HANNAH PEEL & PARAORCHESTRA
The Unfolding (Real World)
Northern Irish composer Hannah Peel has created a stunning album of indefinable work in collaboration with the delicately attuned Paraorchestra. With hints of musical innovator Hermeto Pascoal and minimalist Steve Reich in the beautifully delicate woodwind sounds, fragmentary ideas and pulsing rhythms, The Unfolding does just what the title says – beginning with the glorious, 10-minute The Universe Before Matter and then opening up into a wide-ranging, spacious sonic panoply.
The musicians of Paraorchestra bring Peel’s unique compositions to life with their intricate playing, stunning timbres and intuitive interplay. Comprised of both disabled and non-disabled musicians with a range of instruments from voice to recorder to percussion and electronics, they combine to bring forth the pop music elements of Peel’s writing (that can be heard in her collaborations with Paul Weller) alongside classical forms of expression, to produce something gloriously individual.
words JOHN-PAUL DAVIES
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