Daylight Music

Paul Hudson — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:49:26 +0000

Today’s Daylight Music was the most exciting visual spectacle, with James McVinnie playing the Chapel’s organ. Unfortunately, the organ is behind the pulpit. So you see very little. Luckily, James had invited some friends along who accompanied him. Mara Carlyle, Liam Byrne and HART. Musically it was nice. But at times I did switch off.

Daylight Music 27th June

Paul Hudson — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:56:21 +0000

Another interesting Saturday with a mixture of music styles and even some choreography.

Starting the afternoon was Thomas Stone who played a contrabassoon and activated percussion. I’ve never seen activated percussion. It appears to be some electronic devices connected to a laptop that would hit the drum to make a percussive sound. He played his own compositions and they were interesting minimalistic pieces.

Thomas Stone

Next up was HART. Again, interesting. He had that kind of high pitched alt-folk voice that was popular a few years ago. It’s not my favourite vocal style as I find it wearing after to long. But this set was just the right length which I enjoyed.

HART

Finally, a departure for Daylight Music, dance. With Lucy Claire’s music accompanied by two dancers. I never bought into dance. But I have to admit, I’ve been warming to it over the last few years and today’s performance really complemented a beautiful composition from Lucy. Most enjoyable.

Lucy Claire

Dancers

HART – Down At The Front

Daylight Music

Daylight Music 27th June