Digitonal - Be Still My Bleeping Heart (2010)

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Digitonal - Be Still My Bleeping Heart (2010)

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Pioneering neo classical / electronica band Digitonal were founded by Andy Dobson, clarinetist, soundtrack composer, DJ and keyboard guru and his partner, celebrated violinist Samy Bishai. Drawing comparisons to Orbital, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, their tenth year sees the release of a newly mastered and reworked retrospective album, Be Still My Bleeping Heart.

The idea behind Be Still My Bleeping Heart was not as a kind of best of, but a collection of early tracks released on tiny little bedroom labels put together into a proper album, a coherent piece of work, says Digitonals Andy Dobson of the 11 tracks on this CD, recorded between 2002-2008

As a concept this is a pretty basic thing, he admits. I would go home after clubbing in the early to mid 90s and typically play a mixture of The Orb, Future Sound Of London, Orbital and then Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. I was seeing direct parallels and in The Orbs case, on ?Little Fluffy Clouds, a
direct sample [of Reichs Electric Counterpoint]. I felt it was a genre where I could collate a massive range of influences and musical signatures. And I always wanted to work with classical musicians.