A collection of musicians and storytellers
Explorers
Society
Live music and cinema, played in the same room. We take audiences through the past and the present, the real and the remembered.
Works
2016 – 2021 · Cambridge
About
Explorers Society is a musical cinema project from Cambridge in the UK.
We combine the visual storytelling of cinema with the sensory experience of a music concert. Films play on the screen behind us while the band performs the score live, so story and sound move back and forth between the screen and the room.
Audiences travel through the past and the present, the real and the remembered.
Book Explorers Society“It’s music for stargazers and dreamers. It’s not edgy. It’s unashamedly nice.”
Review · Dan Rawley
That’s an accurate summary. Early into this seven-track album it becomes clear that Explorers Society’s music is intended for relaxing or thinking to – drifting, floating, voiceless songs that belong to another galaxy entirely.
It’s an intentional effect, as piano player David Allatt explains. “I’d like to think this is what it sounds like in space,” he says. “It’s music for stargazers and dreamers. It’s not edgy. It’s unashamedly nice.” Indeed, tracks with names such as ‘Hourglass Eyes’, ‘Royal Sport’ and ‘Birds’ add to this majestic aesthetic.
Explorers Society’s music is so cinematic that it’s hard not to imagine it accompanying the visuals of Hollywood’s next space film.