Alan Barnes Octet / Josie Moon | A Requiem | CD

Alan Barnes and Josie Moon bring jazz performance and poetry together in collaborative work. The music gives contrasting instrumental voices and spoken language a shared setting, using ensemble colours, rhythmic changes and expressive phrasing to support the character of the programme.

A Requiem includes Epitaph, Prelude, How Waves Work. The programme places Alan Barnes Octet / Josie Moon’s distinctive performances within a sequence of contrasting musical passages, presented here in a CD edition.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Epitaph
2. Prelude
3. How Waves Work
4. Seek the Light in the Darkness
5. Inter - Trench Conversation
6. In Memory of Marion Scott and Ivor Gurney
7. Gurney
8. The Return of Shadows
9. Song Without Words
10. Appeasement
11. Theatre of War / The Days of Wrath
12. How Peace Works
13. Peace Returns
14. When Souls Returned to the Stars
15. Dark at the Edges
16. The Holy Places of the Earth
17. Sacred Music
18. Lambs at the Slaughter
19. Last Post
20. Faith to Find the Light
21. Sunset
22. The Softening Heart
23. Liberation
24. Deliver Me