Oktobermusic are Danny Prendergast and Jerry Playle.

As Oktober, Danny and Jerry have been writing and performing in concert their diverse compositions, and plan to perform more live shows upon the release of their next album in 2010. The Oktober track 'Transitions' is featured in the film Prinzessinnenbad which won 3 awards (including German Academy Award for Best Film in class). The film has been shown globally and the DVD and Soundtrack are now available. Oktober are also proud to appear alongside Jill Scott on the soundtrack album.

Danny Prendergast Danny studied jazz guitar with the great Ike Isaacs. He toured with Charles Aznavour on his world tour in 1977, working with Terry Cox and Paul Westwood, and later studied with John Cadman to achieve a Licenciate in Classical Guitar with Trinity College London. He has worked with many theatre groups performing Joseph And The Technicolour Dreamcoat, Tommy, A Slice Of Saturday Night, Little Shop of Horrors, The Full Monty and Return To The Forbidden Planet.

Accompanying Isla St.Clair in concert across the UK for several years, he additionally recorded many albums with her, including 'Murder And Mayhem', 'Royal Lovers & Scandals', and 'Looking Forward to the Past' working with TV producer Patrick King and record producer Ian Lynn.

Danny's diverse work also has seen him perform with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, UK band Matchbox (as part of the original line-up), and co-write songs with highly successful song writer Ken Leray. Extraordinary actor and singer Cy Grant also turned to Danny to score an arrangement of 'Send In The Clowns', for live performance.

Jerry Playle Aged 18, Jerry wrote and recorded a 5 song demo for broadcast on BBC Radio Kent. Playing guitars, bass and keyboards, it was his first effort at arranging and producing. He returned to the studio working sessions for the Italian owner.

 

Located in Dulwich, London, the studio had a fine local reputation for reggae, funk and soul, and Jerry often found himself to be the only white musician on the sessions, a situation repeated later when touring with chart topping US 70's and 80's funk, r'n'b and soul artists Odyssey, Heatwave, Rose Royce, George McCrae and UK's The Real Thing. Closer to home, touring 'The Songs Of Nick Drake' with Keith James' band required sensitive guitar arrangements of 'River Man' and ''Cello Song', here using an Ebow for the song's signature 'cello arrangement. While working as session guitarist at Keith's studio, Jerry often worked alongside acclaimed singer Sarah Randle, whom he later wrote and produced for.

With Jerry's interest in jazz ignited by Jeff Beck's 'Blow By Blow' album, doors were opened wider to the works of Weather Report and Miles Davis among many more, and the deep desire to express those influences led to releasing the solo album 'Beyond Silence' with U.K. Jazz record label '33' Records. A second album 'Bitter Sweet' released through Northstar Music featured Jerry and Danny's work together with the Oktober track 'Journey Home'.

Together Danny and Jerry have written, played and performed for some 15 years, and their music is widely used commercially on TV, radio and film.

As composers our desire is to focus on what the music can communicate; where harmony and colour are emotional connections, and where the guitars are there to carry the sound that intuitively encapsulates that ethos.