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Canticle
Clarion Fracture Zone and Martenitsa Choir
“Canticle had fluency and shape, and was astutely paced so that the hour long performance galloped past…Canticle was a celebration of the joy of making music without stylistic barriers; music which fosters that unique magic when improvising players are completely attuned to one another.”
Personnel
Clarion Fracture Zone
Sandy Evans co-leader, composer, tenor and soprano saxophone
Tony Gorman co-leader, composer, tenor and alto saxophone, clarinet
Alister Spence co-leader, composer, piano, keyboards
Lloyd Swanton bass
Toby Hall drums
Special guest:
Paul Cutlan tenor and alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Martenitsa Choir
24-voice Bulgarian Women’s choir directed by Mara and Llew Kiek
Canticle is a major work of passion and originality, written for jazz sextet and Bulgarian women’s choir. It features the Martenitsa Choir directed by Mara Kiek.
Canticle is based on an excerpt from the biblical love poem “Song of Songs” and was commissioned in 1997 by the Eastside Parish Uniting Church.