Philip Owusu

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Liebesleid

With only a few weeks to album deadline Andreas asked me for a one minute opera track. He had an amazing soprano in mind for it, Sigrid Matilda Thordsen. We checked out a few recordings of hers and we were both blown away. I wrote and arranged Liebeslied, with lyrics by Knud Romer.

Svært At Være Fantastisk

From Andreas Odbjergs album, Un Hommage, featuring the brilliant Emma Sehested Høeg. I desperately wanted a cuica for the track and found Benjamin Winding, coincidentally also my daughter’s capoeira coach. Benjamin ended up layering all percussion tracks in the outro bit – star quality! Again, brother Kristoffer Sjelberg on drums and I managed to sneak in my daughter on the choir. 

Into The Blue

Into The Blue (by Ömer Sami) premieres at the 2023 Hot Docs festival.

Empire

Off August Rosenbaum’s “songs, people, together” album. A collab-track with August and Robin and featuring Kool Keith and Moses Boyd on drums

Eek

Eek was the working title of a track I did back in 2004 with help from my old friend Aengus Rathbone. 

In February 2022 Eek saw new life and was picked up, reworked and released with the super talented Leven Kali and my old friend Robin Hannibal.

Kiss Me, Never

Kiss Me, Never by Anna Eline Friis-Rasmussen premieres at the 2022 CPH:DOX festival.

The film takes place in Beirut. When considering instruments for the score I searched for sounds that weren’t linked to any specific culture or musical tradition. I ended up using two plastic tubes, a length of rope, a Glockenspiel and a microphone.

Andreas Odbjerg

Andreas asked me to write Gear for his debut album Hjem Fra Fabrikken (currently no. 1 on the Danish album chart) He had a clear Burt Bacharach reference and thought it could work well as an album opener. It features La Classe Moyenne and I brought in my favourite artist Aku on background vocals. 

Bionic

Bionic is off the Subs album that I never released. It features Xia Liu on Guzheng.

I always wanted to do an arrangement for the Guzheng. It’s pentatonic so we had to record in layers of different tunings to get the chords right.

Goodnight (Version)

Another version of Goodnight from Subs. I think this was the one I was going with for the album

by Karoline Rahbek

Climate Change Festival

Climate & Democracy Festival podcast. Collaboration w. Jeppe Wolmer. The podcast producers wanted modules so they could control and design each episode. Here are a couple

Modules

Invictus Games

Mike Spooner’s Invictus Games film was previewed by a group of invited guests: Danish veterans competing in the 2022 Games, representatives from the Danish Defence and Prince Frederik.

Sad Boys

Sad Boys off Niia’s second album from 2020. Collab. w. Niia Bertino, Robin Hannibal and August Rosenbaum 

Calling Out

Calling Out off August’s album Vista (2017). Collab w. August, Robin Hannibal 

Day

Day from Quadrons brilliant debut album. Collab. w. Coco and Robin Hannibal

The Followers

Goodnight

Goodnight as featured on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Bubblers. The amazing Francis Osei on drums  

Be Known

Owusu & Hannibal remix of Up Hygh’s track – featuring Eska

Living With Owusu & Hannibal