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The Glue Ensemble
9+ albums
pianolondoncellobanjoviola
about
Founded in a hospital ward following a day’s drinking with Frank Black, the Glue Ensemble epitomise a mix of the astonishing, the poetic and the painfully mundane. School friends, self taught instrumentalists and song writers, Zee Ahmad and Ben Blaine had been in bands together for the best part of a decade but by the time Zee was hospitalised they had talked themselves off the stage and behind the scenes. Ben is an award winning filmmaker who, working with his brother Chris, had helped document London’s burgeoning and raucous New X music scene. Zee not only produced their videos but managed many of the bands. However not only did the passing of that Deptford moment see Zee fall out of love with music and bored of its industry but the fading of all that hopeful cacophony coincided with the death of Ben’s father. "at winter was the first of our now seemingly regular heavy snow falls. Against this bleak back drop they wrote “So# & Low” in a house prone to flooding. "is song not only captured the fragility of the moment but also saw them forge a new sound with instruments neither had previously played. Piano and the banjo soon became key elements of what the Glue Ensemble was to be. “Soft & Low” was also the song that encouraged cellist CJ Lodge to give up her oath of never again working with singers. Ben and Zee had also started working with French violinist and viola player Lyllou Christine, their instant rapport cemented when she created the icy and terrifying riff to “T
