Composer and sound designer Bob Holroyd has released “The Surrey Ambience Service” / “Searching“. This is is the second release on the new label Real World X.
These two new, complimentary pieces were written during the last 18 months of pandemic uncertainty and they use repetition and layers of sound to reflect the, often contradictory, emotions everyone has experienced in this period.
‘The Surrey Ambience Service’ offers the antidote to the feelings of tension and uncertainty. “My music has become a lot about space, not rushing, letting the ideas gradually form,” says Holroyd. “I love to explore the textures of different sounds, and how these can be combined to make a sort of sonic collage. This track definitely is about the waiting, the tension of not knowing what will happen. But things can and do develop within us, layer by layer and we do move to a different internal space – we just can’t always push it.”
The video for ‘The Surrey Ambience Service’ was directed and produced by Simon Morton, Orange Eye Ltd. “The video is quite bleak in some ways. It started with the concept of evolving, which my music often does, as do ideas, but it also resonates with some of my worries about where humans are actually going, and what we’re doing. Will we invent a way to evolve into something more – better, worse, or just different. Or will we survive at all? Even when things on the surface seem great we’re probably more conscious now of how close we are to our whole society crashing down.”
Bob Holroyd has released 9 studio albums. He has also been remixed by some of the most important names in electronic music and had his work used extensively in mainstream TV and films, such as The Dark Knight, The Center Of The World, Lost, True Blood, The Sopranos and many others, most notably the multi award winning documentary ‘Living In The Future’s Past’ produced and narrated by Jeff Bridges. Last month, Holroyd released ‘Mangled Pianos’ / ‘Steal’.