Tabula Rasa enemble with Marcus
Tabula Rasa on the balcony
Anders Eidsten Dahl – organist
Tabula Rasa rehearse
Tabula Rasa enemble with Marcus
Tabula Rasa on the balcony
Anders Eidsten Dahl – organist
Tabula Rasa rehearse
Tabula Rasa ensemble and organist Anders Eidsten Dahl will perform 6 of my pieces at the Bergen Kirke Autumnale in Bergen on Sunday 27th September at Johanneskirke, Bergen.
Included is a premier of a new vocal piece Oh Great Spirit, a setting of a prayer by Native American Lakota chief Yellow Lark from 1887.
https://autunnale.no/sacred-space/
The lock down has produced many unexpected collaborations. A chance remark during a conversation with my good friend Clemmie Franks, has resulted in a setting of And The People Stayed At Home by Kitty O´Meara. Clemmie performs the piece in 4 parts, with images by Tabby Lincoln, artwork by Emmy Franks and music by yours truly! Kitty O´Meara herself has written about the video –
“It’s very beautiful….; thank you for sharing. We enjoyed your incredible vocals and the artwork and mixing very much. Very well done!” Kitty O’Meara
Standing Waves Roger and Marcus perform a lock down concert on Youtube on the Bristol Ensemble Live site, enjoy!
Watch Roger perform The Sky of Consciousness from our album ¨The Wave¨on the Bristol Ensemble Live YouTube Channel!
New Standing Waves promo video released, enjoy!
STANDING WAVES The Wave CD (self-released, 2019)
Seven collaborative compositions by Marcus Davidson, already known for his work with Chris Watson and Philip Jeck, and classical violinist Roger Huckle that merge the music of the eastern and western hemispheres. Following the first one, ‘Tabla Dance’, a heady and rousing number one can imagine many letting their feet respond wildly to, ‘Elegy’ is rather more restrained and polite as it veers away from the folkish nature towards a chamber piece a little out of place as the rest of the album unfolds to reveal an approach generally more in keeping with the opener. Fourth cut ‘Hildegard’s Dream’ includes a powerful and mesmerising vocal performance from Kat Kleve, whilst ‘The Wave – Part 1’ throws in vocalisations from Jayson Stilwell and assumes a more sober posture without losing the eastern elements that buoy almost everything else so well. The second part of the title track is more spirited despite a slightly sorrowful air hanging over the proceedings you can still imagine being jigged to, then the final, wonderfully titled, ’Sky of Consciousness’ brings everything to a close on the kind of atmospheric high note commanding further returns to this fray. Although not quite as subtly envelope-pushing as, say, Michel Banabila’s own dabbling with such areas, this delivers like it would be great in its original setting with films from Kam Wan and the European Space Agency accompanying it. (RJ)
Thanks to Radio Nacional de España for playing ¨Elegy¨ from our album The Wave on their forthcoming Radio 3 program Atmosfera on Sunday 02.02.2020
Musical Harmony, a setting of the text by Hildegard von Bingen, written by Marcus was performed by Voice trio at Hildegard Tranfigured, in the Brighton Early Music festival at St. Martin´s on 8th November.
An SATB version can be found here.
A remix of Anima from ¨The Conscious Sky¨ was performed at Avgarde´s Samtidskunst disco (contemporary music) at Landmark, Bergen on 6th November. Below is the set list. Bergen composers supplied tracks for a great evening of music and dancing!