John Parish
English musician and record producer
John Parish
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Parish performing live in July 2011
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Born |
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1959-04-11
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11 April 1959
(age
64)
Yeovil , England |
Origin | Bristol , England |
Genres | Alternative rock , experimental rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, composer, producer |
Instrument(s) | Guitar, keyboards, drums, bass guitar, trombone, percussion, vocals |
Years active | 1983–present |
Labels | Thrill Jockey , Dreamboat |
Website | john-parish.com |
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John Parish (born 11 April 1959) is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer.
Parish is best known for his work with singer-songwriter PJ Harvey . [1] He has also worked with such artists as Eels , Aldous Harding , Tracy Chapman , Giant Sand , and Sparklehorse . His sister is the actor Sarah Parish . [2] Parish was born in Yeovil , Somerset and lives in Bristol . In 1980s, his girlfriend was Maria Mochnacz . [3]
Career
His first record release was a single "Mind Made" by the British new wave band, Thieves Like Us (1980). [4] In 1982, he formed the band Automatic Dlamini, with Rob Ellis . The changing line-up of Automatic Dlamini included Polly Harvey from 1988 until 1991. Automatic Dlamini recorded three albums: The D is For Drum (1987), [5] Here Catch Shouted his Father (1990 – unreleased but available as a bootleg), and From A Diva to a Diver (1992). [6] By the time From A Diva to a Diver was released, Harvey had left to form the PJ Harvey trio with ex-Dlamini members Rob Ellis and Ian Olliver, and Parish was playing guitar with Marc Moreland 's band The Ensenada Joyride. [7]
In 1986 Parish had begun a parallel career as a record producer working with UK bands including The Chesterfields , The Brilliant Corners , The Caretaker Race and The Becketts. In 1995 he co-produced PJ Harvey's " To Bring You My Love ", on which he also played guitar, drums, percussion and organ. [8] He co-wrote and produced The Eels album Souljacker (2001), and played guitar on the world tour that accompanied its release. He has produced and/or played on a number of Howe Gelb / Giant Sand albums and frequently appears onstage with them. [9] Parish produced the Giant Sand album Chore of Enchantment (2000), and a photograph of his wedding in Tucson in 1998 was used as the cover for the 2011 re-release of the record.
He also began working as a film composer in 1998, writing the score for Belgian director Patrice Toye 's debut film, Rosie . [10] Parish's score won the Jury Special Appreciation prize at the 1999 Bonn Film & TV Music Biennale. He has since scored another ten soundtracks.
Parish has now worked on seven albums with Harvey, including two co-written albums: Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996) and A Woman A Man Walked By (2009). He played in the PJ Harvey touring band (guitar/drums/keyboards) from 1994–1999, from 2009–2012 and from 2015–2017. [11] He co-produced and played on To Bring You My Love (1995), White Chalk (2007), the Mercury Prize winning Let England Shake (2011), The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016) and I Inside the old year Dying (2023).
He has produced and played on two albums by New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding , two This Is the Kit albums and two albums by Malian artist Rokia Traoré . He has also collaborated several times with two established European stars, the Italian singer Nada and Belgian singer Arno .
Partial discography
Solo
- Rosie (2000)
- How Animals Move (2002)
- Once Upon a Little Time (2005)
- She, A Chinese Original Soundtrack (2010)
- Screenplay (2013)
- Bird Dog Dante (2018)
Scores
- Rosie dir. Patrice Toye (1998)
- Water [12] dir. Jennifer Houlton (2004)
- Waltz [13] (2006) dir. Norbert Ter
- Nowhere Man dir. Patrice Toye (2008) [14]
- Going South dir. Sébastien Lifshitz (2009)
- She, a Chinese dir. Xiaolu Guo (2010)
- Little Black Spiders dir. Patrice Toye (2012) [14]
- Tench dir. Patrice Toye (2019) [14]
- Sister dir. Ursula Meier (2012)
- The Farmer's Wife dir. Francis Lee (director) (2012)
- Le Passé Devant Nous dir. Nathalie Teirlinck (2016)
Collaborations
- John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey – Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996): Writer, Producer, Various Instruments
- Spleen – Soundtrack To Spleen (1997): Co-writer, guitar, percussion
- Spleen – Little Scratches (1998): Co-writer, guitar, percussion
- Eels – Souljacker (2001): Producer, co-writer, various instruments
- PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman a Man Walked By (2009): Writer, producer, various instruments
- Playing Carver [15] (2014): Producer, guitar, vocals
- Kira Skov - Spirit Tree (2021)
- Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (2022): Producer, co-writer, various instruments
Productions
- PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love (1995): Producer, Guitar, Organ, Percussion, Drums
- 16 Horsepower – Low Estate (1997): Producer, Various Instruments
- Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment (2000): Producer
- Bettie Serveert – Private Suit (2000) : Producer
- Thou – Put Us in Tune (2000): Producer, mix
- Dominique A – Auguri (2001): Producer, various instruments
- Morning Star – My Place in The Dust (2001): Producer
- Sparklehorse – It's a Wonderful Life (2001): Co-Producer, Various Instruments
- Tracy Chapman – Let it Rain (2002): Producer
- Thou – I like Girls in Russia (2004): Producer
- Morning Star – The Opposite is True (2004): Producer
- Jennie DeVoe – Fireworks and Karate Supplies (2004): Producer
- Nada – Tutto l'amore che mi manca (2004): Producer
- Afterhours – Ballate per piccole iene (2005): Producer e guitar on Ballata per la mia piccola iena
- Dionysos – Monsters in Love (2005): Producer
- PJ Harvey – White Chalk (2007): Producer
- Tom Brosseau – Cavalier (2007): Producer
- Magic Rays – Off the Map (2007) : Producer
- Marta Collica – Pretty and Unsafe (2007) : Producer
- Afterhours – I Milanesi Ammazzano il sabato (14 ricette di quotidiana macabra felicità) (2008): Producer
- Jennie DeVoe - Strange Sunshine (2009): Producer
- This Is The Kit – Krulle Bol (2008): Producer, drums
- Cesare Basile – Storia di Caino (2008): Producer, guitar.
