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Facta est deserta

by Shards

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Facta Est Deserta is the new single from Shards, the London-based vocal group led by singer and composer Kieran Brunt.

“This is a response to the beautiful choral work, ‘Civitas Sancti Tui’, written by William Byrd, who felt persecuted as a Catholic under Elizabeth I's early rule. The words are heartbreaking:

The city of thy sanctuary is become a wilderness,
Sion is made a Wilderness,
Jerusalem is desolate.

I took fragments from the piece meditated upon them, using fractured, autotuned layers of my own voice and distorted synths. The idea was to paint a picture of a distant, broken landscape.”

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released July 26, 2023
Composed by Kieran Brunt
Performed by Kieran Brunt and Hamish McLaren
Published by Decca Publishing
Recorded, mixed and produced by Kieran Brunt
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Design by Robert Raths

℗© 2023 Erased Tapes Records Ltd. All rights reserved. All tapes erased. Made in the EU. LC 15952 ERATP163DS01

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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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