Set sail through Tingbao's exquisite dreamworld of storytelling, original music and immersive audio, with Cass XuXin narrating the tale of one boy's search for a song lost in time. Featuring new music from singer, songwriter and composer Richard Navarro and flautist Paul Cheneour.

At the Break of Day

Mo_Min_Ti and Max Height two spontaneous music making masters on a quest to discover what a moment in time means. Together they weave a tapestry of fantastic magical musical tales ranging from intrigue and suspense to soft luxuriant chillout transporting the audience to another world that is so real you can almost smell the roses. The fluidity of their rhythmic and melodic lines and complementary interactions only become this eloquent after years of
playing together.

A Moment In Time

The Free-Range Orchestra is a collective of musicians, dancers, and poets with a shared love of improvisation and experimentation that evolved from Canterbury’s award-winning Free-Range series of adventurous music and combined arts events.

FRO performances combine the uncompromisingly anarchic with a celebration of creativity and community. The orchestra meets regularly and have performed at festivals and venues across Kent, including Turner Contemporary, WinterSound (CCCU), Profound Sound and Folkestone Triennial.
Connections was recorded in two sessions at the Colyer-Fergusson Hall at the University of Kent. The first was in May 2021 with pieces directed by David Leahy, Anna Braithwaite. The second, in July 2021 to a full house public performance with special guest Evan Parker (saxes). These events were made possible by grant funding from the Arts Council England.

Connections

a priori - drink only, from the fountain of light

The Lossenham landscape rarely appears still. Movements of air swaying trees and reeds, flushes of insects, birds darting and diving, the watercourses and pools bare the swirls of rarely seen fish and there are fields filled with emerging archaeologies. Nature here can be light and beautiful or, on those long ominous days of grey rain, a weight on one's senses and, most unexpectedly, felt or imagined, the land’s lost histories somehow seep through. 
As visiting artist for The Lossenham Project Paul Cheneour has embarked on a quest of discovery, both physical and metaphysical, with no expectations other than to listen, observe, reflect, and respond. Lossenham's quiet resonances, rhythms and impressions aretranslated here into his cyclic scores and the collaborative spontaneities with his chosen fellow musicians, creating soundscapes that obliquely reference earlier forms - plainchant, twelfth-thirteenth century polyphony, classic chamber music fused with flavours of
contemporary modal jazz.
Within the turbulence of our unpredictable world, Paul&#39;s choice of album title seems to counsel us to seek goodness and light, to observe the flow of things and accept changes as they arrive, to hold fast no matter how unnerving life may become. This music is such a
journey.

a priori

A group of intrepid pilgrims, purging their impurities, are setting out on a quest to discover the Water Dragon Temple deep in the hinterland of an ancient region of old China. They believe the forest path near the tea house is the start point for this illustrious calling. Armed with essential materials, blue butterflies, and spring lanterns they pass waterfalls, stepping lightly through the dawn mist near the rainbow windmill. Watched only by the unseen owls they follow the meandering silver river. Suddenly they hear the call and now seeing with clear eyes they finally arrive at a willing surrender. They celebrate this by flying carp kites towards the paper moon.

Paul Cheneour and Zhuyang Liu agreed to this great musical collaboration request at the Quantum Leap Studios having only recently been introduced. They began playing with a symbiosis and an empathy that is rarely encountered today. Together they have created an album full of colour, dynamism, and expression with a rich tapestry of sounds that illuminates both outer and inner magical landscapes.

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Water Dragon Temple

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Introspection I

Introspection II

The Time Has Come - Moontide

The Time Has Come - First Find An Angel

World fusion, flutes and tabla, East meets West

Flames Of Gold

Flames of Love

Flutes, Tabla, World Fusion, East meets West

Heart of Gold

The title of the album, and much of the progression you will hear through these works, represents fresh ways of listening and responding, developed in part within a workshop led by Maggie Nicols in November 2022.

Paul Cheneour

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