NSRO perform Laura Rossi's arrangement of Vernon Elliot's 'Music of the Spheres' - from 'The Clangers' TV programme - Live at the Union Chapel 2008 (Conductor - Craig Fortnam)

Music Of The Spheres

Taken from their new album 'Dronne' (THM004 release date 09/09/2016) here is North Sea Radio Orchestra's cover version of Robert Wyatt's 'The British Road'.
In 2014 NSRO were invited to perform at the Nuits de Fourviere festival in Lyon France - performing the music of Robert Wyatt. NSRO band-leader and composer Craig Fortnam was so happy with this version of 'The British Road', he decided to record it for inclusion on the new album…so here you go!

North Sea Radio Orchestra - The British Road [radio edit]

Title track (instrumental) from the fourth North Sea Radio Orchestra album (2016)

Dronne

Taken from  the third North Sea radio Orchestra album 'I A Moon' (2011)

Morpheus Miracle Maker

Taken from the third North Sea Radio Orchestra album 'I A Moon' (2011)

Ring Moonlets

Taken from the second North Sea Radio Orchestra album 'Birds' (2008). Words by Thomas Hardy.

The Wound

Taken from the second North Sea Radio Orchestra album 'Birds' (2008).

Personent Hodie

Instrumental track taken from the first (self-titled) North Sea Radio Orchestra album (2006)

Kingstanding

Taken from the first (self-titled) North Sea radio Orchestra album (2006). Words by W.B Yeats.

He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes

NSRO play 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' LIVE in session on the radio....2009?2010?....ish

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Here's how it all began..
In the October of 2002, composer and guitarist Craig Fortnam found himself walking through the City of London with a sackful of tunes slung over his shoulder; tied to a stick (Dick Whittington style). Now, as all music comes from the air, the sack was all that stopped Craig's tunes from escaping and following the Thames out to sea. Needing a substance with the weight of history behind it, Craig bent down and began to scoop up handfuls of London clay, folding and kneeding it into the melodies and chords from his sack. As this was such hard work, he got his wife, Sharron, to help. As she folded and kneeded, she began to sing, so her beautiful voice found it's way into the expanding mixture.
When the music was almost ready, Craig called together twenty musicians and singers from all over the Great Metropolis and they all ducked into St. Martin's-within-Ludgate where the North Sea Radio Orchestra was born. As the clay music was still wet, and therefore somewhat fragile, NSRO only performed in the City of London for the first while. So, their growing audience had to travel to the strange and magical streets of old Londinium to hear the beautiful sounds.
Eventually NSRO ventured forth into the wider world where they have attracted many glowing reviews for their live and recorded performances.
They like to play in churches like St Olaves Hart St or St Giles in the Fields. They enjoy the resonant acoustics and the lack of amplification. Art galleries suit them fine too, like the Fishmarket in Northampton or Whitechapel Art Gallery in East London. They like to play at around five o' clock at festivals like The Green Man, Frome Festival or the City of London Festival. They enjoy performing in rock venues and opera houses with amplification or classical stages like the Purcell Room. Likewise they are not adverse to performing live for BBC6 Music or Radio2. If you ask them they'll probably play just for you. 
They have released four albums for your pleasure and are already working on a fifth.

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