'The Red Meat Suite' for Chamber Ensemble

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

Like trying to tune a radio in the seventh circle...

Songster, Composer, & Sound Mangler

Warbling sea harbored melodies - rhythmic tintinnabulary cabalettas inside soft baked fairy tale threnodies - lilting moontouched theramins and/or psychic lithographs of balloons, barns, and braided banana leaves - sleeping during dogwatch in the crosstrees by the languid moans of threadbare weatherboards - gritty euphonic lo-fi transmissions from long dead moon farms - invocations from antique radios short circuiting in cool spring rain.

This is for the anchors which bind the sugar to the orange.
For summoning unseasonal titans to storm the calamity of drab hours, out of ether,
the cloud throned dumplings who give suck to fat breasted delight and unabashed waking -
the blimpy sprites who gratify each naked fig by imbibing their mistaken turns
into the cotton headed sighs of unloved mouse trap music. 



My work has been featured on various Netlabels, film experiments, and worldwide radio shows, including BBC6's "Introducing".

Currently researching for a PhD in composition at the University of Surrey.

https://youtube.com/@Mr.AndrewsGarden?feature=shared 
Mr. Andrew's Garden was across the street from our house when we lived in Seattle.
This was in 1959, before the World's Fair and the Space Needle.
We would visit the Garden when we could, and every day was different.
The Chinese would visit on weekends, in the afternoon.

It was a  huge garden and the Andrews were always busy working in it.
Avery and Sarah, Mrs. Andrew's grown children, lived there with them.
Sarah lived above the garage and Avery lived in the garage.
Avery fought in Korea and had a habit.
Cradle Needle was written for him.
Sarah was just wrong.

Michael Patrick Francis, my older brother, always took the lead in our journeys.
Everything in our selections is a memory of what happened. Do not become confused. The Garden is as deep as your imagination.
We hope you enjoy your visit.



Mr. Andrew's Garden-

Robert and Mary Andrew
Avery Marshall Chalk
Sarah Elizabeth Chalk
Joshua (Sarah’s infant son)
Kolin (Joshua's Brother)
The Chinese
Susan (She lived next door with her parents.) 
Elana Magnet (Susan's older sister)
John (The part-time Gardener)
Iris (John’s wife)

Instruments used on "Mr. Andrew's Garden"
Yamaha CS 70M
Yamaha CS 40M
Oberheim Two Voice
ARP
TX81Z
Lexicon 
Sequential Circuits 610
M-100 Modular Synth
Telecaster Deluxe
Digital Design’s LS161 Monitors
Klipsch Heresy Speakers 1979
Various Garden Tools...

Composer & Guitar Player/Teacher from Portugal.
For enquiries, contact: miguelbatalha@yahoo.com 


Mitchell Gibbs is a UK based composer for film, television and video games.

'The Red Meat Suite' for Chamber Ensemble

Jake Willson