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Elysium I

from What Should I Say by Elysian Fields

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Elysium (track 1 of 4)

Elysium is the second piece I’ve written for Jenny’s electric viola da gamba, the first being several charts I composed when I asked her to play with the Matt Keegan Band. At that time, I was really attracted to the fact that Jenny was keen to take herself out of her comfort zone and push into new territory. I thought this was a positive, inspiring energy to harness. In Elysium, which we premiered at the band’s first gig in 2015, I’ve made a conscious effort to exploit the inherent sonic possibilities of the electric gamba. I thought a lot about open strings, keys and range. I wanted Jenny to feel comfortable exploring improvisation and created spaces accordingly. I paid attention to rhythm and how to make a more classically-orientated musician sound and feel comfortable with a band. Melodically, I had in mind the idea of the gamba as a vocalist (most of the time). Jenny told me once that traditionally many musicians saw the gamba as having the sound most like the human voice. There are lots of passages in harmony with the singer which also exploit the vocalising idea. Over the past three years we’ve played the piece several times. I feel it has really settled as we’ve got a sense of what the essence of the band is and how we work together live and in the studio. (Matt Keegan)

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Elysium I by Philip Pogson

To travel on the wings of time to some fair place,
And find when comes to pass such beauty and such grace.
The colours of our dreams embrace,
Their once veiled souls now face to face.

The heroes of our world now faded from our view,
In heaven we now see eternities so few.
To judge not is to live anew,
They find their place as we find too.

And now the pain sets in the loss is so acute,
The bravest of us all stand silent and then mute.
To now discern with thoughts astute
Each more resolved to dream through time.
We must be bold to dream, be bold to dream, be bold to dream through time.

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from What Should I Say, released October 21, 2018
Music by Matt Keegan

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Elysian Fields Sydney, Australia

Elysian Fields is one of the world's rare electric viola da gamba bands. The sextet was founded by gambist, Jenny Eriksson along Matt Keegan, sax, and Matt McMahon, piano. We largely play original music and arrangements written by group members.

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