Article by Ey@el and music by Jonny Greenwood

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Jonny Greenwood is that guy with a head full of hair covering his eyes — could have been a walking ad for that brand of shampoo — who enjoys torturing his guitar as he makes crêpes (or wafles) with Radiohead. In addition to being a multi-instrumentist (he plays guitar, synths, piano, xylophone, harmonica, ondes Martenot, Glockenspiel,  etc.) in a great rock band turned experimental band, he also finds time to compose classical works for the BBC's symphonic orchestra in his spare time.

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Greenwood (Jonathan, not his brother Colin who is also a member of Radiohead) originally wrote the above piece for the BBC Concert Orchestra which was later extrapolated into a score for Norwegian Wood^†, a Japanese drama film, released in 2010 that was directed by Tran Anh Hung and based on Haruki Murakami's novel of the same name with a plot set in 1960s Tokyo.

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“I wrote this piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead,” he explains.  “This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting around indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I can't think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written.”

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