"BEAUTIFULLY MUSICAL GUITAR PLAYING."-The Sunday Times.
"ATMOSPHERIC GUITAR PLAYING."-The Observer.
"OPULENT GUITAR CHORDS."-Metro.
"NICELY WRITTEN FOR TWO FRENCH HORNS AND TROMBONE."-The Wire.download Steve's scores
.....I am a classical guitarist and composer and I've written and recorded two commercially available albums and produced music for the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY. The music I co wrote for the RSC's "VENUS AND ADONIS" was critic's choice in Metro, November, 2004.I started playing guitar when I was very young and studied at the ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC in London. My most well known teacher was the guitarist JOHN WILLIAMS. While still at school I was invited with some other guitarists to meet SEGOVIA.I also write for other instruments many of which I don't play and occasionally write computer music and words. website:www.steverussell.info
I produce scores for my music and I'm honoured when people play them. You can see some of my sheet music at:
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I worked with STEREOLAB on their remixes of STATICE for PROP and SOLDIER GIRL for THE POLYPHONIC SPREE. ANDY RAMSAY from Stereolab, and I were working on a second Europa 51 album with members of TURIN BREAKS and LADYTRON when tragically, our vocalist, MARY HANSON died. Shortly after Andy and I went our separate ways.
When I left music college I became singer and multi-instrumentalist with the medieval/folk band DRAGONSFIRE and happy to be touring and gigging full time. After I left Dragonsfire I played keyboards in the band HOLLOW HORSE with the brilliant bass player TOM JENKINSON who went on to become SQUAREPUSHER.
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I've worked a lot with PETE THOMS from LANDSCAPE who wrote EINSTEIN A GO GO. We released an album called FLAMENCO NIGHTS with me playing guitar under the name ESTEBAN CRUJIDO. While working on the album I attended a guitar class with JUAN MARTIN to refresh my knowledge of flamenco. Due to copyright reasons Flamenco Nights was released only in Taiwan and has now been deleted.