Most awesome live recording of the 2th festivalday 2014. Poppy Ackroyd played amongst bvdub (Electronic) and John Kameel Farah (Organ), what a wonderful evening!

Poppy Ackroyd LIVE at 9th Ambientfestival "Alpha et Omega"

An unusual arrangement for this wonderful tune from Wim Mertens, made by 2 marimbas, 1 xylophone, 1 glockenspiel, drums and claps. Hope you like my work! Click the link below for the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXag-w_soc4&feature=relmfu

Struggle for Pleasure /Wim Mertens

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'Miranda' from 'Prospero's Books'

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"This recording sounds best, when it is played loud enough for you to hear all the drones in the background, right from the beginning".
The mezzo soprano Marianne Lihannah sings this divine processional Marian hymn which couldn't have been composed before year 1220. It is by 'Perotin' also known as 'Perotin Magister' or 'Perotin the Great' or 'Magister Perotinus'
The words are by Phillip de Chancellor a French Theologian and Latin Medieval Lyric Poet.

Blessed be the womb of the virgin Mary, at whose breast the King of illustrious name, concealing in another guise the power of his divinity, has sealed a pact between God and Man'.

 'O Wondrous Novelty and unprecedented joy of a mother still intact after giving birth'

The mysteries of the Mosaic Law are resolved. The tree sprung from the mystic rod, unknown in nature. Water gushing from the stone, a pilar showing the way to God's people are favourable signs.

'O Wondrous Novelty......

The eye cannot bear to look freely on the sun, as it rises in the air in all it's purity. Then let it behold that sun from the side, as it is reflected, in the womb of a pregnant woman, where it is enclosed entire.

'O Wondrous Novelty......
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There is actually a fourth verse which I haven't recorded as I was afraid of the chant seeming too long.

I hope you enjoy this, - I was inspired to record it after listening to 'Vox Clamantis, weekend Guitar Trio's wonderful recording of it

Centuries of Songs

Beata Viscera

Perotin: Beata Viscera | Marianne Lihannah (Mezzo Soprano)

By the look of it everyone is identical....

'Long May It Sustain' will be released on Erased Tapes' 10th-anniversary compilation: 1+1=X, on April 21st as part of Record Store Day UK. We hope you enjoy...

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Long May It Sustain (ET, 2018)

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Metamorphosis

Nottingham-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas William Hill returns to Village Green with Grains of Space, his second album for the label following 2017’s multi-textured Asylum For Eve. It will be released on 12-inch vinyl, CD and digitally on May 17th 2019.

Grains of Space started life as a series of minimal loops, recorded using a viola da gamba – a stringed instrument most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras – and a loop pedal. Using the negative space within each loop as the primary drive for composing, Thomas began a process of ‘joining the dots’, allowing the silence to dictate the next layer, informing the length, pitch and timbre of notes.

Between the overlap and juxtaposition of multiple layers, Thomas began to see melodies and rhythms emerging from relatively erratic elements:

“I began to see these loops - and recorded music in general - as a kind of fixed perspective that could be exploited. In isolation, a single layer may be no more than one or two notes punctuating four bars of silence, but when laid over multiple variations on that theme, disparate notes start to dance with each other and new connections take form, like constellations or deconstructed sentences.”

Using those recordings as the foundation, Thomas began incorporating a wide variety of other instruments into his palette, including bowed metallophones, gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, African kalimbas and metal tongue drums, as well as drum machines and analogue synthesisers.

From the tense, opening drones of ‘Carriages’ to sparser, more lyrical works such as ‘Curvature’ and ‘Refract’, Thomas again demonstrates profound compositional insight, crafting highly poignant moments rich with harmony and texture. Complementing this, a more developed sense of pulse and rhythm characterises much of the album, such as the propulsive undertow of ‘Willow’ and the tactile, modernist polyrhythms of ‘Furnace’ and ‘Tongue’.

www.villagegreenrecordings.co.uk

Grains of Space

Thomas William Hill - Furnace

The Dandy Warhols stopped by the 88.1 KDHX studio in St. Louis on September 04, 2009 for a live performance. Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org

The Dandy Warhols "Get Off" Live at KDHX 9/4/09

Metamorphosis 2 by Philip Glass
arranged using UVI Ircam Prepared Piano

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis 2

Marianne is a versatile singer and singersongwriter, who also plays the nyckelharpa. She is both the director and the singer of the successful businesses Funeral Singer UK and Wedding Singer UK.
She is also the lead singer in the duo Elyssia. And the alto in the duo Si Canta.

Perotin: Beata Viscera | Marianne Lihannah (Mezzo Soprano)

Marianne Lihannah

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