hard economic times, ‘What Are We Going To Do’, a song whose old-school structure hearkens back to Golden Age songwriters like Rodgers & Hart and Cole Porter, the wistful ‘So Much Rain’ and the six-part canon ‘In Gratitude I Sing,’ on which Sarah is joined by a chorus of guest vocalists – among them well-known Irish singer Niamh Parsons. Canons are another running theme of the album: ‘In Derby Cathedral’ has a canon by way of a postscript, and one of the album’s four non- original tracks is ‘New Oysters New’, a three-part canon
published in 1609 by Thomas Ravenscroft in his Pammelia: Mvsicks Miscellanie and sung here by McQuaid, Parsons and baritone
Tom Barry. composer A
lso on the menu are 16th century Elizabethan John Dowland’s
‘Can She Excuse My Wrongs’, which like the title track is a spare
arrangement,
voice-and-guitar-only ‘S’Anc
Fuy
Belha Ni Prezada’, a 13th century “alba” or dawn song in Old Occitan, and a cover of John Martyn’s ‘Solid Air’. The album is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2012.
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