DENHAM SCREEN SOUND PRESENTS:

'BEAUTIFUL BRUTALISM: A SOUNDTRACK'

-METALABEL LIMITED EDITION-

50 copies only

Photographs by Jo Underhill (X/twitter: @JoStructuraleye) Music by Carl Woodcroft (X/twitter: @DnmScreenSound)

This is the companion soundtrack to the sold out 'Beautiful Brutalism' book by photographer Jo Underhill.

Vibrant synths merge with orchestral colours in these ambient and visceral soundscapes, with each track accompanying photographs of iconic brutalist buildings from across the UK.

This soundtrack includes an extensive 45 page digital booklet of high resolution photographs, accompanied by 1 hour of original music.

METALABEL EDITION: This special edition for Metalabel includes 3 never before released tracks:

• DOWGATE FIRE STATION, LONDON

• RAGLAN ESTATE (SCULPTURED WALL), LONDON

• BAYNARD HOUSE (SEVEN AGES OF MAN SCULPTURE), LONDON

Explore Britain's iconic brutalist architecture by immersing yourself in sound and vision.

ABOUT:

JO UNDERHILL - Photographer

Jo Underhill is a freelance photographer based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and works all over the UK. Her background is in architectural photography but since 2019 she has been working with art galleries, curators and artists to photograph their exhibitions and public art installations. She enjoys exploring and documenting art installations and exhibitions. Her photography focuses on the art and its relationship with the space it is exhibited, the dialogue between the curated artwork and how people interact and view the art.

She has worked with a number of clients including Kettle's Yard, Serpentine Gallery, The Heong Gallery, The Women's Art Collection, Hayward Gallery, If_Do Architects and Jamie Fobert Architects. Jo has had her images featured in a number of publications, books and exhibition catalogues including Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt exhibition catalogue (Kettle’s Yard), Gavin Turk: In Search of Ariadne exhibition catalogue (Heong Gallery) and Barbara Chase Riboud Infinite Folds book (Serpentine Gallery).

Jo has a passion for concrete and brutalist architecture which has led her over the last 12 years to work on an ongoing personal project photographing brutalist buildings across the UK. In 2021 Jo self-published her project Ode to Welbeck as a limited edition photography book designed by Stanley James Press. It brought together photographs she had taken from regular visits to the iconic Welbeck Street Car Park in London to document the car park's last few years before its demolition. In 2022 Jo self-published Beautiful Brutalism, her sold out second limited edition photography book, again designed by Stanley James Press, which looked back at some of the buildings she had photographed in the first ten years of the project.

CARL WOODCROFT - Composer

Carl Woodcroft works from his home studio at the renowned former Denham Film Studios which closed in 1980. Carl set up Denham Screen Sound in 2023, an independent soundtrack creation house through which his compositions will provide the creative industries with music made in Denham once again.

He studied music for the moving image and composition as part of his music degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has also completed a composing for film & television short course at the National Film and Television School (NFTS). Carl is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he trained as a tuba player. He has performed with orchestras including the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the London Symphony Orchestra at venues ranging from Glastonbury Festival to Sydney Opera House, working under conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nezet-Seguin and Sir Antonio Pappano.

Carl has played on recordings for A24 feature films Beau is Afraid, The Zone of Interest and also for the TV series Interview with the Vampire for Sony Music/AMC. He has also been filmed for scenes in The Crown Season 5 (Elstree), Military Wives (Pinewood), The Ipcress File series (ITV on Location) and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (LH2/Leavesden Studios). Carl has recorded for television programmes including the BBC FOUR documentary Tones, Drones and Arpeggios and has recored at Air, Rak, Metropolis and Abbey Road Studios for projects including Bastille reorchestrated for Amazon Originals.

credits:

Photographs © Jo Underhill All music composed and produced by Carl Woodcroft ℗ & © Denham Screen Sound 2025