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Hemispheres  : II (FMR)

A cross-cultural instrumental suite uniting British and Australian musicians, featuring the resonant didgeridoo and rhythmic sticks of Paul Rider-Boon, the rich woodwinds of Susie Hodder-Williams and Chris Caldwell, atmospheric electronics and guitar from Sam Hodder, and the expressive voice of Clifton Bieundurry, spiritually merging indigenous sound with contemporary improv and electronica.
 

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Clifton Bieundurry-vocals

Paul Rider-Boon-didgeridoo, sticks

Chris Caldwell-saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet

Sam Hodder-electronics, keyboards, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals

Susie Hodder-Williams-flute, alto flute


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Label: FMR
Catalog ID: FMR710
Squidco Product Code: 35915

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: UK
Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel
Recorded in Dartmoor, Devon, UK, May 29th to June 2nd, 2021, and in London, UK, on October 7th, 2024.

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Hemispheres II is a collaborative project and follow on release that brings together British and Australian musicians, drawing inspiration from the spiritual landscapes and histories of both hemispheres. The album features the iconic vibrations of Paul Rider-Boon's didgeridoo and sticks, intertwined with the expressive woodwinds of flautist Susie Hodder-Williams and reed player Chris Caldwell. Sam Hodder's electronic and guitar textures provide an atmospheric foundation, while the haunting vocals of Clifton Bieundurry add depth and cultural resonance. Recorded in Dartmoor, Devon, UK, and London, the album offers a genre-defying instrumental suite that invites listeners into a meditative exploration of sound and place.


Artist Biographies

Clifton Jungurrayi Bieundurry is a Walmajarri artist from the Central Kimberley region of Western Australia. Born in Gnowangerup in 1973, he creates contemporary representations of his ancestral country, addressing social justice issues confronting his people. Bieundurry has collaborated with various musicians and artists, including performances in Los Angeles and Berlin for the Nomad Two Worlds exhibitions.

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Paul Rider-Boon is an artist, didgeridoo player, and art manager based in Broome, Western Australia. He founded Groovylips, a collective encompassing visual arts and music. Rider-Boon has recorded and performed with The John Butler Trio and collaborated with DJ/producer Paul Oakenfold. He co-founded the band Groovylips and the Yang with Clifton Bieundurry and has been involved in various international performances and exhibitions.

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"Chris graduated from the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama in 1986 having studied with Stephen Trier. As a performer he's been involved with some of Britain's leading contemporary composers and ensembles including The Mike Westbrook Orchestra, BCMG, Steve Martland Band, London Saxophonic, Michael Nyman Band and The Delta Saxophone Quartet.

Chris has also performed with many of the UK's leading orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, CBSO, Royal Opera House, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia. He has worked in the West End for the last fifteen years playing in many productions including Les Miserables, Cats, Chicago, Follies, City Of Angels, Guys and Dolls and La Cage aux Folles.

His commercial work has seen International tours with the London Concert Orchestra (Anton & Erin from Strictly Come Dancing), Shirley Bassey Orchestra in Russia, Lebanon, Turkey, Cairo and the UK plus tours of Asia, Japan and Europe with the Michael Nyman Band, Grahamophones, and for a variety of theatre groups.

Since 2009, Chris has been exploring and developing a new area of improvisations and compositions with Susie Hodder-Williams, inspired by the natural history of Dartmoor. The Mariner's Way CD is the first result of this fruitful partnership which was launched at the Greenaway Barn Gallery as part of the Devon Open Studios. In 2010, he set up a performance series, in Devon, called Music on the Edge which has found its first home in the engaging Long Room, Drewsteignton."

-Delta Saxophone Quartet Website (http://www.deltasax.com/musician.php?mus_id=1)
4/9/2025

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"Sam Hodder is a producer and songwriter based in North London. He has worked with the likes of Family Stereo, Sally Dolphin and Dani Kobrin alongside releasing two albums, two EPs and several singles of solo material under his own name and as VOTEFORSAMMO. His production has been featured on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 5 Live and on Radio X among others and has seen coverage from publications such as Wonderland Magazine, Still Listening Magazine and Independent Clauses."

