Alkemie: A Fine Companion
Alkemie: A Fine Companion
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Alkemie
Label: Bright Shiny Things
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 669936779819
Genre: Rock
A FINE COMPANION is an album of newly-composed settings of troubadour songs and texts, written in a dream-pop /shoegaze/ psychedelic rock style for an amplified combination of medieval and new instruments. The texts of this project were chosen by Charles Mueller (composer) and the ensemble, with a focus on troubadour lyrics that expand or refute the standard tropes of chivalrous love by choosing poems from a feminine perspective, and by delving into the metaphysical and spiritual subsets of the genre. The unbridled sensuality of the arrangements create space for a raw experience that inspires a visceral reaction in the listener. Mueller has used pre-existing troubadour music as a melodic and modal prompt on a number of pieces, with direct quotations organically morphing as if in an inspired game of telephone.
Tracks:
1.1 the switch with which one switches oneself
1.2 love is like the spark (escoutatz!)
1.3 seguin + valensa
1.4 i know a lady
1.5 judas
1.6 nor
1.7 the butterfly
1.8 (find yourself) a fine companion
1.9 d'aurenga
