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BIOGRAPHY: LANCE HOGAN
Lance Hogan is a music producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with some of the industry’s top names. These include U2, Kila, Sinead O’Connor, Dead Can Dance, Neil Jordan, Republic of Loose, Jimmy Murakami, Baaba Maal, Kevin Godley (10cc / Godley & Creme), Horslips, Oki, The Blizzards, Zakir Hussain, Liam O’Maonlai, The Dubliners.
He started his career as a drummer and went on to work as a Sound Engineer in various studios in Ireland. He also studied film in Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technologies in Dublin.
Lance’s latest work includes working as music producer on Oscar-winning director Neil Jordan’s feature film ‘Ondine’ which had its world premiere at the
Toronto Film Festival in September 2009, Producing a song for the Irish feature film ‘A Kiss For Jed Wood’ and he is about to start working on a Finnish/Irish
feature ‘Lapland Odyssey’ as producer/composer of the soundtrack.
He composed and produced the soundtrack for ‘Sandpiper’ an animated short film directed by Academy Award nominee Jimmy Murakami (The Snowman). Along with Kíla he also collaborated with three-time César Award winning composer Bruno Coulais (Microcosmos) on the animation feature ‘The Secret of Kells’ which was released internationally in 2009.
Lance joined the Irish world music band ‘Kíla’ as co-composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. To date, he has produced five gold albums and one platinum album for the band. He has also toured all over the world promoting those albums.
Lance has produced an album for Dublin rock band ‘Slowhand Row’, co-produced Justin Manville’s album ‘Mother’s Ghost’ and also produced the critically acclaimed album ‘Aliquot Strings’ by Irish classical guitar duo ‘Tucan’. He was music producer on two episodes of ‘The Raw Sessions’ which was broadcast on RTE 2 television in 2009. His stint here included producing charity single, ‘Trouble With A Capital T’, for the Irish Youth Foundation and ‘From The Sun’ by Majella Murphy.
Other music production work has included ‘Monkey’, a stage show produced by the West End Theatre ‘The Young Vic’ and music for the opening ceremony of The Special Olympics in Dublin in 2003.
Lance is one of the directors of Jade Productions, whose debut feature was a concert film called Kila ‘Once Upon A Time…’ which he directed. It had its world premiere at the 20th Galway International Film Fleadh in July 2008 and went to number two in the Irish DVD charts where it stayed in the top 10 for 10 weeks.
The world renowned band ‘Dead Can Dance’ (Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry) invited Lance onboard as a multi-instrumentalist specialising in percussion, guitar, bass and vocals for the ‘Into The Labyrinth’ world tour, the subsequent live album ‘Toward The Within’ and the album and world tour of ‘Spirit Chaser’. Lance was also invited back on their reunion world tour in 2005.
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