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DANIEL LEA IS A COMPOSER WHOSE WORK IS OFTEN BUILT FROM ACOUSTIC HARMONIC LAYERS THAT COALESCE INTO 4K WORLDS OF DENSE, DETAILED LANDSCAPES OF SOUND. PUSHING ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL PROCESSES TO THEIR LIMITS, THE RESULTING AURAL UNIVERSES FOUND ON LEA’S FIVE COLLABORATIVE ALBUMS ARE RICH, POLYVALENT, TRANSPORTIVE. IT’S ALSO WORTH POINTING OUT THAT HE’S BROUGHT THIS TALENT INTO THE FIELD OF FILM SCORES AS WELL AS BEING THE FOUNDER OF THE ACCLAIMED GOLDEN HUM STUDIO WHICH WORKS IN HIGH-END LUXURY ADVERTISING.
AN EVER-EVOLVING ARTIST AND LIVE PERFORMER, HE HAS COLLABORATED WITH THE LIKES OF AUSTRALIAN ELECTRONIC COMPOSER BEN FROST, THE 80S POP ICON DAVID SYLVIAN, SOUND ARTIST YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN (JOHANN JOHANNSSON) AND LEO ABRAHAMS (BRIAN ENO/JON HOPKINS). MOST RECENTLY HE WORKED ON ADDITIONAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN FOR RIDLEY SCOTT’S RAISED BY WOLVES WITH COMPOSER BEN FROST.
RECORDING UNDER THE NAMES L A N D, HELIOCHRYSUM AND CURA MACHINES LEA HAS RELEASED THREE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUMS WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS BASED INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL, IMPORTANT RECORDS. THE FIRST TWO OF THESE RELEASES, NIGHT WITHIN (2012) AND ANOXIA (2016) RECEIVED FAVOURABLE REVIEWS FROM INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, SUCH AS WIRE MAGAZINE, BOOMKAT, BRAINWASHED, TINY MIXTAPES AND A CLOSER LISTEN. UNDER THE MORE RECENT PSEUDONYM CURA MACHINES, LEA HAS BEEN PERFORMING A NEW AUDIO-VISUAL SET WITH FREQUENT COLLABORATOR, RAINER KOHLBERGER (A BERLIN-BASED VISUAL ARTIST AND DESIGNER). IN 2018 CURA MACHINES GAINED WIDE RECOGNITION AND EFFUSIVE PRAISE FOR ITS BLISTERING PERFORMANCES AT BOTH MOOGFEST, THE ANNUAL MUSIC, ART AND TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND ATONAL, BERLIN’S MAJOR FESTIVAL OF SONIC AND VISUAL ART AT KRAFTWERK BERLIN. 2021 SEES THE RELEASE OF HELIOCHRYSUM’S WE BECOME MIST ALBUM BEING RELEASED ON THE REYKJAVIK LABEL BEDROOM COMMUNITY (BEN FROST/NICO MUHLY/LYRA PRAMUK).
ALONGSIDE THIS CAREER AS AN ARTIST, LEA HAS A LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER THAT HAS SEEN HIM SCORE FEATURE FILMS, TOUR WITH AWARD-WINNING CHOREOGRAPHERS. IN 2011 HE ESTABLISHED ONE OF THE PREMIUM CREATIVE DESIGN STUDIOS IN THE WORLD, GOLDEN HUM. COMMISSIONED TO PRODUCE MUSICAL SCORES AND SOUNDTRACKS BY CREATIVE AGENCIES AND FILM DIRECTORS ACROSS THE GLOBE, HIS WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS FOR BRANDS SUCH AS HERMAN MILLER, RIMOWA, MARANTZ, PRADA, DIOR, APPLE, CHANEL, NIKE, VOGUE, LOUIS VUITTON, NOWNESS, MONCLER, BMW, TAG HEUER, BUICK & MORE.
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