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Love & Lamentation

by Simon Wickham-Smith

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Sandokai 18:38
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The Kin-Kindness of Beforehand 12:29
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Love & Lamentation: Pt. I 15:52
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Love & Lamentation: Pt. II 12:47
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Love & Lamentation: Pt. III 14:01
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The tracks comprised by "Love & Lamentation" do possess spiritual features and hallowed tinges, yet they're also distinguished by what often appears like a wry sense of humour - which is not bad at all, especially in consideration of what the composer himself writes about his own liking/disliking of parts of the work. "Sandokai" is the mangling of a tape containing a recital of prayers given to Wickam-Smith by a nun years ago, the chants so deeply disfigured that the originals aren't identifiable anymore, looping and pitch transposing at the basis of the procedure. "The Kin-kindness of Beforehand" is the result of a teamwork with poet Rachel Becker, her self-recited verses subjected to a distorting treatment for which the woman's voice is rendered in dozens of different accents and tones, including a hard-to-believe conversion in a baby girl. The three-part title track revolves around the tone of Turkish singer Asik Veysel Sirsoglu, which - mixed with seamed samples of psalm singing of the Scottish Isle of Lewis - generates a chain of entrancing matters whose substance is gripping.

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released April 21, 2008

All works composed by Simon Wickham-Smith

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Simon Wickham-Smith

Wickham-Smith was born in 1968 and graduated from King¹s College, London in 1990 with a degree in English Literature. While at university, he met Richard Youngs; from that meeting developed a friendship which has produced many recordings. Not satisfied with making music, he has also been a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition, & is also a translator & scholar of Mongolian & Tibetan literature. ... more

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