Английская Википедия:David Wrench (music producer)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox musical artist David Wrench is a Welsh musician, songwriter, producer and mixer based in London. His work has been nominated for Grammys, Brit Awards and shortlisted for numerous Mercury Prize nominations including the 2017 winning album Process by Sampha. and Arlo Parks 2021 'Collapsed in Sunbeams’. Wrench has been the recipient of the BBC Radio Cymru C2 Producer of the Year award five times in six years between 2007 and 2012 and has received Music Producer Guild Awards (MPGs) including Mix Engineer of the Year 2016 and 2019. Credits include, David Byrne, Frank Ocean, Caribou, Goldfrapp, Erasure, The xx, Sampha, Jamie xx, Jungle, FKA Twigs, Glass Animals, Alma, Hot Chip, Marika Hackman, Honne, Jack Garratt, Manic Street Preachers, Villagers, Courtney Barnett, Austra, Tourist, Richard Russell, Let's Eat Grandma, Young Fathers, Georgia, Bat For Lashes and Race Horses.

David Wrench mixes in Dolby Atmos.

Career

Solo career

As a musician, Wrench first came to public attention in 1990 with his first group Nid Madagascar who released the first Welsh-language acid house record "Lledrith Lliw" as a 12" single in 1990. This was followed by his first solo album Blow Winds Blow, released via Ankst in 1997. After its release, Wrench began working as an engineer, producer and occasional instrumentalist for artists. His early engineering and production credits from this period include records by British Sea Power, The Good Sons, Jackie Leven and The Blueskins, Zabrinski, MC Mabon, Julian Cope (Brain Donor) and Welsh Music Prize winning album from Georgia Ruth. Mix credits from this time include James Yorkston, Caribou (Albums Andorra and Swim), Week of Pines and Y Niwl.

In 2010 Wrench released the album Spades & Hoes & Plows on Invada records. The album, which was produced by Julian Cope, comprises three re-workings of old revolutionary folk songs and one original instrumental piece based on the Rebecca riots. Writing in the Sunday Times, Stewart Lee described the album thus: "In the face of young people's new enthusiasm for trad-lite, the Welsh weirdo David Wrench threatens to reunpopularise folk music, foregrounding puritanical politics over unpalatable instrumentation at funereal tempos. Fans of Lisbee Stainton are unlikely to enjoy Wrench's punishing, 24-minute rendition of "The Blackleg Miner" despite the invigorating and apocalyptically primitive Mellotron interludes supplied by Julian Cope's Black Sheep band. These weary recitations of traditional protest songs require patience, but by Helyntion Beca, a wordless closing workout inspired by 19th-century black-face transvestites attacking Carmarthenshire toll gates, the LP achieves a tortuous transcendence."

Production, mixing, engineering

2004–2014

When not working on his own music, David Wrench is a studio Record Producer and Engineer. Wrench's production and mix credits from 2004 to 2014 include a number of critically acclaimed albums for Bear in Heaven (I Love You, It's Cool), Alessi's Ark (Time Travel), Race Horses (Goodbye Falkenberg), The Lizzies (St. John), Holy Coves (Peruvian Mistake), Zun Zun Egui (Katang), Y Niwl, Gwyneth Glyn, Skinny Lister (Forge & Flagon) and Caribou (Swim). As an Engineer he worked on albums by Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything, Kathryn Williams, Guillemotts, Beth Orton, James Yorkston, Nancy Elizabeth and Fanfarlo.

2014–present

In 2014 he mixed FKA Twigs’ hugely lauded LP1, and Jungle's self titled debut album, both subsequently nominated for the Mercury Prize.

2015 saw Wrench work again with Dan Snaith aka Caribou on the album Our Love which went on to be nominated in the Best Dance/Electronic album at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

In 2016 Wrench mixed "Self Control" on Frank Ocean's second studio album Blonde.

In 2017, he mixed Sampha’s Mercury Prize and Brit Award winning album Process, and the following year he mixed David Byrne’s American Utopia, which was subsequently nominated for Best Alternative Album at the 61st Grammy Awards. Wrench’s other mix and producing credits from 2017/2018 include Goldfrapp Silver Eye, The xx’s I See You, Gwenno’s Le Kov (Cornish language album), tracks from Richard Russell’s EP Everything Is Recorded,Honne Love Me/Love Me Not, Lo Moon, For Me It’s You, Blossoms album Cool Like You and Let’s Eat Grandma I’m All Ears.

