Is this your first time on the Isle of Wight? It is performing wise, but I came to Bestival about a decade ago – it was fabulous and I loved it – and I came to the Island in my late teens and had my first lobster here!
The first time I heard your music was (first album) Call Off The Search, which thrust you into the spotlight, how did you cope with that as such a young age? I wanted to focus on the music and develop as an artist and musician, but what I ve found since the emergence of social media is everyone has to deal with some level of fame nowadays to some extent.
Vale
Brian Coney
, May 17th, 2021 08:26
Jóhann Jóhannsson collaborator Simon Goff scores big with a meditation on place and placelessness, finds Brian Coney
Exploring the doomy communitas of lockdown via song is one thing. Feature-length takes on the purgatorial plight of post-Brexit Britain is quite another. It’s a conceptual minefield that few artists could navigate without resorting to the dreaded over-reach. For English violinist and composer Simon Goff, any such doubt is cast out from the get-go on his debut solo album,
Vale.
Since trading North Yorkshire for Berlin a few months shy of the 2016 EU referendum, Goff’s métier as a serial collaborator has grown by the year. Having been swiftly adopted by the city’s illustrious post-classical music community, he has worked alongside the likes of the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O Halloran, and Hildur Guðnadóttir on the soundtracks for
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