composed by Martin Arnold (1995)
performed by:
Natalie Michaud: soprano recorder
Alain Trudel: sackbut
Geneviève Soly: positive organ

Mole Meander

performed by Maciej Skrzeczkowski on 21.06.22, Royal Conservatory of the Hague (NL)
mixed & mastered by Lilita Dunska

for blandine & maciej

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Watch For The View

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-anne-briggs-11th-august-2020
Since withdrawing from public life and refusal to record any new music since the 1970s, a mythology has grown around the figure of Anne Briggs. Renowned for her crystalline, delicate singing voice, she adapted playfully to traditional songs about relationships, sex, difficult working lives and political strife.

In Focus: Anne Briggs

“Poor little human being! Little child of Time!” (Excerpts)
An interlude from the play “Sensa” (ca. 1917), originally for lyres 

Music by Elsie Hamilton
Orchestration by Rebecca Lane and Thomas Nicholson (2024)
Audio documentation by Sam Dunscombe from the first live performance at KM28 (Berlin) on 10.10.2024

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This music is in Kathleen Schlesinger’s Venus Species, corresponding to the Phrygian mode in her interpretation of Ancient Greek music. 

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MO Abbott (trombone), Ellen Arkbro (trumpet), Sam Dunscombe (recording), Judith Hamann (cello), Jon Heilbron (contrabass), Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone flutes), Thomas Nicholson (viola), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet), Marc Sabat (violin)

Poor little human being. Little child of Time!

Elsie Hamilton – Poor little human being. Little child of Time! (Excerpts)

Germaine Sijstermans - clarinet
Johnny Chang - viola
Fredrik Rasten - e bowed acoustic guitar and composition

Live at Maanplein, Heerlen, Netherlands, at the Cultura Nova festival 30.08.2018

video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho7eg9MP04w

Harmony for two or more voices (trio)

Pibroch

Nils Ostendorf: trumpet, shruti box
Kim Myhr: acoustic guitar


recorded June 2015 at Studio Boerne, Berlin

Nils Ostendorf+Kim Myhr Weissensee #2

Infinite Greyscale is delighted to present 10 new recordings by Alasdair Roberts. Alternating between unaccompanied songs and instrumental tracks, Roberts presents traditional compositions at their most raw and affecting. 

The Tunes

I am indebted to my piping friend Donald Lindsay for The Blythsome Bridal, The Braes of Tulliemet and The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman, while Chief O’Neill’s Favourite and The Flowers of Edinburgh were learnt from my fiddling friend Neil McDermott. The Blythsome Bridal is used as the melody to a comic lyric called ‘Fy Let Us A’ To The Bridal’ first published in 1706.  The Braes of Tulliemet lie near the Perthshire town of Pitlochry.  The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman is also known as ‘Carrick’s Rant’. Chief O’Neill was Francis O’Neill (1848-1936), who was born in County Cork, emigrated to the USA as a young man and eventually became chief of the Chicago Police from 1901 to 1905. The Flowers of Edinburgh was first published in James Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion around 1760.  The guitars are fretted in the following positions as the tunes appear on the record: II, II, V, VII and V.

The Songs

My family stayed in a haunted house in the village of Balquhidder for a very short while in the early 1980s after moving from Germany to Scotland.  However, I only took to singing The Braes of Balquhidder very recently after hearing a recording of it sung by the late Tim Lyons. The Seasons was learnt from the singing of the late Aberdeen singer Lizzie Higgins, daughter of Jeannie Robertson.  Edinburgh-based Ulsterman Cathal McConnell knows many fine songs, most of which are collected in his book/CD set I Have Travelled This Country.  I learnt this version of The Curragh of Kildare from that source.  The late Sheila Stewart of Rattray, near Blairgowrie, is the source of my version of False, False.  I would be unable to attribute my singing of Roberts Burns’ The Silver Tassie to a single source, owing to its general popularity in Scotland. I am forever indebted to all the fine singers and musicians mentioned above, and to many others unmentioned, for passing on songs and tunes to me over the years.

Alasdair Roberts
London, June 2020

Fretted and Indebted

The Braes Of Tulliemet

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Fredrik Rasten is a guitarist and composer (b. 1988) working in the field of experimental music, both improvised and composed. His main focuses are exploring and utilizing the acoustic possibilities of the steel string guitar. The last years he has been working extensively with just intonation, taking an extended concept of consonance as a point of departure. He has studied in this field with  Catherine Lamb and Marc Sabat in Berlin. In his work he is also inspired by wandelweiser music, traditional british folk and early music.



contact: fredrikrasten(at)gmail(dot)com

Harmony for two or more voices (trio)

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