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Phelan Sheppard

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Website
  
Official website

Genres
  
Electronica, Folk music

Albums
  
Harps Old Master

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Instruments
  
String instruments woodwind keyboards percussion

Associated acts
  
State River Widening Smile Down Upon Us Ellis Island Sound Keiron Phelan & David Sheppard Continental Film Night

Members
  
Keiron Phelan David Sheppard

Origin
  
London, United Kingdom (1996)

Record labels
  
The Leaf Label, Static Caravan Recordings

Similar
  
Adrian Klumpes, Clue to Kalo, Triosk, Essie Jain, Icy Demons

Phelan Sheppard are musicians Keiron Phelan and David Sheppard. They are based in London, England, and play mainly instrumental music. Phelan and Sheppard have long been associated with each other, having first met as teenagers with a mutual appreciation of Can, Cluster and Brian Eno and formed a band.

In 1996, the pair united after some time in other projects. This partnership recorded under their own names and, with percussionist Jon Steele, as State River Widening.

Sheppard is also a founder member of Ellis Island Sound and is a member of Smile Down Upon Us, The Wisdom of Harry, and Continental Film Night. Phelan is founder member of Smile Down Upon Us (with Japanese singer moomLooo) and is a member of Orla Wren. Both have collaborated with numerous other musicians and undertake arrangement and production work. Their music has been widely featured on television.

Originally styling themselves as Keiron Phelan, David Sheppard they released the album O Little Stars on Rocket Girl in 2002. Subsequently Phelan Sheppard released the album, Harps Old Master, on The Leaf Label in 2006. A collaborative single with Niandra Ladies on Static Caravan was released in 2007.

Songs

Weaving SongHarps Old Master · 2006
Broken In The Wrong PlacesHarps Old Master · 2006
Oriental StarHarps Old Master · 2006

References

Phelan Sheppard Wikipedia


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