Crayola Lectern

Crayola Lectern’s critically lauded albums, The Fall and Rise of… (2013, Bleeding Heart Recordings) and Happy Endings (2018, Onomatopoeia Records) have been compared by the critics to Lalo Schifrin, Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach, Neal Hefti amongst a plethora of other notable film score composers.

The music is often emotive and textural with sophisticated arrangements, centred around the piano with a palette covering melancholia, with a pastoral/psychedelic flavour, through to exciting and tempestuous “adventure music,” which sets the imagination alight. Chris Anderson, the man behind the mask, also works with several notable music makers as a multi-instrumentalist and collaborator and his interests beyond Crayola extend to composing music to film.

Two Crayola Lectern songs Slow Down and I Will Never Hurt was recently recorded as part of the highly acclaimed Helicopter of the Holy Ghost album Afters (K-Scope Records).