Wrench mixed Erasure's The Neon, the band's eighteenth studio album released in August 2020 by Mute Records. The album debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart with 8,394 copies sold in its first week, the duo's highest-charting album since I Say I Say I Say (1994). In 2020 David also worked with Arlo Parks on tracks "Black Dog", "Eugene" and "Hurt". The latter two have been BBC Radio 1’s Tune of the Week and Annie’s Mac’s Hottest Record. Parks won the AIM Independent Music Awards 2020 ‘One To Watch', was included in The NME 100, longlisted for BBC Sound of 2020 and went on to win a Brit Award for Breakthrough Artist, the Mercury Music Prize and was nominated for a Grammy.

Other releases of 2020 include Ellie Goulding's track "New Heights" from new album Brightest Blue, Jamie xx single "idontknow", Caribou album Suddenly and recent Frank Ocean tracks.

Other mixing and producing projects during this period include "Gosh" from Jamie xx’s In Colour (2015); tracks from Glass Animals’ How To Be A Human Being (2016), their debut Zaba (2014) and also their most recent release Dreamland (2020); Marika Hackman Any Human Friend (2019); Alma Bad News Baby (2019), Manic Street Preachers The Ultra Livid Lament (2021) Villagers Fever Dreams (2021), Courtney Barnett Things Take Time, Take Time (2022). More recent projects include production and mix on Let’s Eat Grandma Two Ribbons, mix on Lil Silva Yesterday Is Heavy, mix on Hercules and Love affair In Amber, mix on Oliver Sim Hideous Bastard and mix on Shygirls’s forthcoming album

Other projects

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Audiobooks performing at Cambridge Junction in 2022

In 2015, Wrench provided surround sound mixing of Wayne McGregor’s ballet Tree Of Codes for its debut at the Manchester Opera House for the Manchester International Festival. The ballet features music by Jamie xx, and visual design by Olafur Eliasson. The ballet was highly acclaimed, and continues to tour.

In 2018, he formed the band audiobooks alongside singer, artist and model Evangeline Ling. The band signed to Heavenly Recordings and released their debut album Now! (in a minute) in November 2018. In 2021 audiobooks released their second LP ‘Astro Tough’

Discography

Albums

• 1997: Blow Winds Blow (vinyl LP/audio CD)
• 1999: You Have Just been Poisened by The Serpents (audio CD with The Serpents)
• 2001 "Happiness", (Cherry Red Records), The Good Sons.
• 2005: The Atomic World of Tomorrow (audio CD)
• 2010: Spades & Hoes & Plows (audio CD)

Singles and EPs

• 1990: "Lledrith Lliw" (12" vinyl EP with Nid Madagascar)
• 1997: "Black Roses" (7" vinyl)
• 1997: "The Ballad of the Christmas Tree and the Silver Birch" (7" vinyl)
• 1998: "No Mask, No Cloak, Dim Gobaith" (7" vinyl with The Serpents)
• 1998: "Sings the Songs of the Shangri Las" (7" vinyl EP)
• 2004: "Superhorny" / "Fuck You And Your War on Terror" (12" vinyl & CD EP)
• 2004: "World War IV" (CD EP)

