Gordon Hulbert is a musician whose career spans a broad range of musical styles and activities.
Originally trained at the Royal College of Music, his credits cover many contemporary styles. As a musical director and side-man he has toured and played with funk and soul artists Chaka Khan, The Temptations, Alexander O’Neal, Heatwave, Imagination and Odyssey; world artists Salif Keita, Hugh Masekela, Lui Sola and Unnati Dasgupta; pop and dance artists Imogen Heap, Psapp, Anastacia, Gabrielle, Suzie Quatro, Tony Hadley, Alison Limerick, Angie Brown, Anita Kelsey and Kenny Thomas.
Hastings based, Gordon still runs a recording studio in the heart of Notting Hill, London, where dance acts such as
Stonebridge, Fedde Le Grande and Tiesto have come for his production skills and alongside Bill Laswell, Gordon co-produced the original soundtrack to Moving The Mountain – a BBC documentary by Michael Apted and Trudy Styler about the Tien An Mien Square massacre, composed by the celebrated Chinese composer and novelist Liu Sola.
Gigs using Gordon’s classical chops have included touring with Russell Watson (featuring a full symphony orchestra and 80-piece choir), Willy Russell, orchestrating and thematically developing music Willy had written for his feature film ‘Dancing Thru’ The Dark’ and other legends such as Burt Bacharach, Sandie Shaw, Mort Shuman (Brill building composer and writer of 25 songs for Elvis, ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’ and ‘Teenager In Love’ amongst many others).
Gordon is currently working on two jazz projects with Alison Limerick, one project is more acoustic – Algorisms and the other is more electronic, Eat Logic (they first played Hastings in 2015) with plans to take the new material out live when it’s released.
