Thousand Hours
Thousand Hours is a London, UK-based electromantic blue-eyed soul music project featuring Paul Mansford. Mansford is a singer, instrumentalist and songwriter whose performances employ live and looped vocals/EDM, beats/synths, and ambient Nord keyboard stylings.
Influences
Thousand Hours' music has elements in common with artists such as James Blake, Daft Punk, Calvin Harris, SBTRKT, M83, Sam Sparro, Example and Allen Stone.History
Mansford previously performed as frontman and lead vocalist for Total Movement, a London-based electropop project with his twin brother Alan, Joe Dickenson, and Will Calver. Their single "Show Them What You’re Made Of" was signed to German Clubland label Sound of Now, and their EP releases include Halo and Grace.Thousand Hours' executive producer is New York City- and London-based multi-platinum songwriter Wayne Cohen. The two met through a mutual friend with whom Cohen was co-writing. Cohen and Mansford eventually began collaborating, working on songs and recordings via Skype. From there, Thousand Hours – initially a one-man band featuring looped beats, vocals, and synths – was born. Out of Mansford and Cohen's different interpretations of the project came a style of "electromantic" music. NPR contributor Stephanie Coleman deemed the term electromantic as "having no meaning and every meaning. It's a buzz word - people will make their own associations to the word electromantic."