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I Love Your Smile
Charlie Winston video for 'I Love Your Smile' featuring Audrey Tautou.
Director: Marc Maggiore
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Undiscovered Voices of the Caribbean
Be prepared to hear something completely different and 'new' from Cuba. With a Real World Records release in the pipeline,The Creole Choir of Cuba are December's featured artists at the B&W Society of Sound.
In glorious songs like Edem Chanté (Listen To Us!), The Creole Choir celebrate the history of their Haitian descendents enslaved to the Caribbean from West Africa. The Creole Choir's ten remarkable singers come from Camagüey, Cuba's third city, down towards the eastern end of the island. They grew up and studied music in this old colonial town, designated a UNESCO World heritage Site in 2008 for its colonial architecture. They have nurtured music passed down in their families since the early 19th century, gradually adding modern Haitian sounds.
John Leckie on Portico Quartet
John Leckie talks about the recording of the Portico Quartet record 'Isla' at Abbey Road Studios, working with the band, and mixing the record in The Big Room at Real World Studios.
Leckie's track record as a catalyst for emerging talent is legendary: not only for the famous examples, Stone Roses, Doves, XTC, Radiohead, but also for pioneering systems orchestra Lost Jockey (which spawned Man Jumping, ZTT's Andrew Poppy, Orlando Gough, and soundtrack supremo John Lunn) and World Music stars such as Rodrigo & Gabriela and Papa Wemba.
Line - Take 5 at Abbey Road
Portico Quartet are captured during the recording sessions for their second album 'Isla' in the legendary Studio 2 at Abbey Road. John Leckie who first worked at Abbey Road Studios in 1970 as a Tape-Operator, later graduating to Balance Engineer on projects with John Lennon (Plastic Ono Band), George Harrison, (All Things Must Pass), Syd Barrett (Barrett) and Pink Floyd (Meddle and Wish You Were Here) was once again at the controls in the studio.
Our cameras were in the room for the recording of 'Line', you can now get a feel for the experience for yourself with this, 'Line' Take 5 (alternate version) of the track from Portico Quartet's second album 'Isla'.
I love Your Smile - acoustic version
Charlie dropped in to The Wood Room at Real World Studios to record some acoustic versions of tracks from 'Hobo' whilst he was in Box.