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28-04-2011, 08:00 | Michael We.
Neues Album von RICHARD MOULTRICHARD MOULT, der Kopf von UNITED BIBLE STUDIES, hat gerade ein neues Album veröffentlicht (SECOND LANGUAGE). Pressetext siehe unten. Hier ein auch im Bild kunstvoll arrangierter Ausschnitt: Pressetext:
Composer, painter and poet Richard Moult is the Newcastle-born author of innumerable songs, miscellaneous musical settings, field recordings and works for solo piano and classical ensembles, with a clutch of beneath-the-radar-albums and EPs to his name. Richard is also known for his work with the group Far Black Furlong and for collaborations with the David Tibet’s apocalyptic folk mavens Current 93, Irish psych-folk band United Bible Studies and Dorset sound sculptors Plinth. His debut for Second Language, is a three-movement suite of stark, immersive, beauty. Celestial King For A Year began life as a work for string quintet but was gradually pared back to a numinous essence. “I wanted to write something spacious and to my mind, completely spiritual”, says Richard. “I took as my influence very early Christian chant ('Old Roman' - circa 6th Century AD), but I wanted to strip the work down even more, doing away with any rhythmic and harmonic embellishments and creating something that seems quite static, quite still. I then expanded the work to include two extra movements for voice, strings and electronics.” The album is named after a poem of Richard’s and refers to the seasonal cycle and how offerings were once made to the fields in order to propitiate the gods. While the music doesn’t seek to literally describe any specific ritual/seasonal fest, it was Richard’s aim to, “try and presence a general 'pagan' sense of the sacred”. That he has succeeded magisterially in his aspiration is evinced by even a cursory listen to this haunting, compelling album. Celestial King For A Year comes in a hand-made envelope with a postcard of Richard's painting of harpist Áine O' Dwyer. Limited edition of 300 copies. This is SL010. Verweise
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