Name: True by Nathaniel Bellows
Duration: 4 min 39 s
Description: THE MOAT is a song-cycle that explores the inherent contradiction of what a "moat" is: A fortification of self-protection, safety, and autonomy? Or a defensive structure of isolation, alienation, and fear? The six songs in THE MOAT explore this complexity in a variety of sonic landscapes with emotional immediacy and linguistic rigor.

Second full-length album from DM Stith

Produced by Ben Hillier in London

Pigeonheart

Human Torch

Fight The Real Terror

Have You Ever Seen An Angel

Safe House

Midwinter Swimmers

Coming September 4th on New Amsterdam Records.

newamrecords.com/unremembered
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Sarah Kirkland Snider - The Witch

From the forthcoming album, Dreamfall.  Out May 26th on New Amsterdam Records.  Pre-order:  https://nowensemble.bandcamp.com/album/dreamfall

NOW Ensemble - City Boy (composed by Judd Greenstein)

THE MOAT is a song-cycle that explores the inherent contradiction of what a "moat" is: A fortification of self-protection, safety, and autonomy? Or a defensive structure of isolation, alienation, and fear? The six songs in THE MOAT explore this complexity in a variety of sonic landscapes with emotional immediacy and linguistic rigor.

Bandcamp

True

Written by Brian Petuch
Commissioned and Performed by Exceptet


Exceptet is

Sarah Goldfeather - founder, co-director, violin
Chuck Furlong - co-director, clarinet
Mark Utley - co-director, percussion
David Nagy - bassoon
Evan Honse - trumpet
Daniel Linden - trombone
Patrick Swoboda - double bass

http://www.exceptet.com/

Protosaurus

Champagne

My Brightest Diamond - Champagne

"The bird that was trapped has flown" for female choir, soprano solo, nyckelharpa and kokle (Vanessa Lann, 2016). Text: James Robertson.
Ensemble Putni, Cristi Catt, Anna Gustavsson, Anda Eglite.
23 June 2016. Sofia Church, Stockholm (non-professional recording of live performance). 

Commissioned by Antra Drege (conductor and director, Ensemble Putni) and Cristi Catt (soprano), with support from the Dutch Fund for Performing Arts, for inclusion in the Latvian production "Hildegard and Healing".



The bird that was trapped has flown 

The bird that was trapped has flown 
The sky that was grey is blue 
The bone that was dead has grown 
The dream that was dreamed is true 
The locked door has been swung wide 
The prisoner has been set free 
The lips that were sealed have cried 
The eye that was blind can see 
The tree that was bare is green 
The room that was dull is bright 
The sheet that was soiled is clean 
The dawn that was dark is light 
The road that was blocked has no end 
The unknown journey is known 
The heart that is hurt will mend 
The bird that was trapped has flown.

- James Robertson

Text used with permission of the author.
In memoriam Gavin Wallace (1959 - 2013).

'The Bird That Was Trapped Has Flown' for female choir and two folk/early instruments (Lann, 2016)

"Memory demands so much" for soprano and piano - by Vanessa Lann (2005). Text: Denise Levertov. Seven parts, all based on one poem. Live performance by Irene Maessen and Marcel Worms in the Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam (2008).

Memory demands so much,
it wants every fiber
told and retold.
		It gives and gives
but for a price, making you
risk drudgery, lapse
into document, treacheries
of glaring noon and a slow march.
Leaf never before
seen or envisioned, flying spider
of rose-red autumn, playing
a lone current of undecided wind,
lift me with you, take me
off this ground of memory that clings
to my feet like thick clay,
exacting gratitude for gifts and gifts.
Take me flying before
you vanish, leaf, before
I have time to remember you,
intent instead on being
in the midst of that flight,
of those unforeseeable words. 

Denise Levertov
This Great Unknowing, 1999 (rights to use text received from publisher)

True

Nathaniel Bellows

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