Tag: free jazz

Portrait Landscape

New album entitled Portrait Landscape, performed by my group, the Genius Loci Ensemble. If you visit the album on Bandcamp you can read notes on the individual tracks and order a very, very limited edition hard copy compact disc. The title is a play on words, as I enjoy...

Opera of the Unspoken: Island of Unrest

This experimental jazz opera is a musical investigation into the mysteries of an ancestral tragedy from WWII, as revealed through vocal rituals, ancestral tarot, free jazz and dreaming. With this work I wanted to answer several questions. The first was, what could I do to honour ancestors who were...

why I sing Brontë poems

When I finished reading every single book in the juvenile section of our local library as a kid, the librarian suggested I move along to romantic fiction. There I discovered the timeless novels of Emily Brontë, Jane Austen and so many more. Later I discovered the poems by Emily...

composition for ancestral healing

In this mournful period when the pandemic has taken hold of us all, one of our great sources of expression and comfort, singing together in public, was silenced. At the same time, finding myself at loose ends, I finally tackled some ancestral mysteries that had been popping up regularly...