Untold Things

by Jocelyn Pook

Untold Things cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 March 2001
  • Label: Real World Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 50:26
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

British composer Jocelyn Pook assembled 'Untold Things' from her theatre and concert work, its polyphonic chant, strings and invented vocal languages creating a ritualistic, neoclassical sound world. The record extends the idiom she brought to film in 'Eyes Wide Shut'.

Genres

Descriptors: ritualistic, polyphonic, vocal-group, medieval, strings

Tracklist

  1. Dionysus (5:00)
  2. Red Song (4:08)
  3. Upon This Rock (5:16)
  4. Yellow Fever Psalm (5:00)
  5. Hell, Fire And Damnation (5:20)
  6. Take Off Your Veil (4:56)
  7. The Last Day (4:57)
  8. Saints And Sinners (4:12)
  9. Butterfly Song (3:39)
  10. Calls, Cries And Clamours (3:29)
  11. Saffron (4:29)

Credits

  • Harvey Brough - arranged by [additional], psaltery, vocals, drum programming
  • Kelly McCusker - violin, vocals
  • Abdullah Chhadeh - performer [qanun]
  • Dragan Aleksie - drums [chest drumming]
  • Manickam Yogeswaran - tabla, performer [gangira], vocals
  • Dan Blore - graphics [design], cover [cover image manipulation]
  • Marc Bessant - graphics [design], cover [cover image manipulation]
  • Bob Ludwig - mastered by, mastering
  • Kevin Killen - mixed by, mix
  • Martha Ladly - design [additional & co-ordination]
  • Ben Findlay - engineer
  • Dragan Aleksic - photography by

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