“I can’t wait for people to hear these songs, new and familiar, all with strings. In April 2023 Heavenly Bodies was ranked 1485 on popular streaming platform Twitch based on 18 thousand hours watched. This recording however is of a completely new arrangement, recorded in the church with the glorious LCO. The third and final track of the EP is a re-interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me to the End of Love, which was originally commissioned by the Contemporary Art Museum of Montréal for the Cohen exhibition ‘A Crack in Everything’ that has toured the museums of the world. It was recorded with Peter Broderick in his Berlin apartment in 2013 - “we waited a long while but now feels the perfect time to release it”, Douglas states. The second track is a previously unheard song that Douglas wrote way back in 2012 whilst he was still at university, a song personifying the violin itself. ![]() The audio recording of the title track sits alongside two other string-supported vocal pieces that make up the EP. We set up pools of light in four areas so he could seamlessly move between them.We shot using a Kodak Super 16mm film stock which picked up beautiful images both in these pools of light and the darker areas outside of them”, Simon explains the making of process. The one-take journey of our camera sees Douglas move around within the church in one continuous shot. “I really wanted to create a feeling that matched the ‘haunting' and raw feeling of Heavenly Bodies. The video was directed by award-winning documentary film maker Simon Lane who previously worked with the English indie folk trio Daughter and made a short doc about Bob Marley. Released digitally on December 11, the 3-track EP features the London Contemporary Orchestra accompanying Dare’s charismatic voice on both the title track and a mesmerising rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me to the End of Love, whilst the third piece sees a duet with the American composer and fellow Erased Tapes artist Peter Broderick.Īt the beginning of September 2020, between lockdowns, Douglas Dare came together with a string quartet of players from the London Contemporary Orchestra to record an audio- visual performance in the beautiful St John of Jerusalem Church in Hackney, London. Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove ![]() Courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn Evening Dresses by Rodarte (2011), on view in 'Heavenly Bodies' at the Met Fifth Avenue, Robert Lehman Wing. We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us aboveĭance me to the children who are asking to be bornĭance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn Show me slowly what I only know the limits ofĭance me to the wedding now, dance me on and onĭance me very tenderly and dance me very long Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to your beauty with a burning violinĭance me through the panic til I'm gathered safely in
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