The Shoe Factory Oliver Patrice Weder

• 1Weder: Breathe In03:32
• 2Weder: Home At Last02:13
• 3Weder: I'd Like the Birds to Teach Me How to Fly05:06
• 4Weder: The Factory Song05:58
• 5Weder: RS02:20
• 6Weder: Golden Light01:49
• 7Weder: Modern Times04:54
• 8Weder: Into Pieces02:59
• 9Weder: Breathe Out03:35
• 10Weder: True Heroes03:43
• Total Runtime36:09

Info for The Shoe Factory

The Shoe Factory is the ambitious and lush new instrumental album by composer, producer and sound designer Oliver Patrice Weder. As he moved to his new home, he landed in a former shoe factory in a small village in the middle of the Tramuntana mountains of Mallorca. As his research about the village and history of the shoe factory went on, he found that there were over 60 shoe factories placed within and around his village. He decided to go and visit some of these still intact factories, equipped with microphones to capture the sound of these machines and the overall factory ambience. The employees were so passionate about their work and their role within the overall process of creating a shoe, and some of them had been at the exact same machine for 40 years. In getting to know these folks, he discovered that the sound of these machines was an integral part of their childhood and upbringing. In the summer months it gets so hot that the doors are kept open and the sound of the factories spills into the streets of the villages, for all locals to hear. With this, the sounds of the factory all of the sudden became a really meaningful thing and they became the sonic inspiration for the entire album. He combined these sounds with a brass trio, a saxophone and his usual piano and electronics - all recorded at his own shoe factory - to form the sound palette of the album.

Oliver Patrice Weder, piano, Wurlitzer, synthesizer, electronics
Florencio Cruz, alto saxophone
Rodrigo Martinez Peña, French horn
Tomeu Garcias, trombone
Juan Espiga, percussion

Oliver Patrice Weder
unique musicality has been heavily inspired and shaped by living and travelling through different places and cultures including Brazil, Africa and the USA, as well as his experiences making a home in various European countries.

Oliver discovered his love of keyboards after hearing the sound of Ray Manzarek (The Doors), and spent his formative years playing classical and jazz piano in the rainy foothills of the Alps. After recording and touring across Europe with various bands including psychedelic rock band Time for T, he studied at Valencia’s Berklee College of Music where he established his passion for film music. As well as composing for the BBC, Oliver is lead composer at Spitfire Audio in London. In 2017, Oliver co-scored the feature film ‘The Haunted’ and made a vlog style series Inside the Score with Spitfire Audio, documenting the entire process — from meeting the director, to seeing the film shown at various international film festivals.

Oliver’s deeply personal debut LP, ‘OPW’, took shape across Europe, between Switzerland, UK, Spain and Holland, where he lived and spent time writing and recording this intimate and powerful musical journey. It fuses a rich and unique blend of acoustic instruments and rhythms with electronic elements — from piano, Wurlitzer, experimental strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra, flugelhorn and drum machines through to spoon solos, occasional gritty synths and percussion found in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — adding flavour and colour throughout.

This album contains no booklet.