Simon Fisher Turner
Simon Fisher Turner is an English composer, musician and actor, born in Dover in 1954. A teenage pop singer and screen actor in the early 1970s, he later turned to film music and sound collage. He is best known for his long collaboration with Derek Jarman, scoring Caravaggio, The Last of England, The Garden and Blue, and for records built from his own field and everyday recordings. Simon Fisher Turner made his debut album for Jonathan King's UK Records in 1973, played in The The, recorded as The King of Luxembourg and formed the duo Deux Filles with Colin Lloyd Tucker.
Longing
Longing is a new work by maverick multi-instrumentalist David Coulter with contributions from Julia Kent and Simon Fisher Turner. 'This piece was composed to accompany the Walks of Sadness I was taking every day during the Spring of 2020 as the World…
Under The Arches
Where to begin with a figure like Simon Fisher Turner? From teenage stage and screen star to illustrious recording artist for Creation and Mute and score composer of Caravaggio, Blue and The Epic of Everest - via a stint with The The and collaboratio…
Symphony Of A Great City: Backing Track
Compact disc in digipak packaging. Limited edition of 250 copies. Simon Fisher Turner's Symphony of a Great City: Backing Track in autor's own words. This score was commissioned for the film “Symphony of a Great City” by Walther Ruttmann. The musici…
New Modern Music For Political Documentaries
Compact disc in digipak packaging. Limited edition of 250 copies. Simon Fisher Turner's New Modern Music For Political Documentaries is a series of soundscapes intended for both general listening and more so as a utility. A sort of library music for …
Care
Editions Mego is proud to present the first outing from the legendary English musician, songwriter, composer and producer Simon Fisher Turner alongside the highly acclaimed emerging Swedish sound artist Klara Lewis. Care is a unique outing rife with …
Picture From Darkness
*2022 stock. 300 copies limited edition* All electronic music is composed and played by Sft, with Lucy Railton on the cello, and this was recorded by Lucy herself in Berlin on August 21st 2016. Heather Leigh plays laptop steel guitar, and this was re…
Derek Jarman Super8 - Soundtracks For Derek Jarman
A stunning set of music created by Simon Fisher Turner in 2010 as soundtrack to some of the early Super8 movies directed by Derek Jarman, released in an uncoated cardboard DVD-sized tri-fold digipack. Room 1 is processed by Simon Fisher Turner from s…
Savage Songs of Brutality and Food. By the Extreme Angels of Parody
The worlds of sound art and child-rearing collide on an album of children's songs and chants collaged and transformed by Simon Fisher Turner
Life Recordings From Prospect Cottage and the Ness
**126 copies** The life recordings on this C40 cassette are raw, unedited transfers from Dungeness made with a Sony Walkman Professional WM-D6 by Simon Fisher Turner. With the voice of Derek Jarman recorded on 20 June 1992 in his cottage as he begins…
Giraffe
Editions Mego present the latest opus from legendary British composer, actor, sound designer and all-round fine human, Simon Fisher Turner. Giraffe is a new major work which blurs the lines between sound design and song, machine severity and narrati…
Shishapangma EP
Terre Thaemlitz's Comatonse Recordings presents a cut from English polymath Simon Fisher Turner's 2013 soundtrack to the 1924 film The Epic of Everest. Turner's windswept, quietly pulsating "Shishapangma" is another iterations of a long and colorfu…
Ghosts of Industrial Sunday
Here comes a new welcome entry in the ‘private sounds’ series of the now growing 13 catalogue. "Ghosts of Industrial Sunday" is a short film by Maria Assunta Karini and Francesco Paolo Paladino, whose music were composed by Simon Fisher Turner. This …
The Great White Silence
As a soundtrack, The Great White Silence probably exceeded everyone's highest expectations, as it manages to be sublime and deeply emotionally resonant without ever becoming too forceful. In fact, it may very well be a masterpiece, though I won't kn…
De Dentro Hacia Afuera
This is a cassette-only limited edition of 250 copies. From child actor to teenage pop idol, from self-confessed "extreme sound freak" to acclaimed solo recording artist, the UK-based Simon Turner Fisher's career has been nothing if not varied. His e…