Justin Pearson; The Locrian Singers; Grace Davidson; Jean Kelly; Johnny Herford; Matthew Fletcher; Frances Gregory; Anna Tilbrook; James Gilchrist; Jonathan Darbourne - Paul Honey; Gregory Warren Wilson: Between Midnight and Sunrise

The settings heard on this disc meld together the talents of two outstanding creative artists, the composer Paul Honey and the poet Gregory Warren Wilson, producing a collection in which the inner life of the listener is both confronted and empowered. Warren Wilson's metaphysically infused set of haiku, Earth's Imagined Corners, derives its title from the seventh of John Donne's Divine Meditations, in an evocative setting for sixteen unaccompanied voices and solo cello. It was conceived as a sequence of four individual movements (Willows, Leatherback, Fireflies, Pomegranates), three of which invoke the fundamental elemental forces at work on our planet - water, earth, and fire. The final constant explored here is time, that boundless exponential continuum within which the human experience itself unfolds.