Pook: DESH

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Desh is an exploration of identity, of a child born of Bangladeshi parents in the UK rediscovering his roots. Reading reviews of the work’s staging make one bitterly regret not having seen it... — The Arts Desk, 12th January 2013 More…

Release Date: 3rd Dec 2012
Catalogue No: PM001
Label: Pook Music
Length: 52 minutes

Natacha Atlas, Lalon Shah, Jocelyn Pook: Desh

Work length52:58

$13.00

$16.85

Natacha Atlas, Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Sohini Alam, Jeremy Schonfield, Tanja Tzarovska, Leesa Gazi, Labik Kamal, Sophie Harris, Dragan Aleksic
Bulgarian Orchestra

Hallelujah

Track length4:35

$1.00

$1.30

Metallic Sonata

Track length7:06

$2.00

$2.60

Honey Bee Story

Track length8:14

$2.00

$2.60

Remembering Noor

Track length6:48

$1.00

$1.30

Teenage Years

Track length3:51

$1.00

$1.30

Ave Maria

Track length5:22

$1.00

$1.30

Ami Opar

Track length3:16

$1.00

$1.30

Bleeding Soles

Track length10:24

$3.00

$3.85

Storm Engine

Track length3:22

$1.00

$1.30

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Famed for her film score to Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Jocelyn Pook is a highly versatile composer who has written extensively for film, television, the theatre and the concert hall.

Pook has worked with some of the world’s leading directors, musicians, artists and arts institutions including Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, the Royal Opera House, BBC Proms, Andrew Motion, Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack and Laurie Anderson.

DESH was composed to accompany Akram Khan’s theatre work of the same name. For the score, Jocelyn Pook combined field recordings she made in Bangladesh (Khan’s homeland) with hymns, chants and the rhythm of urban chaos. The music translates into sound the sights, energy and colour Pook experienced into fragile pieces scored for chamber ensemble as well as pieces harnessing the power of full orchestra. Singers from around the world complete the score Debra Caine of the Times called, “haunting and magical, excited and angry.”

Pook is currently writing a large-scale symphonic work commissioned by and to be premiered by the BBC Concert Orchestra on Monday 3 December at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Album Re-Mastered by the Composer.

Includes previously unreleased re-mixed and extended versions of Metallic Sonata and Bleeding Soles.

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12th January 2013

Desh is an exploration of identity, of a child born of Bangladeshi parents in the UK rediscovering his roots. Reading reviews of the work’s staging make one bitterly regret not having seen it live. Pook’s music does succeed on its own terms...It all works because Pook avoids writing bland, Eastern-sounding pastiche. Her own voice always shines through. Worth investigating even if you haven’t seen Desh in a theatrical setting.

Pook: DESH

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