- Marta Collica – About Anything (2009): Producer
- Maika Makovski – Maika Makovski (2010): Producer, guitar, drums, bass, banjo
- Kira – Look Up Ahead (2010): Producer
- Zender – Sunday Kids (2010): Mix
- Nive Nielsen and The Deer Children – Nive Sings (2010): Producer, drums, guitar, bongos
- Peggy Sue – Acrobats (2011): Producer
- PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (2011): Producer, guitar, drums, vocals, keyboards, trombone
- Arno – Future Vintage (2012): Producer, guitars, drums
- KT Tunstall – Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon (2013): Mix
- Jay Diggins – Searching (2013): Co-Producer with Jay Diggins, various instruments
- Mazgani – Common ground (2013): Co-Producer with Mick Harvey, various instruments
- Jenny Hval – Innocence is Kinky (2013): Producer, guitar, drums, variophon
- Rokia Traoré – Beautiful Africa (2013): Producer
- Jennie DeVoe – Radiator: The Bristol Sessions (2014): Producer
- Arno – Human Incognito (2016): Producer
- PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016): Co-Producer, various instruments, backing vocals
- Rokia Traoré - Ne so (2016): Producer
- Nadine Khouri – The Salted Air (2017): Producer, various instruments, backing vocals
- Aldous Harding – Party (2017): Producer
- This Is the Kit - Moonshine Freeze (2017): Producer
- Nada – È un momento difficile, tesoro (2019): Producer, Various Instruments
- Aldous Harding – Designer (2019): Producer [16] [17]
- Jesca Hoop - Stonechild (2019)
- Arno - Santeboutique (2020)
- Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (2021)
- The Goon Sax - Mirror II (2021)
- Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (2022): Producer, Various Instruments
- Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork (2022)
- PJ Harvey - I Inside the old year Dying (2023): Producer, Various Instruments
Featured musician on
- PJ Harvey – Is This Desire? (1998): Various Instruments
- Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain (2000) : guitar, drums
- M. Ward – Transistor Radio (2005) : drums
- M. Ward – "Primitive Girl" on A Wasteland Companion (2012): drums, percussion
- Perfume Genius - " Too Bright " (2014): drums
References
- ↑ [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Parish, John and Sarah (2 April 2009). "John and Sarah Parish in conversation" . The Guardian . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ "Maria Mochnacz's best shots" . The Guardian . 18 October 2019. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019 . Retrieved 27 January 2021 .
- ↑ "Thieves Like Us (2) - Mind Made" . Discogs.com . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ "Automatic Dlamini - The D Is For Drum" . Discogs.com . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ "Automatic Dlamini - From A Diva To A Diver" . Discogs.com . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ "Marc Moreland - The Official Site" . 4 February 2012. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012 . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ To Bring You My Love (Island Records 1995) Sleeve Notes.
- ↑ "home" . Howegelb.com . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ "Rosie" . IMDb.com . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ "John Parish official website" . Johnparish.com . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
- ↑ "Water" . IMDb.com . Retrieved 15 August 2020 .
- ↑ "Waltz" . IMDb.com . Retrieved 15 August 2020 .
- 1 2 3 "Patrice Toye" . IMDb.com . Retrieved 15 August 2020 .
- ↑ "PLAYING CARVER - John Parish" . Archived from the original on 29 November 2014 . Retrieved 20 November 2014 .
- ↑ "John Parish" . 12 April 2011. Archived from the original on 12 April 2011 . Retrieved 15 August 2020 .
- ↑ "John Parish" . Discogs.com . Retrieved 11 May 2020 .
External links
- Official website
- Cat On The Wall Interview
- June 2009 Interview with L.A. Record
- PJ Harvey and John Parish interview with The Guardian writer John Harris
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