Where angels await me, to rise up to the light ...

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True, Rudyard Kipling was based in India - but the jungles his stories were based on are also found in the terai region of Nepal! Chitwan National Park is home to a healthy population of tiger, leopard, sloth bear, rhino, elephant, gaur, dhole, sambar deer, spotted deer and many more mammals, not to mention around 500 species of bird!

This soundscape was recorded late one afternoon in grassland adjacent to a stretch of dense riverine forest. Being mid-spring, the air was full of vibrant birdsong with orioles, barbets, doves, magpie-robins, ioras, mynas, coucals, junglefowl,peafowl and many more species all calling to create an incredibly complex soundscape.  The alarm call of a large Sambar deer can be heard as a deep bark at regular intervals, a sure indication of a tiger or leopard nearby.

For microphones and equipment used, see http://wildambience.com/sound-recording-equipment/

Jungle Book Forest

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Jungle Book Forest - Chitwan National Park, Nepal

New work of mine for choir, oboe and piano, the 2nd part of a commission from Singapore's ACJC Alumni Choir (first part was "Lux Beata Trinitas", which you'll also find on my SoundCloud profile).

ACJC Alumni Choir: IAM SOL RECEDIT

“Wait” Fantasy – arr. Steve Hackman (b. 1980)
“Wait” Music & Lyrics by Anthony Gonzalez/Yann Gonzalez/Morgan Kibby/
Brad Laner/Justin Meldal-Johnsen
Original material by Steve Hackman

Composer, conductor, arranger, producer, pianist and singer/songwriter Steve Hackman combines a virtuosic skillset with musical eclecticism.  A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Hackman has worked in various roles with soloists and major ensembles, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Time for Three, Michael Cavanaugh, and Chanticleer, among others.  Fluent in a breadth of musical genres ranging from traditional classical to contemporary popular, Hackman embraces this wealth of diverse material and synthesizes it into a uniquely new and compelling language.

Commissioned in 2013 for Chanticleer’s release Someone New, Hackman was inspired by “Wait,” from the French band M83.  “Wait” became a point of embarkation for what can only be described as an epic choral fantasy, incorporating I Sing to use the Waiting, by Emily Dickinson.  The repetitions of “No time”— impassioned and ethereal—break up the Dickinson text, creating a layered and dramatic meditation on Death and the illusion of Time.

"Wait" Fantasy

Mirrorball – Elbow/Guy Garvey, arr. Peter Eldridge

The British band Elbow has been soaring just beneath the mainstream since their debut album was released in 2001.  Peter Eldridge, from the New York Voices, captures the weightless, elevated feeling of new love in this arrangement, his first for Chanticleer.

Mirrorball

I Feel Better – Wally De Backer, arr. Darmon Meader

Gotye exploded into the zeitgeist with his 2011 album, Making Mirrors.  Darmon Meader, of the New York Voices, has become quite well known in the a cappella world for his outstanding jazz arrangements.  The jazz shuffle and harmonies inspired by legendary vocal ensemble Take 6 are a departure from the feel of the original album track, however, the arrangement reveals the song in a new light and allows for a re-imagined, intricate bass line.  


I Feel Better

'Terrifyingly BRILLIANT’
MARIAN KEYES, AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS

'A book that needed to exist in the world. It is the book that was missing’
LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN AND ANIMAL

‘Magnificent: I read it one sitting’
KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF TEARS 

 Sometimes Marisa gets the fanciful notion that Kate has visited the house before. She makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. She puts her toothbrush right there in the master bathroom, on the shelf next to theirs.

In Jake, Marisa has found everything she’s ever wanted. Then their new lodger Kate arrives.
 
Something about Kate isn’t right. Is it the way she looks at Marisa’s boyfriend? Sits too close on the sofa? Constantly asks about the baby they are trying for? Or is it all just in Marisa’s head?
 
After all, that’s what her Jake keeps telling her. And she trusts him – doesn’t she?
 
But Marisa knows something is wrong. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
 
Marisa just doesn’t know why.
  
How far will she go to find the answer – and how much is she willing to lose?

Magpie, By Elizabeth Day, Read by Tanya Reynolds

Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell, arr., Vince Peterson

A self-described “painter derailed by circumstance,” Joni Mitchell turned her focus toward music as a means to support herself during several years spent at art school in her native Canada.  Her musical journey is legendary—many consider Mitchell to be the most important female recording artist of the 20th century.  Both Sides Now was written in 1967 on an airplane, as the young songwriter watched clouds float beneath the aircraft.  It was covered by several artists before Mitchell recorded it herself on her 1969 album Clouds.  Mitchell reimagined the song on her 2000 album, for which it became the eponymous track.  This arrangement, by Vince Peterson (Cells Planets, Temptation) was inspired by both recordings.


Both Sides Now

2014 S.R Music. Original music composed by Vangelis. Piano arranged and performed by Sébastien Ridé (srmusic).

Vangelis - Opera Sauvage (Hymn) - Piano performed by Sébastien Ridé (srmusic)

Healing Love is about the endless flow of emotions and their meaning.
Tune in for Emotional Healing. 
Composed in 2014, August - September.

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Healing Love

Stellenbosch University Choir's Christmas album, featuring South African as well as traditional Christmas carols as performed by the Stellenbosch University Choir. 
Conductor: André van der Merwe
Recorded and produced: Gerhard Roux
Executive producer: Mohamed Shaikh
Production manager: Wilmie Kritzinger
CD Illustration and design: Arno Kruger

Sonneblom uit Bethlehem

State of Confusion

3 2ème Menuet De La Suite N°1 Pour Violoncelle Seul (J - S Bach), Valse À Noëllie (M. Nioulou)

Free improv over "Ubi Caritas", from YouTube video
Performed by Ola Gjeilo, piano/CWU Chamber Choir/Gary Weidenaar, cond.

Score published by Walton Music:

USA - goo.gl/e8d2Fx
EUROPE - goo.gl/NEAblz


Ubi Caritas with Piano Improvisation

My "Ave Generosa" for women's choir

Lyrics: Hildegard von Bingen
Performers: Cant'Ella

Ave Generosa (Cant'Ella Women's Choir)

[update: changed back to the original harp sound, but made some tweaks of notes and mixing & mastering plugins.

Thank you for supporting my most personal music!
hugs / Fredrik

Romantic Celtic inspired Harp (2016 version)

Full 'Sunrise Mass' recording available on:

iTunes - https://goo.gl/5y1qWu
Spotify - https://goo.gl/YGw0sD
Amazon - https://goo.gl/NmMSAh
Google Play - https://goo.gl/qqRRhp

Sunrise Mass (excerpts)

Ola Gjeilo was born in Norway in 1978 and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Ola is an exclusive Decca Classics artist, and his Decca choral albums include “Ola Gjeilo”, “Winter Songs” & “Dreamweaver”, featuring Tenebrae, Voces8 and the Choir of Royal Holloway, as well as the solo piano albums “Night” & “Dawn”. His global streams have now surpassed 250 million.

For more information, please visit olagjeilo.com, or find Ola on his social media profiles.

Sunrise Mass (excerpts)

Ola Gjeilo

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