This is an unmastered, raw sketch of an idea I'm working on.

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Soaking Winds

Mood Swing

Taking a Ride

Taking A Ride feat. D0BBY and Deiniol Chynoweth

Steve Hunter nine lives album . steve hunter , phil slater , matt mcmahon , ken james ,paul cutlan , steve mckenna , dave theak , lucien mcguiness , carolyn johns , toby hall , fabian hevia .
ABC Jazz Label 2000

Nine Lives

Big Louis

Elysian Fields in full groove playing "Rescue" by our bassist and composer, Siebe Pogson.  Rescue was commissioned by our Director, electric gambist Jenny Eriksson, and is a tribute to jazz-fusion guitar legend, John McLaughlin.

Rescue - Elysian Fields

Guitar-free, synth-only solo cover of this incredible Victims Family hit. Nowhere near their genius, just a childish appropriation. I made this around 2006 I think.

(unreleased)

Caged Bird (orig. by Victims Family)

This is the full rendition of HALLELUJAH IN THE DARKNESS, which is dedicated to my husband, Richard, who has recovered miraculously from an aggressive cancer through his faith in Jesus Christ, the Healer of healers.
The audio was created on Sibelius Notation Software with NotePerformer and is a computer rendition of the work. Score and parts available at J. W. Pepper.
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HALLELUJAH IN THE DARKNESS: COMPLETE SCORE

Caix Redux

Villager

The bushranging ballad Streets of Forbes records the slaying of the famed bushranger Ben Hall by police troopers in 1865. It is generally believed to have been devised by John McGuire, Ben's brother-in-law and neighbour, after he saw Ben's body being paraded through the New South Wales’ town of Forbes. The song is one of the best-known in the Australian folk repertoire. It has been recorded by many folk and popular artists and groups. Mara!,  - the ensemble Mara Kike and I co-founded  - included it on their first album “Images” (1984),  and it has remained a favourite of ours since.  When I was working with The Marais Project on a previous album Lady Sings the Viol, Mara Kiek and I noticed melodic similarities between the Swedish fiddle tune, Lat Til Far, and Streets of Forbes.  From that observation the idea for this setting was born. (Llew Kiek)

Koen van Stade — tenor
Matthew Bruce — baroque violin
Mikaela Oberg — baroque flute
Tommie Andersson — classical era guitar 
Jennifer Eriksson — viola da gamba

Streets Of Forbes (arr Llew & Mara Kiek)

LAMENT is for piano quintet and empty chair, dedicated to my dear friend, Laura Flax. Laura, the first female clarinetist of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and member of the Da Capo Chamber Players, was a fierce inspiration. I planned to meet up with her in NYC on a recent trip, but when I found out that she had passed, I was too numb to speak.

Like metal to a magnet, I was drawn into my studio and stared at my music notation software, unable to move. One lone, long note pushed through waves of grief. It came again, and again. I finally wrote it down but struggled. My familiar harmonic colors felt so shallow in light of my intense grief. I needed something deep. Suddenly I remembered the last time I heard Laura play. It was a Messiaen piece, which he wrote in a concentration camp. It then knew its octatonic mode brought the depth of color to my sound palette that I needed. 

Lament travels through undulations of numbness, anger, denial, and ends with a final surrender to acceptance. Though the empty chair represents my own friend's absence, performers are free to use the empty chair to represent any loss of their own. 

Laura, job well done.

Score available for perusal. Parts available at:
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Lament

LAMENT for Piano Quintet and Empty Chair

Elysian Fields is an improvised music group built around the electric viola da gamba.  Band members are:

- Susie Bishop, voice and violin
- Matt Keegan, sax
- Jenny Eriksson, electric viola da gamba
- Matt McMahon, piano
- Brett Hirst, bass
- Rease Cameron, drums

Rescue - Elysian Fields

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