Composer Matt Dunkley Set To Release Debut Album ‘Six Cycles’

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‘Six Cycles’ is the debut artist album from one of the world’s leading orchestrators, arrangers and conductors; Matt Dunkley.

Having worked on films such as ‘Inception’, ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Black Swan’, and with artists such as Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Massive Attack and Kronos Quartet, as well as a successful composer for film and television, it was only a matter of time before Matt Dunkley released his own album. Recorded with the renowned Babelsberg Film Orchestra, the result is a rich and nuanced cinematic soundscape, replete with stirring builds of Wagnerian grandeur.

“The inspiration for the six pieces that comprise ‘Six Cycles’ all derive from disparate sources, whether it a piece of poetry, a painting or the emotion of personal loss. Initially they seemed to be unrelated, but as I listened to them as a whole, a sense of them belonging together slowly emerged, forming a true “cycle”. I want the listener to discover their own world within my music, hence the wilfully enigmatic titles.”
– Matt Dunkley

Matt Dunkley studied trumpet and piano at the London College of Music and has gone on to conduct all of the UK’s top orchestras as well as international ensembles such as The Los Angeles Philharmonic (at The Hollywood Bowl), and The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (at the Sydney Opera House). He has scored two feature films, a number of network series for British Television as well as music for adverts and production libraries. For the theatre, he wrote and arranged a ground-breaking arena version of Peter Pan: The Neverending Story, that is currently on a world tour, and he has just completed the score to Flanders Fields, a theatre piece set alongside a war grave cemetery in Belgium.

‘Six Cycles’ is set for release on 11th March 2016 on Village Green.

Matt Dunkley ‘Six Cycles’
Release Date: 11th March 2016
Label: Village Green
Format: LP // CD // Digital
Cat No: VG018

Tracklist:
01. Cycle 1
02. Cycle 2
03. Cycle 3
04. Cycle 4
05. Cycle 5
06. Cycle 6

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