This will be the first try-out of the work-in-progress that is Albion: a musical examination of what it means to be British in a post-colonial, post-Brexit country - a country profoundly uncertain of its future and wary of its past; a country that seems to want to hide itself under the warm duvet of past glories, rather than confront an uncomfortable present, and to wrap itself in the flag of an increasingly fragile union.
Albion combines that quintessentially English ensemble, the consort of viols, with digital computer manipulation of its sounds in arrangements of iconic pieces of music from these islands over the centuries. Land of Hope & Glory, Sailing By, When All is Said & Done, London Calling, Worldes Blis, Everything (Mostly) In Its Right Place, Sincere, In Nomine, The Cruel Mother, Jupiter, No More ‘I Love You’s’, Running Up That Hill, Sincere, Spellbound - arranged by Blasio Kavuma, Talvin Singh, Orlando Gough, Ewan Campbell, Yfat Soul Zisso, Sally Beamish, Gabriel Prokofiev, Genevieve Murphy, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian & Max de Wardener.