STAR QUALITY
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Keir
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A new album with a specially-created version for cinema.
Star Quality is an attempt to harness the power of soprano voice with all the grandeur of opera and set it in conversation with electric guitar. The compositions use various applications of technology to push this duet to extreme sonic places, finding aesthetic and emotional resonance in a language of its own. After the opening piece, a revision of an English traditional song, the album contains no words. For the cinema, three elements are in conversation: voice, music and (written) words for screen, revisiting a 400-year-old tension as old as opera: what is dominant between the words and music and where can there be shared power. Composition by Keir Cooper (from improvisations by) Ellie Westbrook
Recorded at: Mildenhall Road, Hackney; Rose Cottages, Hastings & Trinity Laban, London Post-production, technical and mix supervision by Grant Leslie Mastered by Giacomo Fargion Released by Discus Music 2024 Libretto written by Rose Biggin & Keir Cooper Photography by Ksenia Burnasheva & The Other Richard Supported by Arts Council England & Help Musicians
Sep 27th 2024
Album released on Discus Music Preorders available Future Performances Sep 19th 2024 Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival Cockpit Theatre, London Showings July 23rd 2024 Castle Cinema, Hackney, London |
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