Justin Pearson, The Locrian Singers, Jonathan Darbourne, Justin Pearson - Between Midnight and Sunrise (2025)

Tracklist

01. Earth's Imagined Corners: No. 1, Willows
02. Earth's Imagined Corners: No. 2, Leatherback
03. Earth's Imagined Corners: No. 3, Fireflies
04. Earth's Imagined Corners: No. 4, Pomegranates
05. Spring's First Migration
06. San Clemente at Dawn
07. Obliquity
08. Between Midnight and Sunrise
09. Dancing Alone: No. 1, Dance in Mid-Air
10. Dancing Alone: No. 2, A Slow Waltz
11. Dancing Alone: No. 3, Sitting Out the Tarantella
12. Dancing Alone: No. 4, The Renaissance Dancing Master
13. Dancing Alone: No. 5, In an Empty Theatre
14. Any Other Way
15. A Wing of Light: No. 1, Lullaby
16. A Wing of Light: No. 2, Zugunruhe
17. A Wing of Light: No. 3, Snow Line
19. A Wing of Light: No. 5, Nocturne

The settings heard on this disc meld together the talents of two outstanding creative artists, the composer Paul Honey and the poet Gregory Warren Wilson, producing a collection in which the inner life of the listener is both confronted and empowered. Warren Wilson’s metaphysically infused set of haiku, Earth’s Imagined Corners, derives its title from the seventh of John Donne’s Divine Meditations, in an evocative setting for sixteen unaccompanied voices and solo cello. It was conceived as a sequence of four individual movements (Willows, Leatherback, Fireflies, Pomegranates), three of which invoke the fundamental elemental forces at work on our planet - water, earth, and fire. The final constant explored here is time, that boundless exponential continuum within which the human experience itself unfolds.

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