Title: A Percussionist's Songbook Artist: Joby Burgess Label: Signum Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 635212072226 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-04-18 Number of Discs: 1
"Percussionist extraordinaire Joby Burgess" returns with his fifth album on Signum Records, "A Percussionist's Songbook" - a collection of specially commissioned 'songs without words' from John Metcalfe, Tunde Jegede, Dario Marianelli, Yazz Ahmed, Graham Fitkin, Dobrinka Tabakova and Gabriel Prokofiev. Scored for an arsenal of pitched percussion and electronics the songbook is inspired by texts ranging from the poetry of Robert Graves and Birago Diop to novels by Michael Ondaatje and Isaac Asimov; American philosopher Michael Sandel, songwriter Peter Gabriel, United Nation population growth statistics and Saudi Arabian folk tales.
Tracks: 1.1 Love Without Hope 1.2 Ancestors Are Within 1.3 Unequal 1.4 Throw Your Pumpkin (; Pick Me Up) 1.5 Come Sweet Death 1.6 Species 1.7 Desert Swimmers 1.8 Dr Calvin Remembers 1.9 Take Me Home
