Sebastian Wrap/Garden Of Luxor

by Nick Hudson

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Limited to 23 copies, Nick Hudson's Derek Jarman Super-8 scores on lathe-cut 8" vinyl, featuring a foreword by Jarman's producer and archivist James Mackay. Includes digital download.

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For the inaugural release on our new label imprint, Super8Sync Recordings present

Two powerful and beautiful pieces by composer Nick Hudson, commissioned to accompany two of Derek Jarman’s experimental Super8 short films,

Sebastian Wrap and Garden Of Luxor.

Although these recordings were produced in 2018/19, they have, until now, remained unreleased and only those fortunate to have seen the films during the recent Super 8 programmes curated by James Mackay will have heard them.

The pieces themselves mirror the fragmented, experimental nature of the films and are produced like musical collages, held together by evocative organ and string arrangements.

This release is very much a celebration of the great Derek Jarman as a film-maker and cultural icon of our times. It’s a fitting debut for Super8Sync Recordings as we aim to present and celebrate the art of music for picture.

In early 2020 Nick and Paul Pascoe (Super8Sync) hatched a plan to release these works on a special limited edition 8” vinyl record, to coincide with a planned Jarman retrospective (featuring screenings of
both films), scheduled for May 2020 in Manchester.

Needless to say that event was cancelled due to Covid-19 and the project remained shelved until now. There are just 23 individually lathe cut, 8” vinyl records to accompany the release. The sleeve art features on-set photography and sleeve notes by Jarman’s producer and
archivist, James Mackay.

“It was ‘The Garden’ (1990) that I saw first - a late Film Four broadcast after my parents had gone to bed. Growing up queer, closeted and creative in a rural hinterland in the nineties brought its (un)fair share of difficulties, and discovering the films, diaries, paintings and designs of British polymath Derek Jarman in 1997 made these tensions and conflicts easier to traverse and transcend:

I and many others are forever grateful for his pioneer spirit as an artist, human and activist. As a composer my first loves were Ennio Morricone and Ryuchi Sakamoto. I don't think I listened to non-film or non-classical music until I was eleven. So when producer James Mackay invited me to compose scores for these hitherto silent Jarman Super-8 films, it felt like a homecoming in so many ways. It is a humbling charge and one with no little cultural weight. I hope the assemblages of field recordings, organ music, string arrangements and foley gathered here compliment Derek's beautiful, luminous films well. Likewise I hope they stand alone musically. I can't think of a better-suited medium for these two compositions. We honour Derek - and Ennio and Ryuichi - all of whom have dropped their bodies to leave eternal legacies.” Nick Hudson

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released June 2, 2023

Nick Hudson - composer, producer, arranger, foley, field recordings, church organ
Lizzy Carey - violins

Church organ recorded at St. Mary's Church, Brighton.

Mastered by Paul Pascoe at Church Road Studios, Hove.

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Nick Hudson Tbilisi, Georgia

Nick Hudson is a UK-born, Tbilisi-based composer/artist/image-maker/activist..

In April 2021 Nick released his first solo album in five years - Font Of Human Fractures - to glowing reviews from The Quietus and Libération.

"There isn’t really anyone making music like Nick Hudson” - The Quietus

“Genius” - BBC Introducing

“Scott Walker channeling Coil” - Mojo

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