Name: La Mer by Phoenix Rising
Duration: 5 min 47 s
Description: Lockdown compositions 20/21 with davesixstringsperry

Lockdown compositions 20/21 with davesixstringsperry

La Mer

A song about the onset of dementia and memories of all those I have had the privilege of witnessing being transformed through music & dance into "another time and space". With thanks also to Dave Perry for the original piano chord riff and collaborative ear.

My Heart Sings

The first track from forthcoming CDr release, The Garden of Earthly Delights, with Visible Near Midnight Recordings.
The Garden of Earthly Delights explores bioacoustics, field & found recordings; focusing on the voice and its cross- species expression by different animals. The music includes a range of sounds, utterances and expressions by various types of birds, monkeys and human voices. 
The pieces emerged through a process of layering, bringing together unrelated found sounds, and new recordings of my own voice, Glass and Bells. Some of this was left as is and untouched, while other material was manipulated, reshaped and treated electronically, ending up sounding nothing like the original. 
This process of juxtaposing and merging sounds by diverse species which do not necessarily interact or share the same environment, gave rise to an imaginary landscape. I was recording at home and sounds were flowing in from outside; garden birds’ chatter mixing with the calls of exotic birds, London’s Crows and Magpies in a fantastic dialogue with Howler monkeys.

La Mer

Phoenix Rising

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