C Duncan
C Duncan (born Christopher Duncan, 29 July 1989) is a Scottish composer and… Read Full Bio ↴C Duncan (born Christopher Duncan, 29 July 1989) is a Scottish composer and musician. His debut album, Architect, was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize.
The son of two classical musicians, he was surrounded by music throughout his childhood. He initially took up piano and viola. His teens led him to school bands – learning to play guitar, bass and drums – but did little to quell his fascination with the composition and performance of classical music. He eventually enrolled in Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) to study music composition, where his pieces were performed by various ensembles across the UK.
To hear C Duncan’s music now is to grasp those two common threads between his interests in classical and modern music. The pieces that make up his forthcoming debut LP are formed from lush choral harmonies and acoustic instrumentation, textured like contemporary dreampop and all recorded at home in Glasgow on his bedroom studio setup, gradually built up one layer and one instrument at a time. The results of this methodical and isolationist recording process give us charming lo-fi folk with the harmonic width of choral composition, the sweetness of barbershop and the rough eloquence that has so readily soundtracked Glasgow over the past decades.
He is also an accomplished painter, naming Grant Wood and Gerhard Richter as influences. His work has been exhibited throughout Scotland and he provides cover art for his own records, expressing the same musical ideas through painted image.
The son of two classical musicians, he was surrounded by music throughout his childhood. He initially took up piano and viola. His teens led him to school bands – learning to play guitar, bass and drums – but did little to quell his fascination with the composition and performance of classical music. He eventually enrolled in Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) to study music composition, where his pieces were performed by various ensembles across the UK.
To hear C Duncan’s music now is to grasp those two common threads between his interests in classical and modern music. The pieces that make up his forthcoming debut LP are formed from lush choral harmonies and acoustic instrumentation, textured like contemporary dreampop and all recorded at home in Glasgow on his bedroom studio setup, gradually built up one layer and one instrument at a time. The results of this methodical and isolationist recording process give us charming lo-fi folk with the harmonic width of choral composition, the sweetness of barbershop and the rough eloquence that has so readily soundtracked Glasgow over the past decades.
He is also an accomplished painter, naming Grant Wood and Gerhard Richter as influences. His work has been exhibited throughout Scotland and he provides cover art for his own records, expressing the same musical ideas through painted image.
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C Duncan Lyrics
And I Here in my low I wrote I follow a sailor And sail…
Architect I'll take the plans this time And I'll change them all,…
Bell Toll Safe uncertainty Out of mind out of mind Save it for eternit…
Blasé I gotta do what I came here to do I wanna…
Care I lay me down to wash my tainted wings I'll change…
Dance [Chorus] "187 don't stop" - [Dr. Dre] "Cause it's 187" - […
Do I Hear? One came on like one on a better man A better…
For We came so by to the sea silently, So when we…
Garden Take me out to the garden Go and colour me blue I…
He Believes in Miracles I believe in miracles (now that I know) I believe in…
He Came from the Sun He came from the sun with flowers On a boat made…
Health How important is it to you If our house that's made…
Here To Here I took all my profit to town And spread all my…
Holiday Home Magnolia changing the scenery to Another weekend with you Ma…
I'll Be Gone By Winter I'll be gone by winter. I'll have said goodbye, To wind and…
Impossible I sat and wait I sat and waited here for you And…
Like You Do You've come again You've come again For someone else but you…
New Water How long I'll wait for. How long to go, to go. How…
Nothing More Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I'm feeling like nothing mo…
Novices It's so unstoppable, It seems so new. But since we're still …
Other Side Calling out to me this time Coming up to see things…
Pulses & Rain It's not an area, it's not an area For homes, for…
Reverie I sometimes think about it My life under the sea I wanted…
Say So falling I again in the aiding tar, So stall the…
Silence and Air Tell us where we want to go and take us…
Somebody Else's Home I wanted more of something else The radio's on like all…
Stuck Here with You I took all my profit to town And spread all my…
Talk Talk Talk Talk talk talk we're a long way away We're on the…
The Wedding Song I don’t need anything Nothing at all No I don’t need…
Wanted to Want it Too Get your fix on Friday night Get your fix on Friday…
Wrong Side of the Door It's only for a while anyway till I stop thinking about…