David Randall is a guitarist, producer and composer. He has contributed to
multi-million selling albums by Grammy Award winning artist Dido and has
toured the world a number of times performing with UK dance act Faithless.
His own critically acclaimed albums released under the name Slovo feature
international collaborations with artists including Iceland's Emiliana
Torrini, West Africa's Maezah and US jazz legend Max Roach.
Dave was invited to appear alongside Baaba Maal, Michael Stipe, the
Mahotella Queens, Neneh Cherry and others, in the studio and on stage, as
part of the 1 Giant Leap project. Recently he has teamed up with Big Dada
artist Mike Ladd, clarinet player Carol Robinson and drummer Dirk Rothbrust
to create the Paris based improvising quartet 'Sleeping In Vilna' and has
formed a new London based band 'Cosmonaut Volkov' featuring Iraqi oud player
Khyam Allami.
Dave brings this wealth of knowledge of international music to his
compositions for film and television. He has recently contributed music to
the feature film 'Madison' (set in Iraq and the US) the feature length
documentary 'Rebuilding Hope' (set in the US and Sudan) and to the
documentary 'Here We Grow' (about food production and consumption in the
USA). He has also contributed music to numerous BBC and independent
television programmes and has been appointed music director of the Gogolingo
educational initiative (set up by Afsoun Yazdian formerly of Sesame Street).
Politics and internationalism are themes that run through much of Randall's
work. As well as making music he has published articles on the role of music
in political campaigns and on Palestinian Hip-Hop. He lives in Brixton,
South London.