Production credits

Selected production and mixing credits

2000	Jackie Leven	Defending Ancient Springs 2001 "Happiness" (The Good Sons)
2001	Julian Cope / Brian Donor	Tracks from Love Peace & Fuck'
2002	Zabrinski	Koala Ko-ordination
2005	Jackie Leven & Ian Rankin	Jackie Leven Said
2007	Jackie Leven	Oh What A Blow That Phantom Dealt me!
2007	Caribou	Andorra
2009	Holy Coves	The Lizzies Ynys Môn
2009	Bat For Lashes	Two Suns
2010	Race Horses	Goodbye Falkenburg
2010	Y Niwl	Y Niwl
2010	Jackie Leven	Gothic Road
2010	Everything Everything	Man Alive
2010	Caribou	Swim
2010	Mizan	Dark Blue (EP)
2011	Zun Zun Egui	Katang
2012	Skinny Lister	Forge and Flagon
2012	Race Horses	Furniture
2012	Holy Coves	Peruvian Mistake
2012	James Yorkston	I Was A Cat From A Book
2013	Georgia Ruth	Week of the Pines
2014	Philip Selway	Weatherhouse
2014	Jungle	Jungle
2014	Caribou	Our Love
2014	FKA Twigs	LP1
2014	Owen Pallet	Tracks from In Conflict
2014	Glass Animals	Tracks from Zaba
2015	Erasure	Sometimes 2015
2015	Empress Of	Me
2015	LA Priest	Inji
2015	Bob Moses	Tracks from Days Gone By
2015	Hot Chip	Tracks from Why Makes Sense
2015	FKA Twigs	Tracks from M3LL155X
2015	Jamie xx	Gosh
2016	Bombino	Azel
2016	Bloc Party	Hymns
2016	Factory Floor	25 25
2016	Beth Orton	Kidsticks
2016	Blossoms	Blossoms
2016	Jagwar Ma	So Ordinary
2016	Shura	Tracks from Nothing Is Real
2016	Manic Street Preachers	A Design For Life (David Wrench Remix)
2016	Rihanna	Kiss It Better (Four Tet Remix)
2016	Glass Animals	Life Itself
2016	Glass Animals	Tracks from How To Be A Human Being
2016	Frank Ocean	Self Control
2017	Sampha	Process
2017	Goldfrapp	Silver Eye
2017	Tei Shi	Crawl Space
2017	The xx	I see You
2018	Gwenno	Le Kov
2018	Blossoms	Cool Like You
2018	Honne	Love Me/Love Me Not
2018	Let's Eat Grandma	I'm All Ears
2018	David Byrne	American Utopia
2018	Jungle	ForEver
2018	The Charlatans	Track Totally Eclipsing
2018	Lo Moon	For Me, It's You
2018	Young Fathers	Tracks Cocoa Sugar / Boarder Girls
2018	Richard Russell	Tracks Everything Is Recorded / Be My Friend
2019	James Yorkston	Route To Harmonium
2019	Tourist	Wild
2019	Marika Hackman	Any Human Friend
2019	Alma	Tracks When I Die / Bad News Baby
2019	BENEE	FIRE ON MARZZ (EP)
2019	Frank Ocean	In My Room
2020	Marika Hackman	Covers
2020	Jack Garratt	Love, Death & Dancing
2020	Austra	HiRUDiN
2020	Elderbrook	Why Do We Shake In The Cold?
2020	Honne	No Song Without You
2020	Erasure	The Neon
2020	Caribou	Suddenly
2020	Jamie xx	In Colour (2020 reissue)
2020	Georgia	Tracks: Mellow, Honey Dripping Sky and Ultimate Sailor
2020	Jealous of the Birds	Young Neanderthal & Always Going
2020	Mustafa	Tracks Air Forces / Stay Alive
2020	Tourist	Siren
2020	Tourist	Last
2020	Khushi	Hotter Than Your Instincts
2020	Crooked Colours	Love Language / Falling
2020	Grand Pax	Tracks Wavey & ATV
2020	Ruel	Track As Long As You Care
2020	Mai Kino	Tracks Dopamine / Lungs
2020	Ellie Goulding	Track New Heights
2020	Glass Animals	Tracks from Dreamland
2020	Haai	Put Your Head Above The Parakeets (EP)
2020	Jamie xx	Idontknow
2020	Frank Ocean	Dear April (Side A - Acoustic) / Cayendo (Side A - Acoustic)
2021	Arlo Parks	Collapsed in Sunbeams
2021	Manic Street Preachers	The Ultra Livid Lament
2021	Villagers	Fever Dreams
2022	Courtney Barnett	Things Take Time, Take Time
2022	Let's Eat Grandma	Two Ribbons
2022	Lil Silva	Yesterday Is Heavy
2022	Hercules and Love Affair	In Amber
2022	Oliver Sim	Hideous Bastard
2022	Shygirl	Nymph
2022	Florence + The Machine	Mermaids
2023	Arlo Parks	My Soft Machine
2023	The Pretenders	Let The Sun Come In
2023	Bombino	Tazidert
2023	Blur	The Ballad of Darren

External links

• Head Heritage-Spades & Hoes & Plows Mini-site for Spades & Hoes & Plows album
• BBC "mini site" for David Wrench
• David Wrench Discography Шаблон:Webarchive
• AllMusic
• Шаблон:Discogs artist