Sometimes spiritual is just what the doctor ordered.
I recently picked up the LP repress of Terry Riley’s Descending Moonshine Dervishes, a whirlwind of just intonation tuned Yamaha YC 45D electric organ sent through delays performed by Riley and captured live in Berlin in 1975. I mention that now because it led me here.
From the The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined, released on Brawl Records in August, liner notes:
“The raw sounds I make in here are calling to connect across the centuries, and while I breathe into the melodies I watch the daylight flicker across the vaulted ceilings and battered oak pews, I imagine Hildegard’s sacred music duetting in my head as I make my secular offering.”
Here is the St Andrew’s Church, Raveningham, Norfolk, UK where Cannell played bass and tenor recorders, a 12-string knee harp with a sprinkling of a guitar delay pedal and sparse layering.
And from none other than Warren Ellis (Dirty Three, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds):
Cannell has been on a creative tear lately. I’m a big fan. As a casual glance at this notebook makes obvious. This one is a bit more cosmic and supernatural than others in her catalogue, which is only befitting the inspirational matter.
I’m a big fan, too.
Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. Hildegard Von Bingen
