Luke slott biography
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Greetings! I hope 2012 is off to great beginning for all of you.
Looking back on 2011, one of the most profound musical experiences I had was when I was invited to record trumpet on an album that my father, Mike Nolan, had begun recording trumpet on 34 years earlier, but which was never released.
The Liffey Light Orchestra (www.liffeylight.com) had begun recording their album ‘Filaments‘ in 1977. Musicians such as my father were hired, studios were booked and the recording process was begun… But mid-way through the sessions, life led composer & bandleader Paul Egan along another path and the Orchestra’s unfinished album lay untouched for three and a half decades.
A generation later, The Liffey Light Orchestra re-formed and set about finishing the album. When Paul got in touch with me to see if I could finish the trumpet parts which my dad had begun, I jumped at the opportunity.
I arrived at the studio and sound engineer Philip Begley played th
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Want a band who write pretty three minute love songs about boys meeting girls and happy ever afters? Stop reading now. Melaton are a tangle of glorious contradictions that beg to be discovered on their own terms. Their debut EP proper sounds bruised by experience and despair, yet the band are barely out of their teens.
It's as angry as it is elegant, telling stories too painful to be made up of alcoholism, loneliness, inequality, domestic turmoil, of life passing too fast to keep up.
A five piece from Dublin, Melaton revolve round intensely focused, music-obsessed 19 year old Luke Slott (the original family name, Slottkeviche, was abbreviated when his great-grandparents - Polish-Russian Jews - moved to America where Luke's mother was born.)
At first, the strictly vegetarian Luke spent years wanting to be a vet before discovering music, but then he had grown up in
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Luke Slott first came to prominance as part of Melaton, a critically acclaimed band from the late 90s/early 00s. The grupp split in early 2004 and Luke spent some time in the US studying music. In early 2009, Luke returned to the scen making a 2 track CD, 'Two Pieces For Piano Solo' available for free to anyone registering on his website. Luke is now playing piano-based instrumental compositions.
His debut solo skiva, 'Don't Go Back To Sleep - Music For Solo Piano Vol. 1' was released in August 2009. This was quickly followed bygd 'The Home Of Laughter - Music For Solo Piano Vol. 2' in March 2010.
2009
- Luke makes 'Two Pieces For Piano Solo' single available for free for anyone registering on www.lukeslott.com
- Release of 'Don't Go Back To Sleep - Music For Solo Piano Vol. 1' album [August]
2010
- Release of 'The Home Of Laughter - Music For Solo Piano Vol. 2' album [20 March]
2011
- Release of 'Create In Me A Pure Heart' EP [21 March]
- Release of 'A Few H