"Sublime ... a work of reflective, sophisticated elegance"
Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance)
Roger O'Donnell (The Cure)
"I love this collection of songs and the way they gently describe places and times we may have visited and forgotten"
James Chapman (MAPS)
"Cycles is a stunning album. This is music for the soul"
Charlotte Vincent (Vincent Dance Theatre)
"This is a haunting, absorbing and atmospheric collections of works"
Foy Vance
"This is fucking beautiful, every bit as alluring as I have come to expect from Jules Maxwell"
deeper sleeper
Jules Maxwell’’s first single from the forthcoming Cycles album is an intriguingly hypnotic piece of work. A simple piano motif builds and expands and intensifies like some dark movie soundtrack. It is an exquisite and affecting piece of music, accompanied by an equally compelling video featuring a snail filmed in his garden. The secret of Maxwell’s music is that its simplicity allows the listener space to contemplate deeper, and in so doing discover a world of detail and complexity.
“Working with Dead Can Dance for the past decade has taught me a lot about composition” explains Maxwell. “Brendan and Lisa’s music is dense and poetic, but actually at it’s core it is constructed from beautifully simple strands. Like life. In my opinion that is why people can identify with it. Simplicity for me as a composer is the Holy Grail. I have spent my whole career trying to simplify and distill ideas to their essence, and allow my music to breathe”
For fans of Radiohead, Max Richter and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Jules Maxwell will be opening for Dead Can Dance on their European shows in 2022.
Jules Maxwell is a multi-instrumentalist composer and songwriter. He plays keyboards for Australian band Dead Can Dance and in May 2021 released a critically acclaimed album with Lisa Gerrard, entitled Burn.
In 2021 he also released Nocturnes on Archangelo Recordings - a beautifully melancholic collection of instrumental pieces, much of it written in collaboration with the acclaimed UK dance company Vincent Dance Theatre.
He composed 4 songs for Le Mystére des Voix Bulgares 2018 album Boocheemish and the song First of July which appeared on Foy Vance’s debut album Hope. Jules has also collaborated with Duke Special on numerous recordings, shows and projects including the 2009 National Theatre production of Mother Courage directed by Deborah Warner.
He has worked often with acclaimed theatre artist Mark Storor on projects at London's Roundhouse as well as in ice cream vans, warehouses and schools.
His work at Shakespeare’s Globe, includes the 2016 production of The Merchant of Venice starring Jonathan Pryce and the 2017 production of Boudica starring Gina McKee.
He has created modern dance soundtracks for Wayne McGregor, Cathy Marston, Vincent Dance Theatre, Bern Ballet, Skanes Dansteater Malmö, Jasmin Vardimon and Candoco Dance Company and in 2019 his debut full length opera The Lost Thing was presented by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
He has released 5 albums of his own eclectic material over the years and in 2022 will be releasing a second volume of piano instrumentals entitled Cycles on the Ghost Palace label.
Jules Maxwell is originally from Ireland but currently lives in London with his wife and young son.
All music composed, arranged, performed and produced by Jules Maxwell
Cycles album publishing : Copyright Control
Nocturnes album published by Schubert Music Publishing Ltd
Recorded at The Cross, London
Mastered by Michał Kupicz
Executive producer: Daryl Bamonte for Archangelo Music
Cover photographs by Jules Maxwell
Artwork design by Giovanni Rodriguez and Jules Maxwell
Jules Maxwell
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