Birling Gap Audio Project

You are listening to a live recording of micro-opera THE HARDEST JOURNEY taken from the premiere in St Pancras Station, London on International Womens' Day 08.03.22.

Composer ANNA BRAITHWAITE 
Librettist KERRY PRIEST
Musical Director ELLIE SLORACH
Soprano SIÂN DICKER 
Tenor SAM MARSTON 
Baritone CHUMA SIJEQA 
Bass JAMIE WOOLLARD 
Flute FEMKE VAN LEUVEN 
Clarinet YUKO FUKUMAE 
Horn EVI BAETENS

Commissioned by The Royal Opera for International Womens Day 2022 as part of a series of pop-up performances created by women composer and librettist teams. This piece was sung by rising stars of the opera world, accompanied by musicians from Belgium’s Casco Phil chamber orchestra.
The Hardest Journey was based on stories, collected via interview with neurodiverse women around the theme of railway travel as part of the Europalia Trains & Tracks Festival.

http://www.annabraithwaite.co.uk
http://kerrypriest.com

Live Recording From St Pancras - The Hardest Journey

FR 235 Free Range Orchestra (before Vula Viel)

The Imperial Cosmic Oyster is a mysterious and enigmatic creature that can be found floating in the vastness of deep space. It has a shimmering, iridescent shell that glows with the light of a thousand stars, and within that shell lies a pearl of unimaginable value. 

The oyster is said to possess the power to grant wishes and unlock the secrets of the universe, but only to those who are pure of heart and truly deserving. 

It is a rare and precious creature, much sought after by cosmic travellers and intergalactic adventurers alike who seduce it to open with an ample supply of Transcendental carrots and Translunar vegetables in general that can only be sourced from the ancient Bronze-Age tribe of Bee-Whisperers

Imperial Cosmic Oyster

Imperial Cosmic Oyster (Opening) ShedBand

A digital conversion of an old tape from Spring 1991 with first 45 mins being a Dave Barber mix and 2nd 45 mins my compilation for a mate, who kept the tape over 30 years and had it converted to MP3. Very old tape, speeds up and slows down. Tracks:

SIDE 1 (Mixed)
0:00 In the Name of Love (House Mix) - Tony Ransom
4:50 Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm (Original Mix) / In the Name of Love (Acapella)
9:47 Elvis is Dead (Tony Humphries Mix) - Living Colour
13:38 Rollercoaster (12" Mix) - Ariel
16:00 What Would We Do (Hurley's House Mix) - D.S.K
19:43 Seasons of Love (House Remix) - Keith Nunally
25:25 Taste The Bass (Taste The Redzone Mix) - Safire
29:18 Sexitivity (Club Mix) - MCJ feat. Sima 
35:05 Unknown instrumental (ID needed)
36:46 Same Sun, Same Sky (Red Sun Mix)  - Tony Moran
43:00 Stormy Love (Salsa Party Mix) - Max 'N' Frank Minoia

SIDE 2 (Unmixed)
46:00 Lift Every Voice (Take Me Away) [Bootleg] - Mass Order
52:43 Give Me Your Love(Philadelphia Mix) - Be Noir
57:55 Relight My Fire (Julian Jumpin Perez Mix) - Julian Jumpin Perez
66:29 Brighter Day (Club Mix) - Irving and Romeo
72:39 Your Love - Frankie Knuckles
79:15 From Da Soul (Extended Club Mix) - Tony Scott
85:18 Eterna - Slam

1991 Dave Barber B2B Balearic Mark Mixtape

mute complex #5

Audio recorded and produced by Laura Khan Mitchison
Co-production and sound design by Steve Urquhart
Photo credit: © Tim Green a.k.a Flamenco Sun
Music: Revbejelde & Howlround

Brompton Cemetery Sound and Stories

Taken from The 25th - the tenth album by Magpie Lane, celebrating 25 years since the band's formation.

The 25th final mixes MP3s

The Trees Are All Bare

Free from scores. Free from constraint. Free to do what they like. A stellar lineup of women improvisers has joined forces and will perform for the first time at Free Range. For this special event, they will be reacting to the Feminist Improvising Group’s recording from the album Another Evening at Logos 1974 79 81. Expect the unpredictable.

169 - Free Women - Set 1

Phil Perry - Love Ranch - Maximus 1992

fréedom. 
[F ré E do mi] 

Bass Guitar | Electric Guitar | Ford Transit Van | London 

Composed and recorded by Samuel D. Loveless during the 2020 lockdown.

fréedom. | Samuel D. Loveless

Anna Braithwaite is a composer, versatile singer and performance artist.

Live Recording From St Pancras - The Hardest Journey

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