Breathing Space
Genevieve Lacey, composer
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Created by ARIA Award-winning composer and performer Genevieve Lacey, Breathing Space is an oasis of quiet reverberations, revealing the calls, tremulations and deep stirrings of country.
Commissioned by the National Museum of Australia for its Garden of Australian Dreams installation, the composition is vast, in response to the epic continent of Australia.
It summons the miraculous and precious biological and human diversity of this ancient land. It’s a gently, constantly shifting sound world, a way to think, to dream, and to quietly link inner and outer worlds.
Track List:
1. The World Will Always Need its Dreamers
The Consort of Melbourne, Linda Kent (organ), Eugene Ughetti (percussion)
2. Country Renews
Erkki Veltheim (violin and viola), Speak Percussion, Amadou Suso (kora),
Sunny Kim (voice)
3. Cool Burning
The Consort of Melbourne, Linda Kent (organ), Eugene Ughetti (percussion)
4. All Time is Intertwined
Mindy Meng Wang (guzheng), Vahideh Eisaei (qanun), Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo, baroque guitar), Speak Percussion, Erkki Veltheim (violin and viola)
5. Into the Trees
Phil Slater (trumpet), Marshall McGuire (harp), Linda Kent (organ)
6. Imilang Yinya
Lou Bennett (voice), Speak Percussion, Erkki Veltheim (violin and viola)
7. The Flow of Rivers, of Tides, of Stars
Mindy Meng Wang (guzheng), Vahideh Eisaei (qanun), Simon Martyn-Ellis
(theorbo, baroque guitar), Speak Percussion, Erkki Veltheim (violin and viola)
8. Forget My Name
The Consort of Melbourne, Linda Kent (organ), Speak Percussion, Phil Slater (trumpet), Marshall McGuire (harp)
9. The Ancestors Bring the Life Back
Speak Percussion, Erkki Veltheim (violin and viola), Sunny Kim (voice), Mindy Meng Wang (guzheng), Linda Kent (organ), The Consort of Melbourne
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ABC Classics CD
ABCL0057