IF you are not clued up on I Am Kloot, you should start elsewhere with 2001’s Natural History and 2010’s Sky At Night. Then you can go from there to here, a soundtrack of original material and three old Kloot favourites from the BBC1 drama set in the Manchester trio’s home city.
Light and shade has always marked their work, making them ideal accompanists to a tale of the tragic and comic misadventures of two families at the time of the 1996 IRA bombing of the city centre. Kloot singer and guitarist John Bramwell, bassist Peter Jobson and drummer Andy Hargreaves were initially given three pieces of footage to score by way of an audition, and breaking with their past practice of 15 years of collective recordings in one room, they took a scene each and wrote individually.
Inspired by Bernard Hermann, John Cage and, less obviously, Walt Disney cartoons, they have produced 16 spontaneous instrumentals, playing to individual strengths but still with Kloot’s tensile teamwork.
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