juderawlins

juderawlins

I am a musician, writer and film maker living in the East End. My work is global. I have released over a dozen albums since the late 1980s, the majority with my band Subterraneans which I formed in London in 1992. I released a solo album, The Haunting, in July 2010 and am currently working on the follow-up, as well as several new Subterraneans projects. All of my music is available worldwide on CD as well as the download option. I have created several movie soundtracks, most notably the offical 70th anniversary soundtrack for the classic German film Pandora's Box, and all of Maya Deren's short experimental films. I won the Queen's Award for my 2004 soundtrack to Deren's "At Land".

I have published several books, most recently a collection of poetry called Charing Cross Road, which among other things mourned the vandalism of our city in the name of mediocrity and modernity. I am a fierce supporter of all things London. This city is my home and one of my great muses.

I wrote, shot and directed the feature length film Albion Rising, starring Dudley Sutton as William Blake, Juliet Landau as Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Eileen Daly as Charlotte Mew. I shot the film entirely in Berlin and the borough of Tower Hamlets and the City of London. It was projected on to a surviving section of the Berlin Wall on the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the wall. I am currently developing a couple of new film projects, one of which is based largely in Bow.

I am a co-founder of the William Blake Society and it's current chairman.

I am also a music producer, and have worked with many known and unknown artists. I founded the independant record label The Electric Label in 1993, which specialises in releasing dozens of new projects by marginal London artists. Our unique on-demand business model means that the label functions as a non-profit organisation, but also cannot lose money, liberating us from the usual financial restraints of the established music industry.