Starry Starry Night

Description

Paul Clarvis is one of the UKs most respected and talented percussionists and has played with everyone from Mick Jagger and Nina Simone to Herbie Hancock and Andy Sheppard. As one of the most requested session musicians, he has played on numerous film soundtracks including Star Wars, Thunderbirds, The Constant Gardener, The Passion, Troy, King Arthur, Kingdom Of Heaven, The Bourne Ultimatum, Lord Of The Rings, Batman, Spy Games, Captain Corellis Mandolin, Shakespeare in Love, James Bond, Billy Elliot, Notting Hill, and many others. He co-leads his own band Orquestra Mahatma which specialises in improvisations on folk tunes from all over the world, and also leads an improvising trio For All the Saints with Stan Sultzmann and Tony Hymas. Starry Starry Night finds him teamed up with pianist Liam Noble, best known for his quirky, individual compositions and improvisations. Liam has also worked with Stan Sultzmann, as well as many other artists including Ingrid Laubrock, Anita Wardell, Harry Beckett, Christine Tobin, Chris Bisco and with cult minimalist composer Moondog, where he and Paul Clarvis first met.
Since then, they have played together in many bands and contexts, so when the opportunity arose to record at Abbey Road Studio One, they both agreed that this was the perfect setting for their duo recording. The resulting album Starry Starry Night is a beautiful collection of standards ranging from Scott Joplins Maple Leaf Rag, Ellingtons Mood Indigo and George and Ira Gershwins Embraceable You to Don Macleans Vincent (Starry Starry Night), Paul Simons So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright and Moondogs Paris. This is also a very personal album for Paul Clarvis, a thank you to his parents. His father was terminally ill at the time of recording but did hear the completed album just before he passed away.