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Seventh Heaven is a brand new double album of orchestral and acoustic portraits from Ant and composer & arranger Andrew Skeet.

In 2008 Ant was commissioned by UPPM to write a set of film-orientated pieces for full orchestra and was subsequently introduced to composer and arranger Andrew Skeet, who created some outstanding arrangements for the pieces.  The orchestral tracks were recorded by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in their home city in December 2008, with additional tracks being recorded at Rak Studios in London and at Ant's own studio.

Having enjoyed their work together, Ant and Andrew teamed up again to work on some more material the following year.  For this second phase they co-wrote some new pieces and also worked on adding string arrangements to some of Ant's compositions which had first been heard in acoustic form on his solo album Field Day.  The pieces were recorded at Angel Studios in London in October 2009, with Andrew conducting a string orchestra of leading session players.

A further recording session with a full 70 piece orchestra at the world famous Abbey Road studios in London took place in November 2011 where some of the pieces first recorded during the sessions in Prague were re-recorded.  Seventh Heaven draws on material from all three phases of recording to create an outstanding collection.

Featured soloists on the album include singers Lucy Crowe and Belinda Sykes, guitarist John Parricelli, cellist Chris Worsey, percussionist Paul Clarvis and sax & woodwind player Martin Robertson, who has contributed to a number of Ant's previous album releases.

Andrew Skeet (Co-writer and arranger on Seventh Heaven)

After studying composition and piano at The Royal College of Music, Andrew worked as an arranger and orchestrator for acts including George Michael, Suede, Unkle, Sinead O'Connor & Hybrid as well as establishing his own orchestra. In 2004 Andrew also began working regularly with Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy as musical director and arranger. In this capacity and playing piano Andrew has toured all over Europe and recorded 3 albums.  More recently he has worked with Neil on a production of Swallows & Amazons and they are currently developing Sebastopol, an opera for Covent Garden.

With former Howie B collaborator Luke Gordon, Skeet established the music production company Roxbury Music and their music has been used extensively on British television. Programmes which have featured music by Roxbury include The Apprentice, Dispatches, Banged Up Abroad, Britain's Lost World, Kali, a collaboration with Mike Figgis for the London Film Festival and Locked Up Abroad.

Andrew has orchestrated and conducted scores for many TV & film productions including Desperate Romantics, Upstairs Downstairs and The Awakening. In 2011 he produced an album with the London Philharmonic Orchestra of video game music which has been among the most successful classical releases of recent years and wrote the score for How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire which premiered in the London Film Festival.  Andrew has also released library albums on Universal’s Atmosphere and Chappell labels which have been used on television and film all over the world.