Leon Gray's full collection of Nine Matariki carols, as arranged for SATB Choirs. 

Written for community choirs looking for something that can be prepared without a long rehearsal period, these versions can be integrated into any performance celebrating Matariki, Māori New Year in Aotearoa/New Zealand; the time when the Pleiades constellation, and all it represents, can be seen most vividly in NZ skies. 

While not as challenging as the original SATB concert versions, these works offer great variety and all the colour that each of the nine stars of Matariki represent - tuneful, singable and easy to master. 

Enjoy listening and do not hesitate to get in touch if you and your choir want to sing any or all of them. Head to leongraymusic.com , drop a note in the contact form, and the sheet music is yours for free.

02 Pōhutukawa SATB Carol

Yellow Dress

Farmer Takes a Wife

The new album from the Sandy Denny Project. Featuring
The Banks of the Nile
It Suits Me Well
For Nobody to Hear
Farewell, Farewell
Autopsy
London
No End
One More Chance
White Dress

The Sandy Denny Project are: Sally Barker (The Poozies, The Voice UK), PJ Wright (The Dylan Project, TRADarrr, Little Johnny England), Marion Fleetwood (Feast of Fiddles, TRADarrr), Gemma Shirley (TRADarrr), Mat Davies (Little Johnny England) and Mark Stevens (Little Johnny England, TRADarrr).

1. Banks Of The Nile
(Trad)
PJ. electric, acoustic and slide guitars
Marion: lead and backing vocals
Sally: lead and backing vocals
Gemma: backing vocals, piano
Parky: drums, percussion, brass, keyboards
Mat: bass

2. It Suits Me Well
(Denny)
PJ: electric and slide guitars, harmonica
Marion: lead vocals
Sally: backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Gemma: backing vocals, piano
Parky: backing vocals, drums, percussion, flugelhorn, keyboards
Mat: bass

3. For Nobody To Hear
(Denny)
PJ: slide and acoustic guitars
Marion: backing vocals
Sally: lead vocals
Parky: backing vocals, drums, percussion, Hammond
Matt: bass

4. Farewell, Farewell
(Thompson)
PJ: lead vocals, slide guitar
Marion: backing vocals, violin
Sally: backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Gemma: backing vocals, piano
Parky: backing vocals, drums, percussion, Hammond
Mat: bass

5. Autopsy
(Denny)
PJ: electric, acoustic and slide guitars
Marion: backing vocals
Sally: lead vocals
Gemma: backing vocals
Parky: backing vocals, drums, percussion, guitar, autoharp, trumpet
Mat: bass
String arrangement by Mike Stevens

6. London
(Denny/Gilmore/Stonier)
PJ: backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars
Marion: backing vocals, violin, backing vocals
Sally: lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Gemma: backing vocals
Parky: backing vocals, drums, percussion, Hammond
Mat: bass

7. No End
(Denny)
PJ: electric, slide and acoustic guitars
Marion: backing vocals
Sally: lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Gemma: backing vocals, piano
Parky: backing vocals, drums, percussion
Mat: fretless bass

8. One More Chance
(Denny)
PJ: electric and slide guitars, harmonica
Marion: backing vocals, violin
Sally: backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Gemma: lead vocals, piano
Parky: backing vocals, drums, percussion, flugelhorn
Mat: bass

9. White Dress
(Swarbrick)
PJ: pedal steel guitar
Marion: backing vocals, violin
Sally: lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Gemma: backing vocals
Parky: backing vocals, flugelhorn
Mat: bass

All tracks arranged by The Sandy Denny Project
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 published by BMG Rights Management (UK)
Track 6 published by Fairwood Music Ltd
Track 8 published by Intersong Music
Track 9 published by Universal/Island Music Ltd

01 - THE SANDY DENNY PROJECT - BANKS OF THE NILE

44 Pieces

Silence 17

Innocence's Fading (Acoustic Version)

Song of Divine Grace

Rindu

đồ mê 1 chờ ó - Fus

Chasing Stars

Starry Skies


What is Left is the fourth Solo album from Vanessa Anne Redd. 

“What is Left” is about endings and beginnings. It’s what’s left when everything is stripped away. 

It was written in caves, vineyards, up mountains and surrounded by escaped sheep. It was made making the best of every moment. It’s about love, making love, being love, of finding the beauty in people and life even when things are at their worst.

It’s an ode to the joy of life. It’s joy passes through the Garage rock glam stomp of “In for the Long Haul” and the trumpet stab grooving bass and drums of “Regained”. It’s about leaning in with the cosmos psych folk of “Leaner to the Light”, the power of intimacy through the repetitive bass groove curving round Vanessa’s soft sweet growl and harmonies of “Give me a Window” and the melodic French Horn and dissonant violin fury in the bookends of “Dark of the Sun”. It’s about  positive action, taking a stand however small, the power of change in the country tinged lap-steel hued “A Whistle can Lead a March”. 

The album’s songs pass through Transitions, instrumental sections that pass up and down like transitions in life, through the darkness of modular oscillations and the rise and light of droning violins and brass and high soprano operatic moments.

It’s a winding journey that comes to an end intimately with the minimalness of the solo piano title track “What is Left” about legacy and the memory of loved ones.  We’re led gloriously into the power and strength of nature and human love in the epic “Everything Else Pales” with it’s Wurlitzer, Hammond drone, guitar fuzz and Cale-esque strings, until we’re finally cradled into the quiet of the birds. 

2-Give Me a Window

01 - THE SANDY DENNY PROJECT - BANKS OF THE NILE

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