CDWhat Should I Say / Elysian Fields.
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Elysian Fields is Australia's only electric viola da gamba band, heralding the creation of a new and unique musical voice. Elysian Fields is the brainchild of viola da gambist, Jenny Eriksson, and leading jazz musicians, Matt Keegan, saxophones, and Matt McMahon, piano.
Eriksson is one of Australia's leading acoustic viola da gamba players - the viola da gamba being a very old 7-string instrument with frets about the same size as a modern-day cello - and the only exponent of the electric version of her instrument. Since its inception in 2015 the band has been an ongoing experiment in creating new repertoire for a combination of instruments and voice that does not exist anywhere else in the world.
"What should I Say" takes its name from a remarkable new cycle of songs by pianist and band member, Matt McMahon. In this piece McMahon sets four poems by Thomas Wyatt, a courtier to King Henry VIII. At its world premiere jazz critic John Shand wrote: "Here was a head-spinning dialogue between half a millennium ago and now, and a sound as foreign as dreaming someone else's dreams. It emanated from Jenny Eriksson's electric viola da gamba, the only example in Australia." Also featured is "Elysium", an epic work by Matt Keegan and an original chart by bassist, Siebe Pogson.
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