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CIRCAEA - The Bridge of Dreams

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Faraway Press FP 033 Release Year: 2019 Note: a new project with ANDREW CHALK, plus: TOM JAMES SCOTT (known from the awesome LIBEREZ) and ECKA MORDECAI on Cello - 12 miniatures of extreme impressionism... "Birds love the woods - If you are not a bird - you will not know its truths - A quiet life is much the same. - How would anyone know it - without living it ?" Price (incl. 19% VAT): €20.00 More Info "Released July 2019. An edition of 300 copies. Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering. Cut onto lacquer at 33/45 in London by Noel Summerville. Sleeve design by Tom James Scott Circaea is ; Tom James Scott, Ecka Mordecai & Andrew Chalk The Bridge of Dreams was begun as a series of piano miniatures, played by Tom in St. Matthews church in Hull before it closed many years ago. In the airy and (cold) spaces of the vast church in the winter of 2013 the pieces further condensed into 12 parts of the album here, with wistful string arrangements by Ecka Mordecai and mapped out, finally, by Andrew Chalk. "Birds love the woods If you are not a bird you will not know its truths A quiet life is much the same. How would anyone know it without living it ? The moon of my life is setting. The life now left me sinks into the hills" (from Visions of a Torn World by Kamo-no-Chomei)" [label info] "Circaea is the debut project of ; Tom James Scott (piano), Ecka Mordecai (cello) & Andrew Chalk (arrangements). After the previous album, Scott and Chalk’s Calluna (Skire) a pause of some years followed and The Bridge of Dreams in fact began life even before Calluna did. With the addition of poignant and fluttering textures on strings by Ecka Mordecai, the album took on a completely new and special direction, which we present here now. ‘The Bridge of Dreams’ spans twelve tracks and becomes a story in its own right. Viae Memoriae & A Inocencia Mastered by Denis Blackham and cut by Noel Summerville at 33/45 in London. Full colour sleeve and pressed in an edition of 350 copies." [Penultimate Press] "Circaea, the latest collaborative project involving prolific British musician Andrew Chalk (Ora, Mirror, Isolde...) debuts with The Bridge of Dreams. Alongside Chalk in this new adventure we find young cellist Ecka Rose Mordecai and classically trained guitarist Tom James Scott, also founder of the Skire label. The twelve delicate miniatures that make up this album find protection in the caring arms of Faraway Press - Chalk's own label - and are a work of pure beauty."[Soundohm]