Song & Wind is Jakob Buchanan’s fourth major orchestral work, written for Aarhus Jazz Orchestra with Carsten Seyer-Hansen as conductor. This time in collaboration with the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir and Marilyn Mazur and with words by Iain S. Thomas. 

Participants:
Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
Jakob Buchanan, flugelhorn
Marilyn Mazur, percussion
Carsten Seyer-Hansen, conductor

In Song & Wind, the Copenhagen Boys Choir gives voice to Buchanan’s elegiac melodies, embraced and complemented by Aarhus Jazz Orchestra’s warm brass- and woodwind sounds. With the addition of Marilyn Mazur’s strong, personal and colourful percussion-paintings, Buchanan has shaped a unique musical encounter:

The boys’ choir sings about longing, doubt and loss. About pain and about time and eternity.  I have been inspired by the work of the South African poet, Iain S. Thomas´ and the thoughts and feelings that pop-up my mind – as a husband and a father who thinks back on a long life. 

Iain S. Thomas’ small existentialist poems put to a high degree into words, some of what is going on in my world of thought and in many of the discussions about life I have with my wife, Nanna. 

Together we have chosen the poems for Song & Wind. 

Nature is however, completely independent of man’s world of thought – it is just there. The music is written in the places where I live; in a landscape of soil and fields on Mols, just outside Aarhus, shaped by all the small hills and in the middle of the strong winds from the sea around us. It has also been created on our small farm house in Kornhult, Sweden – surrounded by the darkness of the pine forest, the moss and the bird life. 

Marilyn Mazur is invited into the music because, as the musical sorceress that she is, she can shape and accommodate everything in her playing – and thus create both co-play and counter-play in the music. 

Tracklist:

Part I:
1. Prelude,
2. Songs In The Air
3. Postlude

Part II:
The Stones Make Sand Slow

Part III:
If You Want To Hurt Someone

Part IV:
You Have Only Seen How I Begin

Part V:
Rain Falls