The Australian Voices, Camerata - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra - Rafael Karlen: Sinking Cities (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Sinking Cities: No. 1, Rising Slowly
02. Sinking Cities: No. 2, The Moment
03. Sinking Cities: No. 3, Twelve Thousand Years
04. Sinking Cities: No. 4, Swim through Windows
05. Sinking Cities: No. 5, The River Above
06. Sinking Cities: No. 6, After Another
07. Sinking Cities: No. 7, Done/Undone
08. Sinking Cities: No. 8, Strange Parade
09. Sinking Cities: No. 9, Brick Walls
10. Sinking Cities: No. 10, Everything Changes
11. Sinking Cities: No. 11, Sax Interlude
12. Sinking Cities: No. 12, Footsteps End
13. Sinking Cities: No. 13, Build/Rebuild
14. Sinking Cities: No. 14, Future for Some

This album takes us to the Turkish town of Hasankeyf: once one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, home of empires and civilisations, now deep underwater as part of a project to dam the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. How do you articulate the heartbreak of erasing 12,000 years of history and the drowning the homes of tens of thousands of people?

Composer Rafael Karlen and lyricist Pearly Black chose to focus on questioning what is gained, what is lost and how we choose what to preserve and remember. This thought-provoking and profoundly moving work is performed by two of Australia’s finest contemporary music ensembles: the instrumentalists of Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra and the brilliant singers of The Australian Voices, with the plaintive saxophone of Rafael Karlen weaving its spell in and around the orchestra and choir.

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