Small Holes in the Silence, by Norman Meehan

Small Holes in the Silence

by Norman Meehan

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1.	High Country Weather 01:57	lyrics	buy track
James K. Baxter
2.	Rain 02:24	lyrics	buy track
Hone Tuwhare
3.	Erewhon 05:04	lyrics	buy track
Bill Manhire
4.	Ballad of the Hurting Girl 04:32	lyrics	buy track
Bill Manhire
5.	Blue Rain 02:59	lyrics	buy track
Alistair Campbell
6.	Death of a Poet 03:39	lyrics	buy track
Bill Manhire
7.	Dreams, Yellow Lions 04:51	lyrics	buy track
Alistair Campbell
8.	Words and Roses 04:14	lyrics	buy track
Alistair Campbell
9.	Warehouse Curtains 06:31	lyrics	buy track
Bill Manhire
10.	Frost 07:12	lyrics	buy track
Eileen Duggan
11.	To Elespie, Ian & their Holy Whanau 01:49	lyrics	buy track
Hone Tuwhare
12.	Yellow Room 04:59	lyrics	buy track
David Mitchell

about

What I like most about Norman Meehan’s settings on this album is that words and music are equal participants, and that the final effect feels both surprising and inevitable. The music doesn’t overpower the words; but neither does it defer to them.

Maybe this has something to do with the jazz background that Norman, Hayden, and Hannah share. The collaborative give-and-take of live performance means that hierarchies are missing; nothing is prescribed, and no single element is given preference.

Bill Manhire, 2015

credits

released October 20, 2015

Norman Meehan (piano)
Hannah Griffin (voice)
Hayden Chisholm (saxophone)

Music composed by Norman Meehan © 2015
Recorded by Thomas Voyce in the Adam Concert Room, The New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington
Mixed and mastered by Steve Garden in The Garden Shed, Auckland
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Printing by Studio Q