Unsigned artist's self released recording taken up by Sony

Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris: Soundtrack includes recording made on a portable MP3 recorder.

Woody received a CD from a fan, and enjoyed it so much that he included one of the tracks in his film Midnight in Paris. Sony clearly share the master directors respect for the recording as they have included it on their official soundtrack CD for the film, due for release any day now. The CD was self-recorded, produced and released by bassist and composer Peter Williams. On his website www.peterwilliams.dk he explains how he sent the CD (Swing 41) to Woody Allen as a gift. It came as a complete shock to him when almost two years later he received an email requesting permission to use one of the tracks (Seul Ce Soir) in a major Hollywood film.

”At first the email made no sense to me, I had to think for a while before I realised who 'Mr. Allen' might be”

The success of the recording is made all the more remarkable as the piece of music used in the film was recorded live in concert by placing the Zoom H4 protable MP3 recorder a few feet in front of the band and pressing record. Very little post production was invlolved.

”from time to time you just get lucky with a recording, all the study, science and preperation helps, but there's no substitute for putting the microphone in the right place and just playing from the heart”

Peter Williams is a self taught musician from England, he moved to Denmark in 2004 after touring with a circus band there for 3 years. He now plays double bass with many different jazz musicians and writes his own music for his quartet 2econd Nature who released their debut album – About Time - a few weeks ago.

Peter Williams, independent musician, composer, music producer.

Peter Williams
Bergthorasgade 3, 2.t.h.
2300 København S
Denmark

peter@andallthatjazz.dk

This release was published on openPR.