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Marius de Vries (born Marius Van Wyk de Vries)
is an English music producer and composer. He was born in
London in 1961. He has been
behind some of the key albums and soundtracks of recent times,
gathering five Grammy nominations, two BAFTAs, and an Ivor Novello award
along the way.
Music
Producer
De Vries began his music career playing keyboards for the
English eighties pop-soul band The Blow Monkeys (with whom he has an
ongoing creative relationship to this day), then spending the late
eighties as one of the UK's most in-demand session
keyboard-players/programmers and up-and-coming producers, working
with artists such as Annie Lennox, The Sugarcubes, David Bowie, D Mob, Coldcut, Cathy Dennis, The Soup Dragons, Junior Reid, Brian Eno, U2, and Lisa Stansfield.
His work with The Sugarcubes led to a key role on Björk's "Debut", which marked the beginning
of a long collaborative relationship with producer Nellee Hooper; the
team were responsible for landmark recordings with Massive Attack,
Björk, Madonna, The Sneaker Pimps, Tina Turner, and U2, and ultimately the soundtrack and score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet, for which de Vries - along
with Hooper and co-composer Craig Armstrong - received
the first of his two BAFTAs.
Since then de Vries has made records with, amongst others, Robbie
Robertson, Neil
Finn, Anja
Garbarek, PJ Harvey,
Melanie
C, David Gray, Madonna, Perry Farrell, Skin, Darren Hayes, The Sugababes, Bebel Gilberto,
Sophie
Solomon, The
Leaves, Elbow and recently
Pet Shop
Boys
His best known work includes writing and production
contributions to Björk's extended body of work, a professional
relationship that has continued throughout the Icelandic singers
career.
De Vries produced both of Rufus Wainwright's Want
albums (Want One
and Want Two),
and appeared in the documentary, All I Want,
discussing Wainwright's life. He is documented as saying that
Wainwright's song, "I Don't Know What it Is", was
one of the most complex production challenges he has ever faced,
with its hundreds of layers of separate orchestral, choral, and
vocal parts.
Most recently, de Vries has produced and written with Josh Groban on his
multi-platinum 2007 release, Awake, mixed Rufus
Wainwright's 2007 LP, Release the Stars, and produced
the 2008 album, A Piece of What You Need
by English singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson.
Thompson approached de Vries early on with the desire of them
working together while de Vries was working on the Want
albums with Rufus Wainwright, who is a friend of Thompson.
Composer/Film Scores
De Vries was the Music Director for the 2001 film, Moulin Rouge!,
and worked with Nellee Hooper on the film soundtrack for Romeo +
Juliet, as co-composer, programmer, and co-producer. Both
of these projects won de Vries BAFTA
awards, and he was awarded an Ivor Novello Award for his
compositional work on the former.
He also wrote the scores for Stephan Elliott's surreal thriller,
Eye of the Beholder as
well as Elliott's adaptation of the Noel Coward comedy, "Easy Virtue. "Easy Virtue" is notable
musically for using the real singing voices of leading actors Ben
Barnes, Jessica
Biel and Colin
Firth [1] to
great acclaim.[2]
Composer/Other material
In 2008 de Vries created an hour-long modern dance work with
choreographer Rafael Bonachela entitled "SquareMap of Q4" which
premiered at the South Bank in London in February.
Personal
On a side note, de Vries is related to South African music
producer Piet van Wyk de Vries, who works
almost exclusively in the South African Afrikaans speaking market.
Marius has two children.
