James Griffith(XII)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Sound Department
James Griffith was a member of Lake Trout since the band formed in 1994 in Baltimore. He played the base, guitar and vocals. Lake Trout combined rock, ambient, jazz and many other styles.
The band toured extensively but in 2007 the band put a halt to its ongoing touring schedule. After the last album the band performed a few yearly shows on the east coast and James Griffith, Matthew Pierce and Mike Lowry have also toured extensively as part of Unkle's touring band since 2007 under the name Big In Japan.
Big In Japan was a Lake Trout side project, the music was instrumental, very improvisational, and ambient. In 2008 James Griffith started co-writing and co producing with Unkle, working on a number of Unkle albums. 'More Stories' (January 2008), 'End Titles Stories For Film' (July 2008), 'End Titles Redux' (December 2008) 'Where Did The Night Fall' (May 2010) and 'Where Did The Night Fall Another Night Out (April 2011).
In Unkle James worked on remixes for the likes of Noel Gallagher - AKA What A Life and Noel Gallagher - Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me - Black Mountain - No Hits, Autolux - Turnstile Blues, The Queens Of The Stone Age - I'm Designer, Evil Nine - 13 Icicles ,The Big Pink - Too Young To Love, Grinderman (Nick Cave) - Worm Tamer, Trentemoller - Neverglade. In 2012 James and Pablo Clements along with James Lavelle collected Remixer of the Year (for Unkle) award from the UK Music Producers Guild for the remix of Band of Skulls - The Devil Takes Care Of His Own.
James's work is very versatile, as well as writing music for his own collaborative projects he is able to switch his hand to scoring music for films. James has co-written, co -produced and recorded many tracks for the big screen, including With You In My Head for the Twilight Saga: Eclipse directed by David Slade, Every Single Prayer featuring Gavin Clark for the film The Caller directed by Matthew Parkhill, and the documentary Lives of The Artists for Relentless directed by Ross Cairns for Relentless, a film about extreme sports people (snowboarding, musicians and surfers).
Since 2011 James has teamed up with fellow Unkle band member and writer Pablo Clements, they operate under the Producer/Artist name Toydrum. They have worked on a variety of projects, Lawless with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Red Shoes - A short film For Vivienne Westwood, Pieces a film directed by Jack Weatherly, who they have worked with before on a film called The Score for Euro 2012, remixes for the likes of Trentemoller and Noel Gallagher.
Toydrum released Distant Focus (2014) on their own label Underscore Collective this year a 6 track mini album it is a progression of the work Pablo and James Griffith created under the Unkle name.
They are scoring London Fields (Billy Bob Thornton Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Jim Strugess) and also the next This is England 90's with Shane Meadows.
The band toured extensively but in 2007 the band put a halt to its ongoing touring schedule. After the last album the band performed a few yearly shows on the east coast and James Griffith, Matthew Pierce and Mike Lowry have also toured extensively as part of Unkle's touring band since 2007 under the name Big In Japan.
Big In Japan was a Lake Trout side project, the music was instrumental, very improvisational, and ambient. In 2008 James Griffith started co-writing and co producing with Unkle, working on a number of Unkle albums. 'More Stories' (January 2008), 'End Titles Stories For Film' (July 2008), 'End Titles Redux' (December 2008) 'Where Did The Night Fall' (May 2010) and 'Where Did The Night Fall Another Night Out (April 2011).
In Unkle James worked on remixes for the likes of Noel Gallagher - AKA What A Life and Noel Gallagher - Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me - Black Mountain - No Hits, Autolux - Turnstile Blues, The Queens Of The Stone Age - I'm Designer, Evil Nine - 13 Icicles ,The Big Pink - Too Young To Love, Grinderman (Nick Cave) - Worm Tamer, Trentemoller - Neverglade. In 2012 James and Pablo Clements along with James Lavelle collected Remixer of the Year (for Unkle) award from the UK Music Producers Guild for the remix of Band of Skulls - The Devil Takes Care Of His Own.
James's work is very versatile, as well as writing music for his own collaborative projects he is able to switch his hand to scoring music for films. James has co-written, co -produced and recorded many tracks for the big screen, including With You In My Head for the Twilight Saga: Eclipse directed by David Slade, Every Single Prayer featuring Gavin Clark for the film The Caller directed by Matthew Parkhill, and the documentary Lives of The Artists for Relentless directed by Ross Cairns for Relentless, a film about extreme sports people (snowboarding, musicians and surfers).
Since 2011 James has teamed up with fellow Unkle band member and writer Pablo Clements, they operate under the Producer/Artist name Toydrum. They have worked on a variety of projects, Lawless with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Red Shoes - A short film For Vivienne Westwood, Pieces a film directed by Jack Weatherly, who they have worked with before on a film called The Score for Euro 2012, remixes for the likes of Trentemoller and Noel Gallagher.
Toydrum released Distant Focus (2014) on their own label Underscore Collective this year a 6 track mini album it is a progression of the work Pablo and James Griffith created under the Unkle name.
They are scoring London Fields (Billy Bob Thornton Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Jim Strugess) and also the next This is England 90's with Shane Meadows.
