Byrd Song, by Shards

Byrd Song

by Shards

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Micro Landscape of a Bathroom Sink Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. The harmonics, the emotions. Such a wonderful interplay between vocals and electronics.

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1.	Facta est deserta 04:15	lyrics	buy track
Civitas sancti... ...facta est deserta... ...desolata est... ...Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem...
2.	Domine Deus 01:54	lyrics	buy track
Domine Deus, agnus dei, filius patris Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
3.	Kyrie 00:52	info	buy track
4.	Sanctus 02:32	lyrics	buy track
Sanctus, sanctus! Dominus, dominus! Gloria tua, gloria! Sanctus!
5.	Agnus Dei 03:38	lyrics	buy track
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Miserere nobis Agnus Dei,qui tollis peccata mundi, Donna nobis pacem
6.	Sacerdotes (Lost Cadence) 02:39	lyrics	buy track
Sacerdotes Domini Incensum et panes offerunt Deo Et ideo sancti erunt Deo suo et non polluent nomen eius. Alleluia
7.	Ave Verum 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Ave verum corpus, Natum de Maria Virgine Vere passum, immolatum In cruce pro homine Cuius latus perforatum Unda fluxit sanguine Esto nobis prægustatum In mortis examine
8.	Amen, amen, amen... 06:05	lyrics	buy track
Amen, amen, amen...

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Byrd Song consists of eight reimagined works by Shards and their de facto leader Kieran Brunt.

To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the English composer in 2023, the broadcaster Elizabeth Alker commissioned a series of recordings and reworks of Byrd for a radio special on her BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified show. Kieran Brunt, who was in the midst of writing the new Shards album, contributed Facta est deserta, taking fragments from an original piece, adding autotune and distorted synths, painting a picture of a distant, broken landscape.

After finishing the commission, Brunt found himself distracted and followed his curiosity and delved deeper into Byrd’s compositions, which have long played as an inspiration for him as a composer. Expanding further on this, Brunt says “I’ve been singing Byrd’s music since I was at school, and sang a lot while studying and singing in my college chapel choir, which I did daily for three years. His music has endured for centuries because of its beauty, complexity and intense emotion“.

William Byrd was a devout Catholic in a Protestant England, much of his work was composed illegally at the time and performed in secret. “There’s a real sense of every note and word of text having extreme significance” he adds.

Having the opportunity to bring new life to Byrd’s music through his own renditions and with the use of electronics, Brunt says “it has been so enjoyable to return to his music and reconnect with it with the tools I now use for my own compositions. I hope that by reimagining it with new timbres and the precision of effects like autotune I can illuminate certain details and shed a new light on its intricacies”.

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released April 19, 2024

Composer: Kieran Brunt, William Byrd
Publisher: Decca Publishing
Producer: Kieran Brunt
Executive Producer: Robert Raths
Recording Engineer: Kieran Brunt
Mixing Engineer: Kieran Brunt
Mastering Engineer: Valgeir Sigurðsson
Artwork: Robert Raths

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Shards London, UK

Shards is the vocal-led project of singer, composer and producer Kieran Brunt.

Debut album Find Sound is intended to be read as a collection of short, sonic paintings, with each burst of colour adding to an overall picture of the emotional confusion of early adulthood: the uncertainty, the excitement, the terror and the relief. ... more

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