About this Event
Join us at Books on the Rise as we celebrate the life and legacy of David Bowie with composer Sefi Carmel who worked with the icon and celebrate the release of a beautiful new gift book DAVID BOWIE: The Artist, The Albums, The Music
About David Bowie: The Artist, The Albums, The Music:
This full colour book is an immersion into the exceptional life and work of David Bowie, featuring the various characters he embodied, such as Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack, The Thin White Duke. From London to New York, from Los Angeles to Montreux, album by album, we delve into his musical universe: glam rock, soul/funk, avant-garde rock, industrial rock, culminating in timeless works like The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station To Station, Heroes, Black Star. The best biography on Bowie by far.
About Sefi Carmel:
Sefi Carmel is an award-winning London-based composer, sound designer, producer, and mixer with a storied career spanning over several decades. His journey through the realms of sound and music has seen him create soundtracks for films, TV, commercials, and games, earning him a reputation as one of the most versatile and talented audio professionals in the industry. He begun work with David Bowie on his critically acclaimed 1998 concert in Tel Aviv. His credits range from work on Hollywood feature films with such names as Ridley Scott, John Woo and Chris Columbus; to mixing, remixing and mastering tracks for Bowie, Phil Collins, Bruno Mars, Michael Bublé, Massive Attack, BB King and many others...
Sefi will be interviewed by Mark Dezzani
About Mark Dezzani:
Mark is an experienced written and broadcast journalist. He has been BBC TV News correspondent in Italy and also contributed to BBC Radio current affairs and topical features on Radio 4 and World Service as well as a researcher for the prestigious BBC 1 Panorama programme. He has also been a stringer for NBC News TV (US) and contributed to ABC Radio (Australia), CBC Radio (Canada) and IRN (Independent Radio News UK) and many other broadcasters world-wide.
As a trade journalist he has been Italian correspondent for Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter and Broadcast magazines. He has also contributed to Variety, Century 21 and a myriad other trade magazines and for trade dailies at festivals.
Mark has also contributed articles for The Guardian and The European newspapers.
He is also an experienced radio DJ who started his radio life as a landbased pirate in Sussex and then London where he was a founder member of the community radio lobby group 'Free The Airwaves'. In 1982 he moved to the Italian/French Riviera to work for Radio Nova International, the first English language broadcaster serving the Cote d'Azur. In the late 80s Mark was a founding member of Sunshine Radio Antibes before joining Riviera Radio in Monaco. In 2000 he joined Radio Caroline. "I am thrilled to be on Radio Caroline, a real oasis for quality music radio in the desert of fast rotating small playlists and sloganeering liner cards." Mark has also freelanced on many international radio stations including BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, IRN (Independent Radio News), ABC Radio Australia and CBC Radio Canada. He has also worked for Radio International/Radio Relax (Ventimiglia, Italy); Radio 2000 (Sanremo, Italy), Elecktra 108 and Star 108 as co-owner (Seborga, Italy) and Radio Sound Milano.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
80 Hill Rise, 80 Hill Rise, Richmond, United Kingdom
GBP 9.99 to GBP 22.00
