![]() I listened to the tape that guy gave me when I was in Paris for three or four months. It was really odd to realize that, without having consciously contrived it, I was so clearly part of a tradition that I hadn’t even known existed. I was floored because I felt like I’d discovered my father or something. Somebody heard me playing at a little gig out here and came up to me and said, “You must be a huge John Martyn fan.” They were gobsmacked that I didn’t know who he was and they came to the next gig with a mixtape of John Martyn songs. I was turned on to John Martyn before Nick Drake. I get very embarrassed talking to other musicians because I seem to know relatively very little. I’m actually really pretty ignorant when it comes to musicology in general. Were you influenced by people like Nick Drake and John Martyn? You were talking about Pink Floyd’s sound, but yours is very different, very stripped down. a few years ago that I fell into it as what I was going to do in life. It certainly wasn’t for anybody else, and it wasn’t until I got out here to L.A. I didn’t think of it as anything serious, it was more teenage therapy. Like most troubled teenagers, probably when I was 16, 17, but it was obviously complete rubbish at the time. I wasn’t one of those kids that collected records, I just seemed to absorb everything. I wasn’t one of those kids that was crazy about music: I didn’t have posters on the wall or followed some band religiously, I wasn’t obsessive about anything. I always think first hearing Pink Floyd was probably the biggest musical awakening in terms of what a band could sound like. What were your formative listening experiences? I sang pretty early on in a choir and I think that’s where I got my ear for harmony, but it certainly wasn’t something I knew was my destiny or anything until much later on. I picked up pretty much every instrument on my way to the guitar: piano, violin, trumpet, I even tried the bagpipes for a while. I remember classical music a lot as a child-Beethoven banging away in the background-but not anything exceptionally out of the ordinary. There was always music, but I wouldn’t say my family was particularly musical. I started playing piano early on like a lot of kids. What was your childhood like from a musical perspective? #ALL MY DAYS ALEXI MURDOCH LYRICS MOVIE#tour to discuss his musical background, why filmmakers love his music so much and his future movie plans. One of Murdoch’s best-known songs, All My Days, features on the film’s trailer and has already created a buzz, while the film’s soundtrack recalls movies from a more innocent time featuring folky soundtracks by a single artist or band, such as The Graduate (with its contributions from Simon and Garfunkel) and Harold and Maude, featuring the music of Cat Stevens.įilmInFocus caught up with Murdoch recently during his U.S. The soft-voiced singer-songwriter, however, is set to for even greater heights now that his music forms the backbone of the soundtrack for Away We Go. And, in 2006, Time Without Consequence, reached #25 in Billboard’s Heatseeker chart. When Murdoch put out his debut recording, Four Songs EP (2002), word of mouth spread quickly and it ended up becoming the highest selling release ever on the CD Baby website. He was born in London, raised in Scotland and studied at Duke University and admits, “I’ve never really felt that I’ve had a place that was quite home.” He has also very much has chosen to take the road less traveled in terms of his career: He has so far shunned a major record deal, instead choosing to self-release his work, but has found considerable success regardless. His music is rooted in the present but has a timeless quality to it, and if you think it sounds like the young troubadour has wanderlust, then you’re right. Murdoch has a spare, stripped down sound and sings gently evocative folk songs in the tradition of fellow Brits such as Nick Drake and John Martyn. When he first heard Time Without Consequence, the debut album from Scottish singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch, he knew he had found what he was looking for. During the filming of Away We Go, Sam Mendes began thinking about the music that would be the sound and the soul of the film. ![]()
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