondog, Gordon Beck, Bryan Ferry and Elton John. He has recorded with Marc Ribot, Sam Rivers, Richard Thompson, The Orb, John Adams, Michael Nyman, Loreena McKennitt, Mark Anthony Turnage and Michel Legrand as well as his own band Orquestra Mahatma.

He regularly holds gigs with Mose Allison and has also played with Nina Simone, Herbie Hancock and Ravi Shankar.

 

Paul’s playing can be heard on literally hundreds of films including Star Wars, all the Harry Potter films, all the Narnia films, all the Twilight films, the Dark Knight, the Constant Gardner, The Bourne Ultimatum, Burn After Reading, Shakespeare in Love, Fantastic Mr Fox, Billy Elliot, James Bond, Robin Hood, G.I Jane, Notting Hill, Tron, The Mummy, The Golden Compass, Bee Movie, Troy, State of Play, The Road, The Last King of Scotland, Spy Game, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Escapist, Captain America, Shrek, Hugo Cabret, Kung Fu Panda, and the Lord of the Rings, Prometheus, the Hobbit, Skyfall, Spectre, The Great Gatsby, to name just a few!

Paul had also worked on; Quills (band member: The Quills Specialist Band), The Cell (first percussion), The Miracle Maker (ethnic percussion), The Next Best Thing (percussion), The Darkest Light (percussion), Beautiful People (percussion), East Is East (drums and percussion), Heart (percussion), Beloved (featured musician), The Mighty (percussion), My Son the Fanatic (musician) and many more.