View basket “Set Fire To The Stars” has been added to your basket. Babelsberg Gruff Rhys SKU: RT0010LP Barcode: 191402001013 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rough Trade Released Date: 5th June 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “I’d made a note of the name after driving past a sign when I was on tour in 2014. Cut to a few years later and the studio where I recorded the album was being knocked down just a week after I finished to make way for a ‘luxury’ apartment development. I was looking for a name that evoked the Tower of Babel – people building towers to reach an idea of heaven (but maybe creating a kind of hell – I’m an atheist by the way!) In any case I had written Babelsberg down and when I listened to the songs together, it finally made sense why I’d done that.” – Gruff Rhys ‘Babelsberg’ is the fifth album by Gruff Rhys, his first for Rough Trade since 2007’s classic ‘Candylion’. The album’s ten tracks were initially recorded in early 2016 in a whirlwind three day session that took place before producer Ali Chant’s studio was demolished. The band he gathered for the record were his regular drummer Kliph Scurlock (ex-Flaming Lips) and multi-instrumentalists Stephen Black (Sweet Baboo) and Osian Gwynedd. The ten tracks then hibernated for eighteen months, awaiting orchestral scores by Swansea based composer Stephen McNeff and the incredible work of the 72 piece BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The result is Gruff’s best record to date – a ten song gazetteer of modern times, each track set to timeless, indelible melody. Amazingly, for a collection of songs written over two years ago, each one seems to pull very sharp focus on the times we’re living in. Over the course of ‘Babelsberg’s forty something minutes, Gruff manages to perfectly document our troubled and troubling times with humour, grace and always addictive melody. In a career that’s spanned three decades, two languages, multiple bands, offshoots, collaborations and one boundless imagination, ‘Babelsberg’ is arguably Gruff’s finest set of songs to date. As well as a huge previously announced hometown show at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (part of Cardiff’s annual Festival of Voice), Gruff has confirmed two further UK concerts with full orchestras backing him and his band. Artist Gruff Rhys Genre Rock And Pop Label Rough Trade Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Frontier Man The Club Oh Dear! 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