YORK PRESS 13th November 2009

David Lawrie launches new album Liars, Charlatans, Jinxmongers at National Centre for Early Music in York

Easingwold composer and producer David Lawrie will play his new album, Liars, Charlatans, Jinxmongers (For Voice And Accompaniment) live at the National Centre for Early Music in York on Wednesday evening.

For his York concert and further performances in Britain and Europe in late 2009 and 2010, he has arranged his music for a choir, the Leeds College of Music Chamber Choir directed by Graham Coatman, and musicians Idiophonic, Robert Ashbridge and Robert Loxley Hughes, the frontman of York band Idle Jack and the Big Sleep.

"It will be a seated performance and the audience can expect an unorthodox chamber choir, a crazy man [Idiophonic] with a Laptop and a Seventies cord organ; a dashingly long-haired fellow [Loxley Hughes] with a marching bass drum, a hammered dulcimer, a karimba and some Tibetan medicine bowls; a mysterious suited stranger [Ashbridge] with 12 strings, eight fingers, two thumbs and an E-Bow, and a moustached director [Lawrie] with a 3.5 octave voice, more Tibetan medicine bowls, nylon and steel and a great hat," says David...

Read the rest of the article by Charles Hutchinson HERE.

ELECTRIC GHOST December 2008

Liars, Charlatans, Jinxmongers / David Lawrie
(David Lawrie)

David Lawrie is a 23 year old UK composer and producer who was responsible for the great debut album 'The Triumphant' by Vaughan King.

This second beautifully packaged album is an exquisitely realised set of eight songs. Beyond categorisation; Lawrie employs wildly imaginitive soundscapes to envelope his haunting and complex songs.

This is perhaps one of the most original and inventive albums we have recieved this year. Each playing reveals new layers. Transfixing.

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