Dartmoor Symphony
Just finished listening to "Darmoor Symphony" by Nigel Shaw.
I discovered Nigel Shaw, Carolyn Hillyer, and Seventh Wave Music over 20 years ago when Seventh Wave Music came up in an internet search for new age music. I listened to some samples and ordered a few albums. Fast forward to about a month ago when I purchased additional CDs from Nigel Shaw, and "Dartmoor Symphony" was one of those CDs.
This album, the third in the Dartmoor Trilogy, offers a rare opportunity to hear Nigel’s music performed within a live orchestral context. This was his first experience of working with an orchestra and embracing the task of preparing written music, although he has never composed using music score throughout his career. The first recording sessions were held at our farm; the combination of low ceilings and energetic string players encouraged the move to a beautifully vaulted yoga studio for the rest of the sessions.
Dartmoor Symphony is a soul-filled expression of the extraordinary beauty and power of these ancient hills, drawn from many years of intimate connection with the moors and a constantly evolving journey into how the voices of nature can be expressed through traditional, classical and indigenous instruments. Echoing some of the themes and melodies from the previous albums in the trilogy, Nigel has developed the music into a richly textured symphonic composition that describes the landscape and our human relationship to it. A sense of journeying, yearning, returning, and belonging are central to the feeling of this work as it travels through the Overture and four movements of Stone, Wood, Water and Sky.
For this project Nigel handcrafted a unique set of Dartmoor yew wood flutes, which are woven constantly through the music. Each movement also includes instruments made from the raw materials and elements of the land, including granite grinding rocks, wooden bells, water bowls and air chimes. Also featured are traditional whistles, small pipes, fujara, overtone flutes, piano, harp, celeste and other percussion. Vocal parts are sung by Carolyn Hillyer.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/pr...
I discovered Nigel Shaw, Carolyn Hillyer, and Seventh Wave Music over 20 years ago when Seventh Wave Music came up in an internet search for new age music. I listened to some samples and ordered a few albums. Fast forward to about a month ago when I purchased additional CDs from Nigel Shaw, and "Dartmoor Symphony" was one of those CDs.
This album, the third in the Dartmoor Trilogy, offers a rare opportunity to hear Nigel’s music performed within a live orchestral context. This was his first experience of working with an orchestra and embracing the task of preparing written music, although he has never composed using music score throughout his career. The first recording sessions were held at our farm; the combination of low ceilings and energetic string players encouraged the move to a beautifully vaulted yoga studio for the rest of the sessions.
Dartmoor Symphony is a soul-filled expression of the extraordinary beauty and power of these ancient hills, drawn from many years of intimate connection with the moors and a constantly evolving journey into how the voices of nature can be expressed through traditional, classical and indigenous instruments. Echoing some of the themes and melodies from the previous albums in the trilogy, Nigel has developed the music into a richly textured symphonic composition that describes the landscape and our human relationship to it. A sense of journeying, yearning, returning, and belonging are central to the feeling of this work as it travels through the Overture and four movements of Stone, Wood, Water and Sky.
For this project Nigel handcrafted a unique set of Dartmoor yew wood flutes, which are woven constantly through the music. Each movement also includes instruments made from the raw materials and elements of the land, including granite grinding rocks, wooden bells, water bowls and air chimes. Also featured are traditional whistles, small pipes, fujara, overtone flutes, piano, harp, celeste and other percussion. Vocal parts are sung by Carolyn Hillyer.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/pr...
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