Music Releases
In the section below lists releases on CD and/or Vinyl that either feature my own music, collaborations, remixes or production on other people’s music.
2023 My album, Descent is a collection of work developed over 20 years, brought together through this beautiful release by SN Variations. Pages dedicated to Descent here: https://www.davidprior.org/descent
2023 My piece, Thinking Out Loud is on the Constructive release, Utopia or Oblivion, a compilation of 10 artists work inspired by and in response to the work of Buckminster Fuller. Utopia or Oblivion has a dedicated website here: https://utopiaoroblivion.net/
2022 Adrian Corker’s album, 9 Spaces features field recordings by Watson, performances by Orazbayeva, Wyse, and the Ligeti Quarter, and processing by Watanabe and Yamamoto. I had the pleasure of mixing it all.
2022 I mixed Adrian Corker’s, Since It Turned Out As Something Else. The album features the Ligeti Quartet and a range of fantastic instrumentalists, recorded in multiple spaces around the world.
2020 Paradise 94 is an incredible debut release from cellist and producer Lucy Railton. I didn’t mix the whole album but it was mesmerising to work on Fortified Up, an 11 minute opus that has Lucy sampling herself playing the same glissandi in multiple layers.
2020 Adrian Corker, Music from Tin Star, series II. These tracks were selected from Adrian’s music for the TV series, featuring Tim Roth and Christina Ricci, all of which I mixed.
2019 Featuring percussionist Sam Wilson, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, piano by Mark Knoop and the voice of Josephine Stephenson, Adrian Corker’s, Music for Lockgrooves uses the cutting lathe at the legendary Exchange Mastering studios to create the 1.8 second fragments that form the basis of the tracks on this album. I mixed it.
2017 Comprising a series of pieces from the score to Florian Hoffmeister's The Have-Nots, Adrian Corker’s score features lock grooves, violin, cello, viola da gamba and double bass. I shared mixing duties on this release with Peiman Khosravi.
2016 Adrian Corker’s Start Merge Fade features Lucy Railton (cello) and Hammer Dulcimer (Jon Banks), and was recorded at Mute Studios and mixed by me. The release also features remixes by Circle Traps and Richard Skelton.
2013 I mixed all but two of the tracks on Adrian Corker’s album, Raise, released on Village Green Records. The others were mixed by Dan Rejmer at Mute. The album features Lucy Railton, Jack Wylie, Milo Fitzpatrick, Helge Jonsson, Andy Prior, Chloe Kent, Benji Merrison and the Elisian Quartet.
2013 A field recording of mine from Uyeasound, Shetland Islands, features on this Thirty Pounds of Bone (Johny Lamb) I cannot sing you here, but for songs of where. I also took the photograph on the cover. This album was also part of Johny’s PhD submission, which I supervised, so it’s all the more special.
2012 My field recording, Position Two: Pontoon, Newton Ferrers features on this beautiful Engraved Glass release, A Quiet Position, curated by Jez Riley-French.
2012 The Arcades track You Were Born Into This is included on the Rattle release, Born Into This: The Music of Rattle (Overview 1991-2011). They even took the name of the volume from the track!
2011 Arcades, Who’s Most Lost? was a songwriting collaboration with Dugal McKinnon. I wrote 11 of the 13 tracks to Dugal’s lyrics and I’m very proud of it. I also took the photos for the album cover.
2011 Documentary film, Way of the Morris, by Tim Plester, features music by Adrian Corker. The album was produced and by Adrian Corker, myself and Daniel Rejmer.
2009 My piece, Black Water Brown Water began as a sound walk commissioned by British Waterways as part of a development in Stourport. The text for the piece (read by John Hall) features in this book/ CD released by Acts of Language. Illustrations are by Claudia Schmidt.
2008 John Matthias and Nick Ryan’s Cortical Songs emerged from their Fragmented Orchestra project, which with Jane Grant, won the PRS Foundation New Music Award the same year. Cortical Songs was released on nonclassical and features my track Phinneas Gage Remix. Other featured artists include Thom Yorke, Marcus Coates, and Gabriel Prokoviev.
2008 I contributed to various tracks on John Matthias’ Stories from the Watercooler, variously as recording engineer and programmer. I also co-produced the final track, One Sunny Morning in the no-fly zone with Roy Merchant and Jonathan Moore (Coldcut). I also played piano on this track.
2008 I engineered and produced 5 of the tracks of Michael Bassett’s album Soft Verges, before he completed the other 6 with Greg Norman at Electrical Audio in Chicago. I also played piano on Exchange (Eye for an Eye). Released on Eschatone.
2007 A piece I made with my brother Andrew Prior under the name Orlando Hooks called Gem Sprinter features on the Yachtclub Records release Pallomeri, curated by Antti Saario.
2007 I was recording engineer on Icebreaker’s mesmerising performance of Philip Glass’s Music in Changing Parts. The album was produced by James Poke and mixed and mastered by Derek Nash.
2006 John Matthias and I remixed John Richards’ Suite for Piano and Electronics, performed by GeNIA for this nonclassical release. We were working under the name Derailer. Other featured artists include Max de Wardener, Kreepa, and Gabriel Prokoviev
2005 I recorded, mixed and co-produced the track Everything on Nicola Hitchcock’s album Passive Aggressive, released on the Tempted label.
2004 John Matthias and I remixed Corker Conboy’s track Radiant Idiot under the name Derailer. It was released on the EP Six For Five. Harmony Korine used our remix of the track in Stuck, a promo he made for Thorntons Chocolate. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrQN2-WShGQ
2003 My piece for Piano and Tape, Somewhere Submarine (1996) is released on Legacies: Works from Beast Vol. 2, a collection of works curated by Sonic Arts Network and released on the Sargasso label.
2000 The fifth movement of my piece for Piano and Tape, Somewhere Submarine (1996) appears on Presence II, released on Productions électro Productions (PeP).
2000 My piece Love and Death, created during a residency hosted by the DAAD at the Technisches Universitat, Berlin, is released on Inventionen, the proceedings of festival in 2000.
1991 I played bass on Cover the Sea’s debut album, Cause for Concern, recorded live a Moles Club, Bath and released on Moles Records International the same year.
