DJ and musician Cerys Matthews along with Hidden Orchestra and ten renowned British poets have given us We Come From The Sun, the first great album of 2021.
Matthews, who is an advocate of the spoken word, invited the poets noted below, to record pieces from their collections just before the Covid lockdown in London's Abby Road Studio. In lockdown, working remotely with field recordists and musicians across the globe, Matthews and Hidden Orchestra, created a 'sound journey' for these poems with the theme of 'Genesis: birth, heritage, a journey about to begin.
About the album, Matthew says; “I’ve always been in awe of the power of a great turn of phrase; in poems, songs and prose. There are some exceptional poems being added to the world right now. So I invited poets whose work I admired for years to join me in this project. I wanted them to work across and with each other to become this journey, an aural adventure....with life on earth as inspiration. As Simple and complex as that."
Poets:
Ma.Moyo
Raymond Antrobus
Lemn Sissay
Cia Mangat
Anthony Anaxagorou
Kim Moore
Liz Berry
Adam Horovitz
Kayo Chingonyi
Imtiaz Dharker
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