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Paul Humphreys

Paul Humphreys

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Biography

Paul David Humphreys (born 27 February 1960) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the keyboardist and secondary vocalist of the electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), which he founded alongside lead vocalist and bassist Andy McCluskey in 1978. The Quietus remarked, "If, roughly speaking, McCluskey is the intellect and inquisitive nature in the group, then Humphreys is the heart." The pair have been recognised as pioneers of electronic music. Humphreys played with OMD until 1989, seven years before the band's dissolution, and returned for their 2006 reformation. His songwriting contribution features on all of the group's studio albums, save for 1991's Sugar Tax. Humphreys sang lead vocals on several OMD tracks, including the singles "Electricity", "Souvenir", "Never Turn Away", "Secret", "(Forever) Live and Die" and "What Have We Done". Aside from his work with OMD, Humphreys fronted spin-off band the Listening Pool from 1989 to 1996, and recorded with former Propaganda singer Claudia Brücken as the duo Onetwo from 2000 to 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Humphreys, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Bauhaus Staircase OMD ARTefact

This lavish product comprehensively celebrates the audiovisual world of OMD’s 14th studio album Bauhaus Staircase. Working in close collaboration with cine1080, the music videos for the singles from the record were the band’s most ambitious yet. Refusing on a point of principle to use any AI in their work, these videos are lovingly CGI generated and were the results of many months of labour. In addition to all the music videos of the singles & promotional tracks released from the album, this luxurious book boasts 32 pages of imagery, a full-length conversation between Andy McCluskey and cine1080’s Andy Whitehurst about their creative working relationship, the full Bauhaus Staircase album & b-sides in high-resolution audio, the live visuals used on the Bauhaus Staircase Tour (with brand new live tracks recorded in Edinburgh and London and mixed by Paul Humphreys) plus more.

Bauhaus Staircase OMD ARTefact

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