Jonny Greenwood
English musician and score composer
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Jonny Greenwood's Keyboards and Synthesizers
In this user-uploaded Tumblr photo, Jonny Greenwood is pictured with the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, highlighting its role in his setup.
Used by Jonny in studio. He played it during the March 1998 attempt at recording Big Boots. Some say that Thom or Jonny used the synth quite a lot during the Kid A/Amnesiac sessions, though I don’t know if those sounds are actually from the Rogue. It has also been mistakenly claimed to have been used on 2+2=5, when the synth used on that song is quite probably the Martenot.
Radiohead used a heavily downsized setup for their 2010 Haiti Benefit show, and Jonny decided to use an ARP Solina String Ensemble for all of his synth-string and Mellotron parts. For the Haiti Benefit show, Jonny played the Solina on Street Spirit, Airbag, Lucky, Exit Music (for a film), and Dollars and Cents.
During the performance of Lotus Flower, Jonny Greenwood at times plays the Prophet '08. The camera is on Thom Yorke for the most part, but you can see Jonny Greenwood playing it at 2:25.
Here Jonny can be seen playing a Hammond M-102, with a close up shot shown here.
You can see Jonny using a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 in this image.
Jonny Greenwood used a Hammond XB-2 Organ during a live performance in 1996 for "Karma Police," as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Tumblr.
Jonny can be seen playing a Rhodes Stage Piano Mark I 73 in this live performance.
"The rebirth of the ondes Martenot, 23 years later ! The very first instrument has been delivered by Jean-Loup Dierstein and Thomas Bloch to Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) on the 14th of July 2011" - Thomas Bloch.
Both Jonny and Thom use this Moog Minimoog Voyager Performer Edition synth.
Here Jonny can be seen playing around with a Gakken SX-150.
Behind Jonny during this sound check you can see the Korg Poly-Ensmeble PE-1000.
Jonny began using the Ondes Martenot during the recording of Radiohead's Kid A, and has used it in many of his subsequent projects. His advocacy of the instrument helped revived public interest in it after years of falling into obscurity.
Jonny used the Korg Prophecy in the studio version of "Lift", he also used it in the live concerts, as shown in the source, you can see Jonny playing the Korg Prophecy at minute 2:23.
Jonny's Korg Prophecy was the band's "secret weapon" during the "Ok Computer" sessions between 1995-1998. Besides using the Prophecy on "Lift", it was also used on the studio version of "Airbag" and "Climbing Up The Walls", on these tracks he used it as an attempt to emulate an Ondes Martenot (that's why when he got a real Ondes Martenot he got rid of the Prophecy before the Kid A/Amnesiac sessions). You can also see the Prophecy in action in live performances of the tracks "Talk Show Host", "Planet Telex", and "Paranoid Android" (the latter he only used it once live) between 1996 and 1998.
One small but notable revelation of the MINIDISCS [Hacked] is that the song Melatonin was initially called “Crumar Song”. The studio recording of Melatonin begins with a stripped-back arrangement of just two string synthesizers panned left and right, and these synths form the foundation of the song. The MINIDISCS version (at 7:19 on track/disc 7) is even more stripped back – just Thom and the string synthesizer. It’s a recording that feels much too personal to listen to, giving a glimpse of Thom shakily throwing down the barest sketch of song to review and refine later on. However, the title lets us know that the particular string synthesizer which Thom used for Melatonin is the band’s Crumar Multiman-S (marketed in the United States as the Crumar “Orchestrator”). If the Crumar was purchased while Nigel was building Radiohead’s studio in 1996, then perhaps Melatonin was inspired by this new bit of gear. https://thekingofgear.com/post/185552511800/radioheads-crumar
Jonny can be seen playing a Rhodes Stage Piano Mark I 73 in this live performance.
A photograph clearly shows Jonny Greenwood with the Hohner Clavinet D6, confirming his use of this specific musical instrument.
In a YouTube video of Jonny Greenwood performing "Taq ou Dub," he is seen adjusting the "VCA Decay" control on the Moog DFAM - Drummer From Another Mother. The video also shows a blue patch cable connecting the DFAM's "VCO 1" output to the "Velocity" input, adding "LFO" modulation. Additionally, a yellow patch cable connects the "Sync Out" on the T8 to the "Clock / ADV" input on the Moog, synchronizing the devices. This visual evidence confirms Jonny Greenwood's use of the Moog DFAM in his setup.
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Discography
Bodysong. (Remastered)
2003
There Will Be Blood (Music from the Motion Picture)
2007
Norwegian Wood OST
2011
Penderecki & Greenwood: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia
2012
The Master: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2012
Junun
2015
Phantom Thread (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2018
You Were Never Really Here (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2018
Spencer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2021
The Power Of The Dog (Soundtrack From The Netflix Film)
2021
Jarak Qaribak
2023
One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2025
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