After Extra Time (album)

After Extra Time

art by Dave McKean
photo by The Douglas Brothers

Released

May 20, 1996

Recorded

1996, Jet Recording Studio, Brussels (After Extra Time)
1991, Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin (The Final Score)
1992, JVC Victor Studios, Tokyo (Memorial)

Genre

Contemporary classical music, Minimalist music, Film music

Length

64:05

Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman
Martin Elliott
David Roach

Michael Nyman chronology

The Diary of Anne Frank
(1995)

After Extra Time (album)

The Ogre
(1996)

After Extra Time is a 1996 album by Michael Nyman with the Michael Nyman Band containing three tributes to Nyman's fandom of Association football: After Extra Time, the soundtrack to The Final Score, and Memorial. The latter is described as a remix, but is simply the 1992 recording from The Essential Michael Nyman Band. It was included in order to put it together with his two other football-inspired works (he has since written another: see Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit). The album lists only three tracks, which has caused it to be erroneously reported that Memorial is track 3 and the others are all hidden tracks, but Memorial is track 26. Therefore, a track listing, as the individual portions of the pieces are not named, is not useful. The three pieces were recorded at separate times and thus have separate personnel lists.

Tracks 1-16 29:29
The title of the album is inspired by the way Nyman's wife's rare first name, Aet, often appears in football scores, signifying "after extra time". The piece was written in two layers, one in 1995, and one in 1996, which could be said to represent two teams. The piece is also the basis for another work, "HRT [High Rise Terminal]", which was included by Relâche on their album, Pick It Up in 1997.

Michael Nyman at the piano and Martin Elliott on bass guitar play for both teams, while the violins sometimes carry contradictory harmonies.

Published by Northlight Ltd. c/o Associated Music Publishers / (BMI)

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