Late Junction
Swaermian (from the album ‘Ethe’) is to be played tonight on BBC 3’s Late Junction. The programme begins at 23.00hrs and will be available on iPlayer shortly after broadcast. Details here
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Chamber Music Vols 1 & 2
I am delighted to announce that the esoteric music label Zazen Sounds are releasing Chamber Music Vols 1 & 2 on CD, in a beautifully designed digipack format. There is also a special package available which includes their Zazen Sounds magazine and the two CDs, together with handmade incense. Orders are now open – please visit the link above for further details.
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Encomium To The Source (III)
In the clearing, I am reminded why I am here: The Masque of Fir and Birch, scattered and spacious; The noiseless Snipe, veering away Allowing stillness to be regained; The hermitic rocks enclosed by the Heather Which wakes after the Sun has left its Northern House But most of all, no other human To desecrate, as I do, the hallowed quietus. Here, a tiny pool among many others Where bubbles silver without sound The kenotic blackness of the water. The […]
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Encomium To The Source (II)
The Moon floods the ruinous garden Where I had strewn the debris of some former life; Crowbar, axe, wheelbarrow, fire… The freezing air vitalises, but overnight, the primula slumps to the grass Bearing the appearance of death. Out of respect, I keep my clumsiness away from this sleeper. Awake, my coal-dusted hands – which cannot be cleaned, no matter how much I scrub – Pull the door upon the night, and I lie within a bed made cold: I dreamt […]
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Encomium To The Source
Petrified cloud, blasted slate-grey and rose by ice So high as to appear an airship, static. Only in Winter weather do such clouds shape From the space between themselves and the stars, The nearest mirroring of ourselves: On their side, the Silence, to our Voice. The emptiness within the shed, between wood and ground Is like that space, there at the beginning as the empty grave Until I fill it gradually with a violence (Which moves me to paint upon […]
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Musick For The English Sphinx
The Musick For The English Sphinx EP is now available on my Bandcamp page. It comprises of a six movement suite for Piano and Strings, performed by Dream English and The Ætheric Orchestra, and recorded at the Lion Ballroom, Herefordshire.
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For We Are Not Just Stardust…
Musick For The English Sphinx V (For We Are Not Just Stardust…) from an EP of Chamber Musick to be released early 2018.
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Chamber Music Volume 2
The second volume of the Chamber Music series is now available on my Bandcamp site. It comprises of a three movement suite entitled Anchorites Of The Sea, for Piano, Baroque Violin & Viola, and strings; and Lord Of Time And Place, a new mix of an alternate version of Celestial King For A Year Part One, for massed strings. A third volume in the series is planned for 2018.
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