Dartmoor Journey
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 Journey" consists of two CDs - Journey and The Source.
Journey is a musical experience created from a blend of natural sounds with gently voiced handcrafted flutes, brightly clear rosewood recorders, deeply resonant Slovakian fujara and gracefully melodic traditional whistles
The Source is spun together from the natural sound recordings made by Nigel over a period of 15 years. Moving from windswept high moorland to rich wooded valleys, this album follows the River Dart from its source to the outer edge of the Dartmoor hills. The calls of buzzard, skylark and heron are interlaced with the sounds of streams, rivers and waterfalls, all layered like a composition of musical instruments.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/pr...
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 Journey" consists of two CDs - Journey and The Source.
Journey is a musical experience created from a blend of natural sounds with gently voiced handcrafted flutes, brightly clear rosewood recorders, deeply resonant Slovakian fujara and gracefully melodic traditional whistles
The Source is spun together from the natural sound recordings made by Nigel over a period of 15 years. Moving from windswept high moorland to rich wooded valleys, this album follows the River Dart from its source to the outer edge of the Dartmoor hills. The calls of buzzard, skylark and heron are interlaced with the sounds of streams, rivers and waterfalls, all layered like a composition of musical instruments.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/pr...
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