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Sunlight Patterns

by Assemblage

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The second single from the album Isolated Pieces.

Savannah Roberts (voice)
Mandhira de Saram (violin)
Steve Hackett (electric guitar)
Roger King (synth)
Colin Riley (organ)
Genevieve Wilkins (bowed vibes)
Dave Smith (drums)


All proceeds from this project will support the much-needed work of Youth Music. This organisation, like all the contributors to this album, believes that every young person should have the chance to change their life through music. youthmusic.org.uk

Sunlight Patterns (released on 29th October) is the second of six singles, each with a special combination of contributors. New singles will be released each month, with the whole album available in April 2022.

Composer-curator Colin Riley has assembled an 'online orchestra' of 27 musicians who have all worked in isolation without knowing about each other. The ensemble is called Assemblage. Pieces of musical lego have then been put together over the last 18 months following where the music has led. A fusion of musical styles and creative approaches.

Working be means of response, this project has been propagated from 17 small musical seeds; short haiku-like improvisations made on the piano by Colin Riley and Liam Noble.

Colin has invited musicians who he knew trusted him, to record sympathetic responses to any of these fragments. As he collected these back, his own musical responses were set in motion. Fragments were laid together, displaced, cut up and sometimes looped or electronically treated. Sometimes the original piano haikus were erased altogether. He followed where the material led him, allowing for an integrated language fully-exposed to musical genre of any kind. As individual pieces took shape further invitations to respond were made drawing in a range of vocalists. This next layer involved text and so helped to focus many of the emerging moods of the music.

The backwards-and-forwards game of garnering further responses was played for over a year. The result is 18 tracks charting the emotions of disconnectedness and isolation during the pandemic lockdowns. By turns the music is intimate, bleak, sensuous, angry, witty, and ecstatic: but always sensitive and full of detail.

The contributors come from many diverse musical backgrounds and ages. This community of musicians acting as a ‘virtual orchestra’ is at the heart of the project. The process has been to engage in new creative territory, and along the way to explore fresh ideas around what music is about at its core - connectedness

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Sunlight patterns
Scattering across sheet and wall.
Sounds break in and out.
Now.

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released October 28, 2021

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Squeaky Kate Music London, UK

Squeaky Kate Music was set up in 2006 to record and promote the music of composer Colin Riley and associated groups.

For more information about Colin Riley visit: www.colinriley.co.uk

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