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Mike Brewer’s World Tour | Delphian DCD34080

Mike Brewer’s World Tour

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Label: Delphian

Cat No: DCD34080

Barcode: 0801918340802

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 1st February 2010

Contents

Artists

National Youth Choir of Great Britain

Conductor

Mike Brewer

Artists

National Youth Choir of Great Britain

Conductor

Mike Brewer

About

The internationally-renowned National Youth Choir of Great Britain is peerless in bringing to life Mike Brewer's transcontinental choral imaginings, headed up by the first commercial recording of Mike's Hamba Lulu.

Coming from backgrounds of both English choral music and jazz, I have always been obsessed by musical connections. I love to perform music of one culture with singers of another, to help performers to share an awareness of music in different contexts.

I have had the good fortune to travel around the world every three years with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. In the '90s I was invited to work with choirs in South Africa, and became fascinated the rhythms and sounds of the music of the African continent. Then in 2003 a Churchill fellowship to Mexico and Cuba opened up new vistas of musical connection for me.

One day I heard elderly musicians perform the Son Jarocho (The song of the black man) in village tavernas, played on local instruments in Veracruz, handed down through a four hundred year old oral tradition. The very next day I had the chance to listen to an Afro-Carribean jazz ensemble performing unbelievably complex music which arose out of that mix of cultures. The pieces of choral music found here are similarly hybrid, because in most cases they combine elements from more than one source…

Contents:
- El cascobel [Mexico]
- Yelly bo'dek dhaya fikri [Tunisia]
- Ej, Lasko Lasko [Moravian folksong]
- Pokarekare [Maori love song]
- Tango Capella [Argentina]
- Meguru [Kavango song from Namibia]
- Izintakana [Zulu bird song]
- Holday danaa [Bengali bird song]
- Tourdion [France]
- Molihua [China]
- Korobushka [Ukraine]
- Pueblo Sunrise Song [USA]
- Kvolda tekur [Icelandic folksong]
- Hamba Lulu [Zulu Wedding Song]

Sung by the glorious young voices of Mike Brewer's 140-strong National Youth Choir, coupled with a clear, excellently balanced recording from Delphian. Brewer fashions from these talented, young singers a radiant wash of sound that is simply stunning.” - Choir and Organ

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