Amores Pasados

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Potter and Friman especially are old hands at category-crunching, and, as ever, make it work through the integrity of their performances, as true to themselves as to the music, supported by lovely... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2015
Catalogue No: 4811555
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 46 minutes

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John Paul Jones: Amores Pasados

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Al Son De Los Arroyuelos

Track length5:05

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No Dormía

Track length5:19

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So Ell Encina

Track length4:32

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Warlock: Sleep

Work length2:23

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Campion: Follow thy fair sun

Work length3:29

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Campion: Oft Have I Sighed

Work length3:30

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Picforth: In Nomine

Work length2:30

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Campion: The cypress curtain of the night

Work length3:14

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Campion: Follow thy fair sun

Work length3:37

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Moeran: Oh fair enough are sky and plain

Work length2:18

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Campion: The cypress curtain of the night

Work length3:35

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Picforth: In Nomine

Work length2:17

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Sting: Bury me deep in the greenwood

Work length4:00

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Recorded: 2014-11-29
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

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For this innovative attempt to bridge the gap between art song and pop song, John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), Sting and Genesis-keyboardist Tony Banks were commissioned to write new lute songs, and these are premiered on 'Amores Pasados' alongside music by English composers ranging from Thomas Campion to Peter Warlock.

"Asking a rock music composer to set existing poetry within a genre we knew well meant that we singers wouldn't need to pretend to be pop singers - we were still 'interpreting' a text in a way that we're familiar with", writes John Potter in the liner notes. Thus Tony Banks set 17th century poems by Thomas Campion (whose songs can also be heard here) and John Paul Jones composed the album's title work, a dark-hued trio of songs - "Al Son de los Arroyuelos," "No Dormía" and "So ell Encina" - set to poems from three great ages of Spanish literature.

Sting's "Bury me deep in the Greenwood" was originally intended for the film 'Robin Hood', and incorporates his own lyrics. The song's sound and sensibility obviously "come from a composer who performs John Dowland", as Potter notes. The album's unconventional meeting of the old and the new was rounded off with songs by 20th century composers E J Moeran and Peter Warlock as well as the only piece known from the (almost anonymous) 16th century renaissance musician Picforth.

John Potter - an ECM veteran from his decades as a tenor with the Hilliard Ensemble and, more recently, with his Dowland Project recordings - arranged the songs with lutenists Ariel Abramovich and Jacob Heringman. Adding her pure voice and Hardanger fiddle to the recording session at Oslo's Rainbow Studio (in November 2014) was Anna Maria Friman of Trio Mediaeval.

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November 2015

Potter and Friman especially are old hands at category-crunching, and, as ever, make it work through the integrity of their performances, as true to themselves as to the music, supported by lovely playing from the lutenists.

2nd July 2015

John Potter has been a Genesis fan since the 1970s, and there’s an audible dose of mutual fandom at the heart of this moody collection of lute songs old and new, plus the worthy breakdown of distinctions between “art song” and “pop song”... Potter sings with a straight, breathy voice, determined not to sound too classical.

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