The Kick Horns
| The Kick Horns | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Website | kickhorns.com |
| Current occupation | |
Alto saxophone , baritone saxophone, flute |
Simon C Clarke |
| Roddy Lorimer | |
Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone |
Tim Sanders |
| former members | |
| Steve Sidwell | |
| Neil Sidwell | |
The Kick Horns (also spelled 'Kickhorns', occasionally referred to as 'Kick Horns' in accolades) is a group of wind instrumentalists founded in London in the 1980s by Simon C. Clarke, Tim Sanders and Roddy Lorimer .
background
Clarke, Sanders and Lorimer earned themselves a good reputation through their first work, among others with David Gilmour ( About Face , 1984), Dead or Alive ( Sophisticated Boom Boom , 1984), Pete Townshend ( White City: A Novel , 1985) and were booked as studio musicians for sound carrier recordings, but also for live performances by internationally successful artists.
After further work with, for example Bronski Beat ( Truthdare Doubledare , 1986) and The Communards ( Red , 1987), there was a first collaboration with the German band Extrabreit ( Sex After 3 Years in a Submarine , 1987).
The Kick Horns run their own recording studio , The Tall Place, in south-east London, which they also make available to other musicians. The studio's equipment includes Neumann microphones ( Neumann U87 ) and API preamplifiers. Simon Clarke and Tim Sanders also offer their services as arrangers . Even for recordings by third parties in which the group is involved, the group writes its own arrangements; occasionally it also happens that a finished arrangement is given to her.
For recordings with the section, other musicians are called in as required. The need depends either on the required or desired instrumentation for a piece or the number of instruments required. For example, for the song Sunday Sunday from the Blur album Modern Life is Rubbish, a euphonium and a tenor horn were required, while Chris Rea wanted an eight-piece brass section for Auberge, each with two trumpets, saxophones, trombones, a bass trombone and a tuba .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Participation list at discogs.com , accessed on March 17, 2020
- ↑ a b soundbetter.com , accessed April 1, 2020
- ↑ a b c Interview on the working method on audiomasterclass.com (English), accessed on April 1, 2020