List of songs
produced by Marius de Vries
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"11:11" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"14th Street" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Aganjù" by Bebel
Gilberto
"Agnus Dei" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Ain't No Love" by David Gray
"Alibi" by David Gray
"All Around" by Bebel Gilberto
"All
Over The World" by Pet Shop Boys
"Alright" by The Lucy Nation
"Answer Back" by The 25th of May
"A Piece of What You Need" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Baby" by Bebel Gilberto
"Baby Girl" by The
Times
"Bad Twin" by Babybird
"Balloon Mood" by Anja Garbarek
"Beautiful Boy" by Kelli
Ali
"Beautiful Child" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Believe Again" by Delta Goodrem
"Beyond My Control" by Anja Garbarek
"Can't Sing Straight" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Coming Up For Air" by Siobhan
Donaghy
"Closer" by Melanie C
"Crumb By Crumb" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Dinner at Eight" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Disappearing World" by David Gray
"Divine Thing" by The Soup Dragons
"Don't Know What I Was Thinking" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Es Mus Sein" by Rufus Wainwright
"Every Day You've Been Away" by Bebel Gilberto
"Everybody Cries" by Liberty
X
"F.T.R.T.V." by The 25th of May
"Forget Myself" by Elbow
"From Here You Can Almost See the Sea" by David Gray
"Gay Messiah" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Go or Go Ahead" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Goin' Down" by Melanie C
"Great Train Robbery" by Junior Reid
"Harvester of Hearts" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Heaven" by Neil Arthur
"Here Comes the Summer" by Kelli Ali
"Here it Comes Again" by Melanie C
"Hospital Food" by David Gray
"I Don't Know What it Is" by
Rufus Wainwright[3]
"I Love I Hate" by Neil Arthur
"I.C.U." by Anja Garbarek
"If You Wear That Velvet Dress" by U2
"It
Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas" by Pet Shop Boys
"In My Arms" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"It's All Right" by The 25th of May
"Jabuticaba" by Bebel Gilberto
"Jonathan's Book" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Just One of Those Days" by Anja Garbarek
"Lately" by David Gray
"Leaders of the Free World" by Elbow
"Little Sister" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Little Star" by Madonna
"Mama" by Annie
Lennox
"Meditation on Dvorak's Slavonic Fantasy" by Sophie
Solomon
"Memphis Skyline" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Mother Universe" by The Soup Dragons
"Movies of Myself" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
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"My Very Best" by Elbow
"Natasha" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Next to You" by Bebel Gilberto
"Northern Star" by Melanie C
"Nos Da Cariad" by David Gray
"Nothing Really Matters" by Madonna
"Now and Always" by David Gray
"O Caminho" by Bebel Gilberto
"Oh What a World" by Rufus
Wainwright[3]
"Old Whore's Diet" by Rufus Wainwright (co-produced by
Wainwright)[4]
"One of These Days" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Pagan Poetry" by Björk
"Peach Trees" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Physical" by Kylie
Minogue
"Picking Up Pieces" by Anja Garbarek
"Pretty Things" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Ring-A-Ding-Ding" by Appleton
"River Song" by Bebel Gilberto
"Sail Away" by David Gray
"She Collects (Stuff Like That)" by Anja Garbarek
"Shelter" by The 25th of May
"Simplesmente" by Bebel Gilberto
"Skin" by Madonna
"Slippery Slope (Easier)" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Slow Motion" by David Gray
"So You Say" by Siobhan Donaghy
"Solve My Problems Today" by Ashtar Command
"Something Written" by Anja Garbarek
"Storm" by Grace
Jones and the Radio Science Orchestra
"Strange Noises" by Anja Garbarek
"Summer's End" by Ashtar Command
"Sunlight in the Rain" by Kelli Ali
"Sweetmeat" by The Soup Dragons
"The Art Teacher" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"The Cabinet" by Anja Garbarek
"The Day Before" by Appleton
"The Infinite Stars" by Kelli Ali
"The One I Love" by David Gray
"The One You
Love" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"The Sky Lit Up" by PJ
Harvey
"The Telescope Man Says" by Anja Garbarek
"The Things I Do" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"The Wind" by PJ Harvey
"This Love" by Craig Armstrong
"This Love Affair" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Treat Me Good" by Yazz
"Turning The Gun On Myself" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Velvet Curtain Rag" by Rufus Wainwright
"Vibrate" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Vicious World" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"Waiting For a Dream" by Rufus Wainwright[4]
"Want" by Rufus Wainwright[3]
"What's Goin' On" by The 25th of May
"What's This?!!" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Where to Go From Here" by Teddy Thompson[5]
"Why" by Melanie C
"Winter" by Bebel Gilberto
"Yellow Moon" by Roisin Murphy
"Your Disco Needs You" by Kylie Minogue
"February Song" by Josh
Groban
"Solo Por Ti" by Josh Groban
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