Buckner Building's arrangement of Merry it is while summer ylast -  a secular English song of the first half of the 13th century. It is about the longing for summer in the face of the approaching cold weather. It is one of the oldest songs in the English language.

Miri It Is

An entire night spent with anti logging activists looking for signs of the endangered Greater Glider in Toolangi State Forest, Australia this year inspired this sound piece. The experience made a huge impression on me and prompted me to record birds using my phone in the green spaces around my parent's home in Melbourne. I had none of my musical instruments with me so I mixed the recordings, adding sounds from Logic and my dad speaking to create a soundscape.

Gone To Earth

A Buckner Building original song based on the life of writer, Mary Lamb, sister of the 19th century essayist and poet, Charles Lamb. Mary suffered from mental health problems and murdered her mother during one of her breakdowns. Some of the lyrics are taken from the letters of Charles, who took care of Mary during her bouts of ill health.

Naomi Graham's Album

Mania Furibunda

A song to celebrate that strange day of the year - St Paul's Day, which according to folklore, was the day which foretold the weather for the rest of the year...

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Rambling Soldier remix

Tre Fontane

Journeying into territory awakening after a deep winter - recordings made during a trip to Alaska combined with improvised violin and electronic sounds.

Wintering Party

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Reis Glorios - music for the coming of dawn

Gathering

Buckner Building (Naomi Graham and Fritha Jenkins) lead your ears to places not always easily located. Reinterpretations of old english carols, north african folksongs and original compositions are combined with prepared sounds, live improvisation and looping on violin, recorders, english bagpipes and voice. Buckner Building hosted ‘ Tremulous’ -  an evening of experimental art and music at the Asylum Chapel in Peckham. They have performed at the Poetry Cafe, Selfridges, The Nest Collective open mic and on Resonance FM.

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