“Afstande” is a rare collection of choral settings of four poems from Henrik Nordbrandt’s 1973 volume Omgivelser. In 1997 I was granted Nordbrandt’s personal permission to set the texts to music – an exceptional privilege – resulting in a cycle that transforms the poet’s themes of distance and memory into sound.

Afstande

The Monks of Notre Dame /// De Ore Leonis

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Track 02

The Angelus ~ Singing in Latin ~ (El Angelus ~ Canto en Latin)

Angelis Suis

Te Deum

Veni, creátor Spíritus
mentes tuórum vísita,
imple supérna grátia,
quae tu creásti péctora.
 
Qui díceris Paráclitus,
donum Dei altíssimi,
fons vivus, ignis, cáritas
et spiritális únctio.
 
Tu septifórmis múnere,
dextrae Dei tu dígitus
tu rite promíssum Patris
sermóne ditans gúttura.
 
Accénde lumen sénsibus,
infúnde amórem córdibus,
infírma nostri córporis,
virtute firmans pérpeti.
 
Hostem repéllas lóngius
pacémque dones prótinus;
ductóre sic te práevio
vitémus omne nóxium.
 
Per te sciámus da Patrem
noscámus atque Fílium,
te utriúsque Spíritum
credámus omni témpore. Amen.

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Veteran music writer, composer, producer and performer, John Matarazzo sooths the listener with Ambient, Chillout, Dub, Reggae and World Music elements under the Logical Drift project.

More recently, the Logical Drift project started to release a remix series, ranging from popular dub and roots rock reggae songs from iconic artists such as Gregory Isaacs, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Sly & Robbie.

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