Always hard to catagorise, Bob's music includes influences from extensive travels in Africa and Asia, and ranges from intense walls of percussive drumming - as on his cult club classic ' African Drug ' - to delicate atmospheric soundscapes, such as the beautiful ' Looking Back ' - a track recorded for the ' Sanscapes ' project to highlight the plight of the Kalahari Bushmen.
Bob Holroyd's music has a very cinematic quality to it, and as a result has been used on a variety of television programmes. In 1988 he was commissioned to write for Chappell Recorded Music Library, and to date he has recorded 16 albums for them. He won the STEMRA Music Award for 'Best Soundtrack on a Corporate Audio-visual Production' in 1991, and has been commissioned directly by a number of clients including Nissan, and BBC Radio 1.
The long awaited new album ' Hollow Man ' is available to purchase from Soundscape Music
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This new album is released by Holroyd's own Soundscape Music label, under the umbrella group identity Anything Goze . Formed by Christophe Goze , the acclaimed Catalan jazz/lounge/world guitarist, this new music collective aims to bridge the gap between artists and labels to provide a platform for musicians to distribute and market their work, without the constraints of traditional record deal.
New Release - HOLLOW MAN consists of one full album and an additional disc called ' All Colours ' which is one ambient track divided into 6 parts. The running time of this 2nd disc is approx 23 minutes. The price of the full album package ( both discs ) is £11.95.
A limited amount ( 500 only ) of the promo copies which consist of ONLY the first album and have a cut down version of the artwork in a cardboard sleeve ( still full colour ). These are £4.95 each. Both are available directly from the website.
REVIEWS
DJ Magazine
"Out there global soundscaping - At his best Holroyd is Massive Attack, Mogwai, Simon Fisher Turner, David Toop and Future Sounds of London in an intelligent globally-tinged reflective collaboration. Electronics flutter and strings caress our emotions without it descending into self indulgent sentimentalism". 4/5
Phil Meadley - (UK's top world music journalist)
"Bob Holroyd has never been one to follow the pack. Having been known
for his exemplary global tinged ambient and percussive masterpieces
such as Adrift In Kerala and African Drug, one could be forgiven for
thinking that his new album Hollow Man would follow suit. However
this is quite a departure, more influenced by the likes of David
Sylvian, Sigur Ros, and Massive Attack. The sound of fuzzy guitar and
heavily condensed slow motion breaks pervade some tracks, as do
heartbreak vocals and haunting Eno'esque ambient electronica. It's a
departure indeed, but a welcome one."
DISCOGRAPHY
Hollow Man CD 2006
Without Within CD 2003
A Different Space CD 2000
Hybrid 12" 1997
Waking The Spirits 12" 1996
Stages CD 1996
African Drug 12" 1996
Fluidity and Structure CD 1993
COMPILATIONS FEATURING BOB HOLROYD
