Composer: Hannah Peel
Orchestra: Paraorchestra
Conductor: Charles Hazlewood
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Real World
Catalogue: 0801048
Release: 2022
Size: 541 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. The Universe Before Matter
02. Wild Animal
03. Passage
04. The Unfolding
05. If After Weeks Of Early Sun
06. Perhaps It Made Us Happy For A Minute
07. We Are Part Mineral
08. Part Cloud
09. The Unfolding Credits
There are pieces of music that seek to tell us deeper stories. Others harness the talents of the players at their disposal in adventurous ways. Then there are the rare, generous works that make us think back to our roots as human beings and to our shared beginnings in the universe, that lift us in their melodies, rhythms and textures, that carry us with them. The Unfolding is all of these things. An extraordinary eight-part collaboration between composer Hannah Peel (Mercury Prize and Emmy nominee) and Paraorchestra, it was made over three years in precious morsels of time around a global pandemic. These circumstances – unexpected when the collaboration began – add weight to its explorations in sound about who we are, where we came from, and who we could all be. The Unfolding also explores Paraorchestra’s progressive idea of what an orchestra should be, mixing analogue, digital and assistive instruments with a unique ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians to make magic happen, and accessible to all.