Songs, by Ergodos Musicians

Songs

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	1.	Beata viscera – Pérotin 02:52
	2.	Vedrò con mio diletto – Antonio Vivaldi 04:18
	3.	I will see with joy (improvisation) 01:08
	4.	The white birds – Donnacha Dennehy 02:30
	5.	The years that have flown (improvisation) 03:02
	6.	I am weary of lying alone – Traditional 05:46
	7.	This world (improvisation) 01:47
	8.	Beat the retreat – Richard & Linda Thompson 05:09
	9.	Weep you no more, sad fountains – John Dowland 04:50
	10.	Goodbye – Steve Earle 05:15
	11.	Ladrang mugirahayu – Traditional Javanese 03:29
	12.	Words unspoken (improvisation) 02:09
	13.	Angels – The xx 03:35

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This record is a celebration of the song, the most constant of musical forms.

Composers Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly have arranged, re-composed, weaved and stitched material drawn from the songs they love. Working closely with vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, reed player Seán Mac Erlaine and cellist Kate Ellis, they celebrate the way a melody or a lyric can live in memory, heart and limb— turning, dissolving and re-forming, but never vanishing. Experiences become transformed and transfigured, while other perspectives and insights come in the form of deeply reflective improvisations.

A 13th century hymn becomes a spacious meditation over a drone. An opera aria by Vivaldi becomes understated jazz. Sholdice takes a fragment of contemporary Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy’s Yeats setting, ‘The white birds’ and transforms the original, re-imagining the material as a forgotten folk-song, very different from Dennehy’s taut rhythmic landscape. Schlepper-Connolly’s shimmering take on the traditional song ‘I am weary of lying alone’ becomes a vehicle for an incisive, biting sax solo from Seán Mac Erlaine.

The devotional melancholy of Richard Thompson’s ‘Beat the Retreat’ is complimented by an hauntingly spare version of Dowland’s ‘Weep you no more, sad fountains’. American alt- country singer Steve Earle’s ‘Goodbye’ becomes a mercurial lament in Schlepper-Connolly’s hands, while Sholdice’s transcription of a Javanese gamelan ‘ladrang’ is elegant in its simplicity. The album closes with a tender, intimate re-colouring of ‘Angels’ by UK indie trio The xx.

In these songs, old memories ignite and collide with new atmospheres and counterpoints.

For further information, including biographies of the artists, please visit www.ergodos.ie/shop/songs

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released July 3, 2014

Produced by Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Michelle O’Rourke, voice
Seán Mac Erlaine, saxophone & bass clarinet
Kate Ellis, cello
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, guitar & voice

Roy Carroll, recording engineer
Alexander Harker, mastering engineer
Simon O’Connor, typography & design

Recorded at Studio Boerne 45, Berlin, on 2–4 January 2014. Mixed in Berlin in May 2014. Mastered in Huddersfield in June 2014.

Presented with funding from the Arts Council Music Recording Scheme, managed by Music Network.

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