Orlando Consort, Perfect Houseplants - Extempore II (2013)

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Artist: Orlando Consort, Perfect Houseplants
Title: Extempore II
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 62:47
Total Size: 382 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1 Motet - "The Man, the Man" 3:56
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Huw Warren, Composer
2 Introit - "Approach" 2:03
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Donald Greig, Composer
3 Processional Fanfare - "Tumult" 1:01
by Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart, Composer
4 Kyrie - "Mercy, Mercy" 2:14
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart, Composer
5 Gloria - "Glory be" 5:54
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart, Composer
6 Collect - "Thistle" 1:25
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Dudley Phillips, Composer
7 Epistle - "Prayer" 2:46
by Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart, Composer
8 Gradual - "Protectorate" 2:26
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Robert Harre-Jones, Composer
9 Alleluia - "Archangel" 2:38
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Donald Greig, Composer
10 Gospel - "Gospel" 3:13
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Dudley Phillips/Huw Warren/Martin France, Composer
11 Credo - "Crier" 6:50
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Huw Warren, Composer
12 Secret/Offertory - "Umballa" 3:54
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Donald Greig, Composer
13 Preface - "Ministry of Angels" 1:55
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Dudley Phillips/Mark Lockheart, Composer
14 Sanctus - "Coeli et Terra" 5:08
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
15 Benedictus - "Draconus" 1:32
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Dudley Phillips, Composer
16 Paternoster - Pater noster 0:21
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Dudley Phillips, Composer
17 Paternoster - "Haubregon" 3:29
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Dudley Phillips, Composer
18 Pax - Pax 0:29
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart, Composer
19 Agnus Dei - "Deliverance" 2:16
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart, Composer
20 Communion - "Above the clouds" 2:59
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart, Composer
21 Post Communion - "Intercession" 0:57
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Donald Greig/Charles Daniels, Composer
22 Dismissal - "Burgate" 1:39
by The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants
Angus Smith, Composer
23 Recessional - "Dona nobis pacem" 3:33
by Orlando Consort & Perfect Houseplants
Huw Warren, Composer

Performers:
Orlando Consort
Robert Harre-Jones (counter-tenor)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
Angus Smith (tenor)
Donald Greig (baritone)

Perfect Houseplants
Mark Lockheart (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet)
Huw Warren (piano, prepared piano)
Dudley Phillips (acoustic bass, electric bass)
Martin France (drums, electric percussion)

Extempore II is the second collaboration between two quartets in widely varying fields: the early music specialist vocal group Orlando Consort and the jazz combo Perfect Houseplants. This project is structured as a mass in honor of St. Michael based around the medieval tune L'homme armé and various members of both groups are responsible for the pieces that make up the whole. The resulting patchwork arrangement of ideas works better in the second half of the program than it does in the first, where the variety of approaches seems a bit disorderly in terms of overall flow. On the surface, this type of collaboration invites comparison with Jan Garbarek's spacey and successful recordings with the Hilliard Ensemble, but beyond that there is nothing in common to be found between the two. Extempore II is very English in style and at times is reminiscent of progressive 1970s groups such as Gentle Giant or Matching Mole. At first listen the opening treatment of L'Homme Armé might tickle your funny bone, as the combination of the strident fourteenth century battle song and progressive jazz is so improbable. But once into Extempore II, you get a sense that there is something about the disc that works. In the Sanctus, Credo, Agnus Dei, and concluding Dona nobis pacem, the combination works very well -- these mass movements contain some genuinely moving, well-considered, and well-improvised music. Extempore II is almost a sure-fire hit for jazz-loving clergy; as to how lay people may approach it is another matter. Nonetheless, Extempore II is a challenging, thought-provoking disc that represents a change of pace for fans of either jazz or medieval music, even if there is no guarantee that it will be embraced by either category of listeners.

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