All posts by Marcus Davidson

Musical Harmony, a setting of the text by Hildegard von Bingen, written by Marcus was performed by Voice trio at Hildegard Tranfigured, in the Brighton Early Music festival at St. Martin´s on 8th November.

An SATB version can be found here.

A remix of Anima from ¨The Conscious Sky¨ was performed at Avgarde´s Samtidskunst disco (contemporary music) at Landmark, Bergen on 6th November. Below is the set list. Bergen composers supplied tracks for a great evening of music and dancing!

Great review of our Bristol concert on Keith Beasley´s blog Conscious Evolution Today!

September 19, 2019
The Sound of Sky Consciousness

Review of Standing Waves at St. George’s Bristol (18/9/19) and on CD

The best music of any genre, or from any part of the world, has the ability to transport the listener to another dimension. When that music is also a fusion of Eastern & Western and of Classical with digital soundscape then you have something special.

I enjoy anything that transcends boundaries of any description so, as long as the quality of performances matched the intent, I was always going to find this concert inspiring. Thankfully they did. Roger Huckle’s violin playing, for some reason I can’t quantify, reminded me of Stephane Grappelli. It often had a positively haunting quality to it that seemed to silence the thinking mind. Just what one needs after a hard day at the office!

Kat Kleve’s soaring soprano voice was as equally captivating as it was natural. Apparently effortless it seemed to lend itself to the pieces: particular Hildegard’s Dream, based on a chant written by the 12th Century abbess. Not surprisingly this piece was meditational. So too were a number of the others: enabling, in me at least, a strong sense of connection to ‘something beyond’.

Sky of Consciousness was one such piece. In the context of this blog on the Conscious Evolution Today website, it could indeed be offered as an example of what ‘consciousness beyond the rational’ sounds like. If the sky, like the rest of the cosmos has a natural energy and presence of its own might not one facet of it, in the human range of perception, feel and resonate with us as this number did for me?

For others it was probably the guest appearance of Pee Wee Ellis that provided the highlight. This legendary saxophonist blended superbly with the Bristol Ensemble in a piece especially written by Marcus Davidson.

As always, the acoustics of St George’s supported the compositions and performances wonderfully. As on the CD (see http://www.standingwavesconcert.com/) the depth and breadth of Davidson’s soundscapes provide ample for the modern, easily-bored mind to engage with.

For anyone exploring music beyond genres, or cosmic consciousness, Standing Waves is highly recommended.

https://consciousevolution.today/…/the-sound-of-sky-consci…/

Thanks to Toperiodiko (Greece) for the great write up of our album ¨The Wave¨ in Auditorium on 2/08/2019.

¨. . . without aesthetic limitations. . . an enjoyable, atmospheric ambient collage.¨

www.toperiodiko.gr/auditorium-καινούριες-μουσικές-στην-σκηνή-της/#.XUVZLlB9gnX

Thanks to Bad Alchemy for the great write up this month of our album The Wave, described as ¨head cinema!¨

A big night playing solo piano for Ballet Bernasconis performance in Amsterdam at Het Amsterdam Theaterhuis on Saturday 15th June 2019. Inspirational dancing and choreography made it easy to play for!

Boen/Fiskaaen Duo recorded 4 Balkan Dances at Loddefjord Kirke on 10/06/2019. We had a great recording session, ably engineered by Cem Arapkirlioglu.

The awesome Volve Vokal choir will be performing Marcus´s new piece Inside The Pyramid at the Avgarde concert on Wednesday, 15 May 2019 from 21:00-22:00 at Rosenkrantz Tårnet, Bergenhus 4, 5003 Bergen.

https://www.facebook.com/events/592877091208013/