Hannah Peel

Hannah Peel
Background information
Birth name	Hannah Mary Peel
Born	27 August 1985
Origin	Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Genres	Alternative / indie pop / electronic
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, instrumentalist
Instruments	Vocals, music box, Synthesiser, violin, trombone
Years active	2010–present
Labels	My Own Pleasure, Domino, Static Caravan, Full Time Hobby
Associated acts	The Magnetic North, John Foxx and the Maths
Website	hannahpeel.com

Hannah Mary Peel (born Craigavon, Northern Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger now based in London, England. Peel has released records as a solo artist, as a member of the psychogeography indie rock group The Magnetic North and with many other collaborators including the electronic group John Foxx and the Maths and Beyond the Wizards Sleeve.

Following several EPs, Peel's anticipated second solo album ‘Awake But Always dreaming’ was released by her own imprint record label My Own Pleasure Records, 23 September 2016. The album delves deep into the failure of brain neurons and memory and was awarded NO.1 Electronic Album of the Year 2016 by Electronic Sound Magazine.

In Manchester UK, May 2016 Peel premiered her new analogue synth-based, space-age alter-ego Mary Casio with an experimental piece combining analogue electronics and a 33-piece colliery brass band. Several shows are due to take place in the UK including performances in July 2017 as part of the Hull Capital of culture and at the Southbank Centre in London. A live album will be recorded during this time.

Music career

Performer / Orchestral Arranger / Session Musician

Hannah Peel has performed, collaborated and released records with the following artists: Beyond the Wizards Sleeve (Erol Alkan and Richard Norris), East India Youth, Wild Beasts, John Foxx, Blue Roses, Erland and the Carnival, Tunng, Philippe Cohen Solal Nitin Sawhney, The Unthanks, Gawain Erland Cooper, Producer Tommy McLaughlin, David Ford, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Duke Special, Blood Red Shoes, Diagrams, Rhodes, Sandi Thom and Rae Morris.

Rebox

Peel is well known for fabricating music boxes and composing, recording, and performing with them under the name record titles Rebox. Her music box compositions have been featured on numerous adverts, artist remixes and the 2012 film Anna Karenina featuring Keira Knightley.

A sold out, limited edition vinyl release called Rebox through independent record label Static Caravan Recordings, featured her unique music box compositions, including covers of Tainted Love made famous by Soft Cell, New Order's Blue Monday, OMD's Electricity and Cocteau Twins Sugar Hiccup. A limited edition of 300 were pressed onto 7-inch vinyl and promptly sold out. Her version of "Tainted Love" was used on American Horror Story trailers and in the UK an advert promoting summer storylines for ITV soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street.

Rebox 2 was released on 20 July 2015, featuring four new music box covers and three new instrumental pieces. A reworking of ‘Queen’ by Perfume genius begins this seamless 23 minute collection, followed by ‘Pale Green Ghosts’, by John Grant ‘Palace’ by Wild Beasts and ‘Heaven How Long’ by East India Youth.

Fabricstate EP(2014)

In February 2014, Peel released the EP Fabricstate, which features the song "Chloe", as featured in the British television series Dates.^[10] The artwork for the album was created by Karborn and designed by Jonathan Barnbrook. In 2013 she won a Royal Television Society award for best title music for the show Dates.

Scores, dance

Working primarily with Music box, Peel created several hand-punched pieces of music for the musical score to TeZukA about the life of manga artist Osamu Tezuka by the choreographer and dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

In 2012, Peel co-composed the music for the Sadlers Wells Theatre production Compass working alongside film maker and visual artist Tal Rosner and collaborating with choreographers from the Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui company, The Pina Bausch company, Jasmin Vardimon.

Discography

Albums

With The Magnetic North

• 2012: Orkney: Symphony of The Magnetic North (Full Time Hobby)
• 2016: Prospect of Skelmersdale (Full Time Hobby)

With John Foxx and the Maths

• 2013: Rhapsody (Metamatic Records)

With Beyond the Wizards Sleeve

• 2016: The Soft Bounce (Phantasy)

Solo Albums

EPs

With Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng)

• 2015: Henry J. Darger (Ya Basta Records)

Solo EPs

Singles

With The Magnetic North

• 2012: "Rackwick" (Full Time Hobby)
• 2012: “Bay of Skaill” (Full Time Hobby)
• 2014: “Hi Life” (Full Time Hobby)
• 2016: “Signs” (Full Time Hobby)
• 2016: “A Death In The Woods” (Full Time Hobby)
• 2016: “Run of the Mill” (Full Time Hobby)

Solo Singles

Performance / writing credits

Scores

• 2011: TeZukA by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – several tracks using hand-punched music
• 2012: Compass (Sadlers Wells Theatre) – co-composed with Tal Rosner
• 2012: Anna Karenina Soundtrack – several tracks
• 2013: Dates - Title Music

External links

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• Hannah Peel at Beggars Music Publishing