Wilted leaves, by Nigel Deane

Wilted leaves

by Nigel Deane

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	1.	Wilted leaves - studio recording 04:44	info	buy track
	2.	Wilted leaves - live in the Chung King Road Courtyard, 6/26/2023, for Dog Star Festival 10:10	info	buy track

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This piece is the first creative solo project I've finished since my dad passed away in October 2021, and is partially about my still-deepening connection to him. The use of the sounds of the mourning dove as a motif was initially inspired by his piece Mourning Dove Sonnet for solo vibraphone.

Ubiquitous as it is, the mourning dove song started to capture my closer attention whenever I heard it after I had begun working on this piece. I came to appreciate that I didn't necessarily find its melody to be mournful. Likewise, I don't consider this piece to be about grief. Grief was an element of my life while working on the piece, but for me, there's an equal part celebration of life and community, which I felt so strongly in the live performance of the piece at Automata, surrounded by friends that I love, and strangers with whom I had beautiful and vulnerable conversations after the piece ended.

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released August 3, 2023

track 1: all violin, viola, and cello tracks by Nigel Deane; field recording of mourning dove song by Tom Johnson (ML217221401); field recording of mourning dove flapping wings by Ava Molnar (ML467603931); mixed by Nigel Deane

track 2:
𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻: Violet, Pauline Lay, Lia Soorenian, Binh Tat, Yaya Vasquez-Lopez
𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗮: Alejandra Moreno Gonzalez, Patrick Behnke, Nicki Chen, Tanner Pfeiffer, Kris Rahamad
𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼: Derek Stein, Wells Leng, Andrew Loveland, Jude Tedaldi
𝗕𝗮𝘀𝘀: James Vitz-Wong, Matt Kline
Mixed by Nigel Deane

collage cover art by Bliss Parsons

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