Joel Frederiksen and Ensemble Phoenix Munich - Requiem for a Pink Moon (2012) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Road
02. Requiem aeternam
03. Pink Moon
04. Horn
05. His golden locks, verses 1 & 2
06. Place to be
07. His golden locks, verse 3
08. Wand'ring in this place
09. Which will
10. Rest awhile, you cruel cares
11. Rider on the wheel
12. Time stands still
13. Time has told me
14. Ocean
15. Hanging on a star
16. Never weather-beaten sail
17. Horn (reprise in F)
18. Requiem in F (Horn)
19. Voice from the mountain
20. Northern sky
21. Harvest breed
22. Come, heavy sleep
23. From the morning
24. Requiem II


Joel Frederiksen and his musicians have gone back in time all the way to . . . 1974. That was the year of the death, aged 26, of the British singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who was to achieve fame only posthumously. In 1972 he released his finest album, 'Pink Moon', which became legendary at the end of the ’70s and is here revisited in the style of a promenade through the Elizabethan era. A decidedly offbeat musical project that will surely intrigue fans of both Nick and Joel...

"I was deeply affected by Nick Drake’s music from the moment I first heard it, in 1982, just eight years after his death. The union of the plaintive voice, the intricate guitar accompaniments, and the moving lyrics in songs like Time has told me spoke to me. From the recordings I learned to play some songs, performing them from time to time with my guitar… The idea for 'Requiem for a Pink Moon' had to wait a good long time. Once in a while, when I did find a guitar in my hands, I played 'Time has told me', and noticed how people responded to Nick’s music. Then, very surprisingly, in 2000 I heard the song 'Pink Moon' in a movie theater as part of a Volkswagen ad, and was struck again by Nick’s particular art. It is an art filled with melancholy, a feeling and a concept uniting him with the singersongwriters of the Elizabethan age. I kept running into people of all ages who knew about Nick and eventually had the idea of a Requiem. The idea of juxtaposing old and new appealed to me. I decided that I would perform portions of the Gregorian Requiem Mass (the Mass for the dead) alongside Nick’s songs arranged for early instruments...

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