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All Is Calm, All Is Bright EP 2022

by Arthur Durkee

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Fantasie-Impromptu on "Silent Night" 07:09
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Coventry Carol 03:29
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Winter Starlight 04:57
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The Holly and the Ivy / Sussex Carol 03:27
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Silent Night Waltz 04:44
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All Is Calm, All Is Bright (EP 2022)

A small EP of old and new music for the Christmas & Winter Solstice season.

I minored in Early Music and ethnomusicology in music school. I did a special study on Medieval English Christmas carols. Medieval and Renaissance music has always been a special interest; I was and still am a fan of the Early Music revival movement that began when I was young.

Hence my choice to make an album of Christmas music revolved which Medieval and Renaissance carols I would like to record. The carols presented here suit my purpose to showcase the most ancient of carols alongside the modern, including both an original piece, "Winter Starlight," and a mood piece inspired by "Silent Night."

This album circles around the mood of midwinter mystery evoked by "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night"), one of the quietest, prettiest carols of all. This carol indeed gives the album its title phrase.

For me, the mystery of the deep midwinter time is one of stillness, of peace, of sleep. It is a late-night mood, when you are outdoors, bundled up warm, looking up at the midnight sky full of stars in their millions, bright enough to light the snowy land around you, midnight-blue and ice-silver. The air is crisp, clear, and cold, your breath frosts, and mist is over the lake. Everything is calm, the land and the very air are still.

That's the mood that inspired this album, and I hope can be felt throughout, even underpinning the more upbeat carols heard.

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released December 1, 2022

Arthur Durkee: NS/Stick

Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Arthur Durkee
at Dragonsweyr, November 2022
© 2022 Arthur Durkee Arts. All Rights Reserved.

Original arrangements of ancient carols were inspired by melodic and harmonic styles found in early music.

Artwork & design by Arthur Durkee

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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