Lunn Poly Travel

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Lunn Poly Travel

Lunn Poly Travel

Blue Yates is a classically trained guitarist who brings a Latin flavor to his beautiful compositions. Based in the Midlands, England, Blue is well traveled having previously lived and worked in Milan and performed in New York, Barcelona, London and Madrid. This goes some way to explain how his eclectic music manages to encompass the shared identity of a shrinking modern world, whilst retaining a timeless, melancholic classicism.

Music For Film

Blue's most recent offering was the album Music for Film. As the title would suggest, this album has a cinematic vision to it, creating sweeping vistas of sound with layered guitars and interwoven samples of speech. From the lilting opening bars of "Natale", to the heartfelt, plucked strings of "Jennifer's Tears" the music creates haunting pictures in your mind. The films it evokes are dreamlike movies such as Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas. This album was released after Blue's more traditional classical renditions 8 Nocturnes and Luna Eterno and it shows a maturity in his style combined with a modern twist. The fourth track on Music For Film, "Full Moon Rise", even brings to mind ambient electronica group The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds".

Teaching Johnny Depp To Play The Guitar?

Blue, is a charismatic figure. He can seem an intimidating presence; a sinewy, intellectual vagabond, but in person he is articulate and funny. He weaves fantastic anecdotes which may or may not be true such as how he sampled the noise of a dying piano (apparently true - he played me the raw footage) and how he taught Johnny Depp to play guitar for the film Chocolat (almost certainly not true). Interviewing him is fun, but afterwards it is a tricky task to decipher the truth from the teasing.