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Record Production
Jim's complex musical background in commercial, folk,
art, and electronic music gives him the unique ability to work with
artists either in conventional genres such as folk, pop, and rock or
with the new generation of artists who cross musical boundaries. Jim
works mainly from his Edinburgh recording studio.
• Jim works closely with writers developing structures, building
tracks and inspiring new ideas encouraging a writer to fulfil their
potential.
• Recording vocalists and working with artists on complex, intricate
and subtle performances .
• Motivating musicians to explore the boundaries
of their performance.
• Combining his musical experience and programming skills
to integrate all the aspects of great Performance and songwriting
with technology and cutting edge arrangements.
Film and TV
Working from his Edinburgh recording studio,
Jim has composed synchronous music and worked on sound design for more
than 45 film and TV projects.
• Below are a number of key pieces , showing the range and style
of commissions and clients. The full list of commissions is available
on Jim's credits page.
• In addition, Jim's composition skills encompass commercial
songwriting, composition and performance of World and Traditional
music through to avant-garde experimentalism. You will find further
music cues on the Record Production,
Song Writing and Traditional
Composition pages to illustrate this.
• He has particular skills in creating atmospheric soundscapes
and writing beautiful evocative melodies that capture the moment.
Sessions and Performance
Jim is a world-class player of percussion and particularly the bodhran
a simple Celtic frame drum. He also plays mandolin
and cittern to a very high standard. He played electric guitar and percussion
with his Columbia artist project The Lanterns as well as programming
beats and keys for them.
You will find Jim on an eclectic mix of other people's shows and albums.
Jools Holland's 'Later' and MTV
Unplugged and the multi- platinum album No Quarter with
Page and Plant, to Edinburgh Castle with
Van Morrison and The
Chieftains to Emmlou Harris, The
McGarrigles, John Martyn & Cathy
Matea on the Transatlantic Sessions. Percussion on Billy
Bragg album The Internationale. Album tracks and live
TV with The Buhdhu Boys. Check out Jim's
extensive credit listings.
He was invited to collaborate with Aboriginal musicians in Australia
to create a performance piece called Celtic Dreaming, which was broadcast
nationally on ABC TV in Australia. Various
'house bands' on several leading TV music and arts series including
Shetland Sessions, Togaidh SinnFonn, TACSI, Talla A Bhaile.
Jim also had a number of high profile pupils including in 1994 Evelyn
Glennie for bodhran lessons and advised U2
on how to play the locust bean pods!
Songwriting
As a commercial songwriter and artist Jim has worked across many genres,
from commercial pop, as principal writer for the Lanterns, to being
considered as one of the finest composers of traditional and crossover
music. Check out Jim's credit listing.
As a collaborator he is often called on to work with an artist on structure
and creative direction.
Clients: Columbia Records, Sony Music
Tunes
Jim has written around sixty reels and jigs. As a young musician in
1984 he published a book of music The Flow Country which turned out
to be somewhat of a legacy. Those tunes were picked up, played and recorded
by hundreds of musicians. Check out Jim's extensive credit
listings.
The Easy Club reel alone has been recorded on more than thirty albums.
Jim's Scottish tunes crop up again and again on recordings around the
World.
SCOTTISH FOLK MUSIC CLASSICS
103
CELTIC FOLK ALBUMS
EDINBURGH
CLIENTS
PRODUCTION
Cutting
edge vocals and acoustic instrumentation (the Poozies/ Kate Rusby and
Shine).
Avant garde/ traditional (Alyth McCormack).
Contemporary salsa composition (Salsa Celtica).
Techno/ Traditional (Shooglenifty).
Pop
(The Lanterns)
SONY MUSIC
THE LANTERNS, Sylvia and Gina Rae and Jim Sutherland
COLLABORATIONS AND NEW PROJECTS
MUSIC FOR THEATRE
FILM & TV MUSIC CLIENT LIST
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