Award-winning clarinettist and composer Arun Ghosh presents a Spiritual Jazz reimagining of St. Francis of Assisi’s mystical prayer, The Canticle of the Sun. Performed by a contemporary eight-piece ensemble, this is life-affirming new music, in praise of nature and the Universe.
Inspired by a beautiful book picked up in a second-hand book shop, Arun Ghosh takes Umbrian dialect from 1224 and reimagines it through spiritual music from across the world, harnessing the intensely evocative sounds of qawwali, meditative mantras, Ethiopian Mezmur, Gregorian chants and spiritual jazz to create a transcendental sound world, which is a powerful and gentle reminder that humanity is but one part of an ecosystem
Irini Arabatzi voice
Seaming To voice
Arun Ghosh clarinet, keyboards, guitar
Mieko Shimizu keyboards, harmonium, vocals
Camilla George alto saxophone
Ruth Goller electric bass
Davide Mantovani double bass
Sarathy Korwar drums, percussion
Produced by Sound UK
Co-commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival