From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #2570 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, June 26 2019 Volume 16 : Number 2570 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: iamthemorning, Victorian song cycle [Dr Geoff Parks ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:13:40 +0100 From: Dr Geoff Parks Subject: Re: iamthemorning, Victorian song cycle Karen Hester wrote: > Lovely new song 'Ghost of a Story' from iamthemorning - > https://youtu.be/CjjX3993Sm4 > > Here's the blurb about the awesome St Petersburg duo's new album of > chamber/progressive music. > > "The Bell was inspired by 19th century song cycles, a genre established > by > Schubert, and themes from Victorian England art and culture. It is > divided > into two parts, but each song is a story in its own right, all of them > are > fueled by human cruelty and pain caused by it. Cruelty and different > ways > that we cope with it and suffer from it is the central theme of the > album. > This album is multi-layered and is, in many ways, a journey inwards, > taking > us inside of a mind of a person suffering from abuse or neglect or open > hostility of the society or a specific person. > And even though aesthetically the album is based on themes taken from > Victorian England's art and culture, it is mainly a way to look at > ourselves and modern society and realise that at its core, humankind > isn't > making much progress in terms of emotional maturity." We're hosting an album launch house concert for iamthemorning on 14th July. :-) :-) :-) Geoff ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #2570 ****************************