Danny Mulhern - To release new album 'Singing through Others' !!!

September 16th 2022

Album Release

Danny Mulhern shows what he can do on his new album

‘Singing through Others’ will be released on the 16th of September via Enate Music / Kontor Media, and is the fifth album and first independent release from composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Danny Mulhern. It continues his collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra (Radiohead, Actress, Jonny Greenwood, Terry Riley) and was recorded at the Church Studios, Crouch End and Angels Studios, Islington between 2019 and 2022.

Ahead of the forthcoming album, Danny Mulhern is pleased to share the video for his new single ‘We are not Machines’, which was released today 5th of August. Since scoring the critically acclaimed Hollywood film ‘What They Had’ (Directed by Elizabeth Chomko) in 2018, Mulhern has been examining the motivations behind his work. ‘Singing through Others’ is essentially a meditation on relationships, taking its title from the words of poet and philosopher Nora Bateson, who also appears on the album. The work of philosopher Iain McGilchrist, whose work Mulhern has followed closely, has also inspired the titles of three of the pieces on the album ‘We are not Machines’, ‘Everything Flows’ and ‘The Fertile Night’.

In contrast to 2020’s critically acclaimed ‘Flow States’ which saw Danny Mulhern exploring the relationships between improvising musicians and the experience of flow states, ‘Singing through Others’ expands outwards from the previous work Mulhern has done with musicians from the London Contemporary Orchestra, and introduces a much wider palate of tempos and sonic colours. Band instruments and electronics blend organically with orchestral players with the entire album cohering along the background of the importance of relationships and the album features Oliver Coates (Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead, Mica Levy) and violinist and artist/film composer, Galya Bisengalieva.

Danny Mulhern releases instrumental music and writes music for film, most working with small ensembles, combining contemporary classical with other genres. His cinematic approach to composition led him to write scores for Hollywood films and TV. Credits include ‘What they Had’ (2018), the BBC crime drama ‘Silent Witness’, major BBC documentaries including ‘Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal’, ‘The Natural World’, ‘How art made the World’ plus entertainment shows with Derren Brown, Matt Lucas and Simon Pegg.