Who is who

Elena Charbila has an established track record as a composer, producer and recording artist under her moniker “Kid Moxie.”

Kid Moxie’s cinematic pop music has been featured in multiple TV commercials including a national Victoria’s Secret ad campaign, several TV shows and numerous indie films.

produced by electro artist Faderhead during a quick two-day session the two had last summer in Hamburg. The video is a
glossy nod to Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love” with a queer twist.

“When Faderhead and I started writing the song I was definitely channeling some Depeche Mode vibes, and I even made a joke that Dave Gahan should be singing this. The line ‘I’m taking a ride with my best friend’ kept circling around my head, and then I decided that this song is indeed about a

drive these two girls are taking, only a bit more sinister ’cause it ends up with them having sex in the back seat of the car.”

–Kid Moxie

"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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'Deeper Sleeper' - the new single from Jules Maxwell (Dead Can Dance)