Buddhist Rain, by Norman Meehan

Buddhist Rain

by Norman Meehan

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1.	Across the Water 01:49	buy track
2.	The Oreti River 04:27	buy track
3.	Poem 03:50	buy track
4.	My Sunshine 04:18	buy track
5.	Pacific Raft 03:31	buy track
6.	The Voyage 03:53	buy track
7.	To Begin 02:24	buy track
8.	Song 03:21	buy track
9.	The Occupation Against Time 05:05	buy track
10.	The Proof 03:55	buy track
11.	Garden Gate 03:36	buy track
12.	The River 03:07	buy track
13.	Buddhist Rain 06:23	buy track

about

Having set, performed and recorded some poems by e. e. cummings, I was interested in working with material closer to home. A friend gave me a pile of New Zealand poetry books, and as much as I enjoyed them, the poems didn’t really spark musical ideas for me until I started reading Bill Manhire’s “Collected Poems”.

The composition process first involved reading the poems to get a feeling for them ‘as themselves’, but all the while keeping an eye open for ones that were musically resonant. I’m not sure what that is exactly, but sometimes they were evocative in ways that music can be evocative – I think “Song” was like that – or else there was something about the meaning of the verse or the way the lines scanned that made me feel they’d work well as songs.

Norman Meehan, 2010

credits

released September 23, 2010

Hannah Griffin (voice)
Colin Hemmingsen (reeds)
Norman Meehan (piano)
Bill Manhire (words)

Produced by Keith Hill and Norman Meehan
Recorded by Neil Maddever for Sounds Unlimited, Wellington
Mixed by Steve Garden and Norman Meehan at Garden Shed
Music Studio, Auckland
Design by UnkleFranc

This project was made possible with support from the New Zealand School of Music

All compositions © Norman Meehan and Bill Manhire, 2010

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