Joby Burgess: A Percussionist's Songbook
‘With percussionist extraordinaire Joby Burgess ... thunder and menace are offset by taps, rattles and delicate whispers redolent of an entire percussion section.’
Joby Burgess launches his new album A Percussionist’s Songbook, a collection of specially commissioned songs without words.
The songs are by John Metcalfe, Tunde Jegede, Dario Marianelli, Yazz Ahmed, Graham Fitkin, Dobrinka Tabakova and Gabriel Prokofiev, as well as Burgess himself.
Scored for an arsenal of pitched percussion and electronics, the inspiration for the songbook comes from the poetry of Robert Graves and Birago Diop; novels by Michael Ondaatje and Isaac Asimov; philosopher Michael Sandel, songwriter Peter Gabriel, United Nation population growth statistics and Saudi Arabian folk tales.
Performers
- Joby Burgess percussion
Repertoire
- John Metcalfe: Love without hope (World premiere)
- Tunde Jegede: The Ancestors are within (World premiere)
- Dario Marianelli: Unequal (World premiere)
- Yazz Ahmed: Throw your pumpkin (& Pick me up) (World premiere)
- Joby Burgess: Come sweet death (World premiere)
- Graham Fitkin: Species (World premiere)
- Dobrinka Tabakova: Desert swimmers (World premiere)
- Gabriel Prokofiev: Dr Calvin remembers (World premiere)
- Joby Burgess: Take me home (World premiere)
Need to know
For ages 7+
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