-Sam Hodder Website (https://www.samhodder.com/about)
4/9/2025

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"Susie Hodder-Williams studied the flute at the Royal Northern College of Music and read English at the University of York. She works as a freelance musician with many of the UK's leading orchestras and ballet companies.

Her own interests stem from Japanese contemporary music, meditation and the use of breath; having studied many alternative health practices, she is inspired by how music can be a pathway towards mental health, wellbeing and clarity.

She has recorded a series of CDs for FMR records exploring these worlds: Mariner's Way, 2010, The Tao of Homeopathy, 2012, Three Meditations, 2013, The Sound Within, 2014, Coracle of Life, 2019 and a new CD for solo bass flute, to be released next year.

In 2021, Susie was offered an Artist-in-Residency with Strike-a-Light, at the University of Gloucester.

She was commissioned by André Wallace in 2018, to create music to accompany his body of work, The Voyage. This resulted in the CD, Coracle of Life, which accompanied his sculpture exhibition between October 2018 and January 2019, at Poole Museum.

Susie has commissioned other composers to write for solo flute and flute and chamber ensembles. These works have been recorded by FMR records and published by Schott, Dobermann, Yppan and a number of other publishers. Future commissions under discussion for 2020-22, are from Gwilym Simcock, Joe Duddell, Paul Honey, Paul Englishby, Athena Corcoran-Tadd and David Lancaster.

The international composer, Stephen Goss wrote her a new piece for solo flute, entitled The Sea of the Edge, which was first performed at the Guildford International Music Festival on March 21st 2011. She released the world première recording of this work on the FMR label, as part of the CD, Northern Lights, which was given a four star review from the Independent. In September 2011, she toured the US and Canada giving the US Première of The Sea of the Edge in Downtown Music Gallery, New York. She gave its Ukraine Première at the Two Days, Two Nights, Contemporary Music Festival in Odessa, Ukraine, in April 2012. Other commissions include works by Ian Vine, Tansy Davies, Joe Duddell and Philip Cashian.

She has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician on In Tune & Late Junction, played at the BBC Proms and recorded several contemporary and chamber CDs for FMR records. Her recordings have received worldwide radio play on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ, ABC Australia, NZ Radio, local radio stations in the US, WDR, ÖRF and VPRO. The music from Mariner's Way was used for a documentary on national German radio station, WDR.

Concert tours have taken her to the Far East, Europe, Ukraine, US and Canada. In 2004, Susie was invited by the British Council for a three week tour giving recitals as a duo, all around the island and meeting the inspirational Bunun tribe in the heart of Taiwan.

As a concerto soloist she has played many times at St Martins-in-th-Fields with both London Concertante and the Belmont Ensemble. She also performed concertos in Canterbury Cathedral and in other churches around the UK with the New London Sinfonia.

In some of her orchestral work, she has performed with the London Mozart Players, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Concert Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, New London Sinfonia, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, English National Ballet, the Orchestra of the Swan and Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Susie teaches in the specialist music department at Wells Cathedral School, one of the UK's top music schools. She also works with artists, writers and musicians on exploring the nature of creativity both in a one to one setting and through a series of retreats in the UK and Spain. She teaches a form of active meditation. She was invited to give a talk and workshop about her work at the ISM Health and Wellbeing Conference, at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Music. Since the lockdown she has been working with students from the Universidad Panamericana between 2020-22 through a collaboration with the Shakespeare Sinfonia."

-Susie Hodder-Williams Website (https://susiehodder-williams.com/biography.php)
4/9/2025

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1. 12AM (Wander) 4:10

2. 2AM (Break) 3:05

3. 4AM (Nowhere) 5:21

4. 6am (I Tried) 4:38

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