Finding Time Andrew Skeet

• 1 Passing Phase 02:06
• 2 Setting Out 03:44
• 3 Killing Time 07:38
• 4 Changing Lines 04:15
• 5 Pursuing the Horizon 04:07
• 6 Reflect 04:05
• 7 Taking Off 03:54
• 8 Stop the Clock 05:07
• 9 The Unforgiving Minute 05:07
• 10 Finding Time 05:51
• Total Runtime 45:54

Info for Finding Time

Acclaimed composer Andrew Skeet has a musical background more eclectic than most. Widely known for his compositions for film and television, he was a gifted boy treble, appearing at Glyndebourne and on tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and is also a member of critically lauded rock band ‘The Divine Comedy.’ Often referred to as the British Einaudi, Skeet is currently one of London’s busiest orchestrators, arrangers and conductors.

„Finding Time“ is Andrew Skeet's début album on Sony Classical. For Andrew, recording the album has been a welcome experience, giving him eagerly awaited time and space to present his own inner musical core. The world of the moving image has always been very important to him and this album has enabled Andrew to showcase many of those filmic influences, creating music best characterised as beautiful, atmospheric and involving.

„Finding Time, however, sees Skeet drift beautifully into territory influenced (casually, subtly) by Michael Nyman and byweighty personal/emotional themes. Temporal matters are to the fore: the passing of time, killing time, taking time off, and – referencing WH Auden’s classicpoem Funeral Blues – stopping time. It all adds up to sublime, reflective music that can often stop you from thinking. How good is that?“ (Tony Clayton-Lea, The Irish Times)

Andrew Skeet
is a composer for television & film and one of London’s busiest orchestrators, arrangers and conductors.

Andrew’s career in music began as a child singer appearing at Glyndebourne Opera, The National Theatre and on film soundtracks including Another Country, The Meaning of Life and Yentl.

Andrew studied composition and piano at The Royal College of Music and has subsequently written more than 60 scores for television and worked with many pop artists including Sinead O’Connor, Imogen Heap, Suede, UNKLE & George Michael. He joined Neil Hannon’s The Divine Comedy in 2004 and has recorded and toured three albums with them. Andrew also collaborated with Neil Hannon on the musical Swallows & Amazons and the opera Sevastopol for the National Theatre and Royal Opera House respectively.

Andrew has orchestrated and conducted many high profile feature films and prime-time TV dramas including Ridley Scott’s The Counsellor, Nick Murphy’s The Awakening, Cuban Fury starring Nick Frost, The Game, Upstairs Downstairs and Desperate Romantics for the BBC and is currently working on Guy Ritchie’s new film The Man From Uncle.

Andrew has an on-going relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he has just recorded a new orchestral work as the theme for ESPN’s 2014 Wimbledon coverage and also arranged and produced two highly successful albums of video game music Greatest Video Game Music 1&2, which achieved top 20 Billboard 100 success in the US.

Andrew regularly collaborates with other prominent composers including Daniel Pemberton, Anthony Phillips, Luke Gordon, Andrew Britton and David Goldsmith, Benjamin Wallfisch and Peter Salem.

Andrew’s new solo album According to Me recorded earlier this year is to be released in September 2014.

This album contains no booklet.