Amores Pasados

 
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ANONYMOUS / CAMPION / BANKS / PICFORTH
Amores Pasados
John Potter (voice) Anna maria Friman (voice) Ariel Abramovich (lute) Jacob Heringman (lute)

[ ECM New Series / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 26 July 2015

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For this innovative attempt to bridge the gap between art song and pop song, John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), Sting and Genesis-keyboardist Tony Banks were commissioned to write new lute songs. "Asking a rock music composer to set existing poetry within a genre we knew well meant that we singers wouldn't need to pretend to be pop singers - we were still 'interpreting' a text in a way that we're familiar with", writes John Potter in the liner notes. Thus Tony Banks set 17th century poems by Thomas Campion (whose songs can also be heard here) and John Paul Jones set poems from the three great ages of Spanish literature. Sting's 'Bury me deep in the Greenwood' was originally intended for the film Robin Hood, and incorporates his own lyrics. Arrangement of the songs was established in the session at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in November 2014 with lutenists Ariel Abramovich and Jacob Heringman. The album's unconventional meeting of the old and the new was rounded off with songs by 20th century composers E J Moeran and Peter Warlock as well as the only piece known from the (almost anonymous) renaissance musician Picforth.

Anna Maria Friman: voice & hardanger fiddle
John Potter: voice
Ariel Abramovich: lute
Jacob Heringman: lute

"Potter and Friman especially are old hands at category-crunching, and, as ever, make it work through the integrity of their performances, as true to themselves as to the music, supported by lovely playing from the lutenists." BBC Music Magazine, November 2015

"John Potter has been a Genesis fan since the 1970s, and there's an audible dose of mutual fandom at the heart of this moody collection of lute songs old and new, plus the worthy breakdown of distinctions between "art song" and "pop song"... Potter sings with a straight, breathy voice, determined not to sound too classical." The Guardian, 2nd July 2015 ****

Tracks:

01 - Al son de los arroyuelos - Lope de Vega / John Paul Jones 5:05
02 - No dormía - Gustavo Adolfo Becquer / John Paul Jones 5:19
03 - So ell encina - Anonymous / John Paul Jones 4:32
04 Sleep - John Fletcher / Peter Warlock 2:23
05 Follow thy fair sun - Thomas Campion 3:29
06 Oft have I sighed - Thomas Campion 3:30
07 In nomine - Picforth 1 2:30
08 The cypress curtain of the night - Thomas Campion 3:14
09 Follow thy fair sun (var.) - Tony Banks 3:37
10 Oh Fair enough are sky and plain A.E. Housman / E.J. Moeran 2:18
11 The cypress curtain of the night (var.) - Tony Banks 3:35
12 In nomine 2 - Picforth 2:17
13 Bury me deep in the greenwood - Sting 4:00