Classical Music?
I'm working on a couple of pieces with lyrics obligingly supplied by Lucretius and Ovid, from de Rerum Natura and Metamorphoses respectively. Lucretius speculates on the nature of sound in a passage which I reckon will work just fine in a piece for digital pipe organ, chamber choir and counter-tenor. One of the nice things about the digital organ is that MIDI socket: you can run it from the laptop enabling it to do inorganic things more associated with the Mammoth Gavioli and the serinette. Zoey Pepper is a singing bassoonist (haven't seen one of those since Rosie Cross of Pyewackett) and will be dealing with Ovid's account of the transformation of Daphne: a nymph to laurel tree scenario which seems well-suited to a player of this very woody instrument. Frank Zappa said of the bassoon: 'It has the medieval aroma...I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon. It's a great noise – nothing else makes that noise.'Peasant Girl Cabaret!
That's not necesselery the title, but a hint at the contents of the imminent CD from Helen Rivero, which we're now recording: it will be launched in Canberra at the National Folk Festival this Easter. I've just been applying ukelele, and we've recently had the tuba and musical saw in to do their things, and Helen is honing her pixiphone chops for the finishing touches. There's double bass, fiddle, accordion, bouzouki and various wind-up toys, too, in a collection of highly original songs by Helen. You can hear some relatively traditional tracks from our CD Luminous here or go to our CD Baby page, where you'll find the 'missing manual' for the album: all the details of sources and instruments that didn't get onto the CD package itself. ...OK, it's also a thinly-veiled attempt to invite you to a place where you can buy the thing...back to top