The Night Life (Chalk Hill Blue Live), by Will Burns & Hannah Peel

The Night Life (Chalk Hill Blue Live)

by Will Burns & Hannah Peel

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Download includes 16-page PDF booklet with hi resolution pictures from the show and film stills, plus the album cover

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A beautiful signed and numbered LP-sized ‘Summer Blues’ letterpress print, limited to an edition of 200 and produced by artist and printer Nick Hand’s The Letterpress Collective in their Bristol studio. Featuring the wonderful poem Summer Blues by Will Burns.

Printed on 500 micron Cairn paper by Paperback (a small independent London paper merchant), in a gorgeous Indigo colour and backed with 100% recycled board.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Fir Wave, Emergence In Nature, Particles In Space, Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia, The Deceived (Original TV Soundtrack), The Night Life (Chalk Hill Blue Live), Just Like Honey, Kiss Me First (Original TV Title Song), and 3 more. , and , .

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1.	John Andrews - Introduction 04:57	buy track
2.	Change 06:41	buy track
3.	Afterwards 02:51	buy track
4.	February 01:09	buy track
5.	May 9th 03:19	buy track
6.	Out Of Doors 02:50	buy track
7.	Chalk Hill Blue 03:14	buy track
8.	Wendover Bucks 04:12	buy track
9.	Spring Dawn On Mad Mile 05:30	buy track
10.	Summer Blues 02:53	buy track
11.	Swallowing 01:01	buy track
12.	Ridgeway 05:45	buy track
13.	Mothbook 04:31	buy track
14.	Thank you 01:59	buy track
15.	The Night Life 05:50	buy track

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(50% of all sales will be donated to Friends of the Earth)
(+ Bonus 'Live Booklet' pdf included with every album)

‘The Night Life – Chalk Hill Blue Live’ was recorded in front of an audience on Saturday 26th October 2019 – Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican. This was an exclusive one-night performance of the album ‘Chalk Hill Blue’ by poet Will Burns and composer/ performer Hannah Peel. Plus the 2 tracks from their Pale Tussock EP.

As Peel traced the lines between innateness and external landscapes using synthesisers, electronic violin and soft patterning pianos through tape echoes, Burns’s poetry harmonised the sonic explorations, inspired by the heaths of Buckinghamshire and the rare iridescent blue-grey butterfly where he lives.

They were joined on stage by pioneering field recordist Chris Watson who interwove, through his modular rack, his recordings of rooks, fox howls, woodland branches, chalk streams and insect choruses taken from the Chalk Hill landscapes.

Actualising the album into life for the first and only time, a trio of Clarinets and Bass Clarinets joined them on stage. Melting into the landscape with their own sonorous dawn chorus, heathland melodies and wood laden chords.

The Night Life (Chalk Hill Blue Live) album was recorded from the sound engineers’ desk at this one-night only performance.
The audio quality is great but not perfect.
However, we’re really proud of the music on that special night and feel it should be shared with you.

credits

released June 5, 2020

CREDITS
Performers:

John Andrews - Introduction
Will Burns - Poetry
Hannah Peel - Synths, electronics, piano, violin and vocals
Chris Watson – Field Recordings, modular filters and manipulations

Woodwind Section:
Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Oboe: Guy Passey
Bb Clarinet & Bass Clarinet - Nick Moss & Oliver Pashley
Woodwind arrangements by Hannah Peel & Ben Corrigan

Live sound engineering, mixing and recording of this album - Phil Jones

Management: Steve Malins for Random Music Management

The Booklet:
Live stage photos - Jamie Cameron
Film stills - Kieran Evans
Notes from the show – Will Burns, Chris Watson and John Andrews. Also featuring excerpts of the musical scores

Thank you:
Jeff Barrett and all the team at Rivertones for releasing the original CHB album
Danny Mitchell for the layout album cover design
Chris Sharp at the Barbican

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