Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian - Welcome Party [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian's multifaceted creative output ignores the boundaries between art forms and cultures. She writes for wide-ranging ensembles, acoustic and electronic, eastern and western u2013 all of which is encapsulated in Welcome Party, a new album for sinfonia, choir and electronics.rr

A unique sense of place is at the core of Horrock's-Hopayian's music. One particularly significant location to the album was 575 Wandsworth Road, London, the home of the late Kenyan-born polymath Khadambi Asalache, where Horrocks-Hopayian's 2015-17 London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub residency took place. Much of the music on the album was inspired by the acoustic properties of the house itself (Cassete: Early Sketches), by the intricately carved wooden fretwork that covers every interior surface of this building (Inkwells), as well as by Asalache's writings (Cave Painting). Objects and found sounds from the house were the impetus for tracks, including Walls & Ways for clarinet (Ausixe0s Garrigxf3s Morant), voice (Ziazan) and electronics, which opens with the recorded tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the hall. Composing The Ladies gave Horrocks-Hopayian a chance to engage with the humour throughout Asalache's interior designs, including ankle-height bunnies painted for the household dog to chase and the eclectic paintings of women in the bathroom, ranging from Bessie Smith to Cleopatra, Pocahontas to Madame de Pompadour.rr

Welcome Party is a joyous story of creative revival in a time of isolation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The title track, featuring members of the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jon Hargreaves, is a loud, extroverted welcome to the album. Driving dance rhythms contrast with a deeply personal melody from the album's closing track, Lullaby Between Two, sensitively brought to life by the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge (the composer's alma mater) directed by Gareth Wilson. A touching tribute following a folk tradition of soothing songs, this lullaby was improvised by Horrocks-Hopayian whilst she waited for an ambulance to collect her Aunt, who tragically died after catching COVID-19.rr

Vocal works are the vehicle of some of Horrocks-Hopayian's most personal music, such as Ser (the Armenian word for 'love'). Originally commissioned by Serious for the London Jazz Festival in 2015 to mark the centenary of the Armenian genocide, this is a modal exploration of the two sides of the composer's Anglo-Armenian heritage.rr

Whether inspired by specific locations or by more abstract places such as her ancestral home, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian's music 'both belongs somewhere and speaks to our human need for belonging' (Caroline Potter).

Muted Lines

Welcome Party

The Cave Painter

Cave Painting

Swallows & Nightingales

The Ladies

Dancing Birds

A Poet

Inkwells

Ser (Love)

Walls & Ways

Lullaby Between Two

Bonus: Cassette (sketches)

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