orchestral

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with extravagant and complex composition. Drawing from romantic and modern composers like Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Glass; and then fusing in a modern rock sound like Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Daft Punk and Sufjan Stevens; Emanuel & the Fear displays a true understanding of sound all-the-while capturing audiences with their climactic electro/orchestral arrangements and quivering...

The Amber Sleep is the songwriting outlet of Graham Jones (also of The Exploits of Elaine and the good anna), and a band formed in 2008 and currently consisting of 9 other musicians: Natalie Guest, Tom Denning, Lauren Smith, Stuart Robinson, Nicolar Bell, Alex Nicklin, Michael Waters, Tom Bush and Julian Cole. The group makes melancholic folk pop with dense orchestration, featuring a quintet of strings and woodwind amongst the more familiar guitar band setup, and sounding comparable to artists such as Efterklang, Sufjan Stevens, Antony and the Johnsons and Sigur Ros.

The Last Shadow Puppets is a band that consists of Alex Turner of Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals. They released their debut album, The Age of the Understatement, on the 21st April 2008 in the U.K., and 6th May in the U.S. The album also features James Ford (producer and half of the duo Simian Mobile Disco) and string arrangements from Owen Pallett a.k.a Final Fantasy. The album went straight to number one in the U.K. Albums Chart.

Scottish pianist and composer Stuart Mitchell, currently lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. His most recent classical compositions have been inspired by his passion for subjects concerning nature and geometry.
In 2006, The Rosslyn Motet, was realized in collaboration with his father Thomas J Mitchell after 15 years of research and study of the symbolic carvings within the Rosslyn Chapel. This project attracted widespread media attention and brought his music to a worldwide audience.