The Planets, by Fresh Handmade Collective

The Planets

by Fresh Handmade Collective

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Fabia Love Simon E's Afro Celt work and that brought me here. This is gorgeous. One of my fave albums for working, chilling, staring into space.... Favorite track: Starry Eyed.

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1.	Slow Train to Swanage 09:08	buy track
2.	Hornby's Dream 05:29	buy track
3.	Wood Warbler 00:53	buy track
4.	Saturnalia Part 1 05:25	buy track
5.	Saturnalia Part 2 02:25	buy track
6.	Thrush Nightingale 01:04	buy track
7.	Mystic Mark 06:23	buy track
8.	Reach Out Interlude (Glastonbury Dawn Chorus) 03:35	buy track
9.	Bossa Super Nova 06:06	buy track
10.	Uranus 04:13	buy track
11.	Candor Chasmata 02:59	buy track
12.	Starry Eyed Intro 02:19	buy track
13.	Starry Eyed 10:24	buy track
14.	Apastron 06:00	buy track
15.	Venus 09:33	buy track
16.	Palm Jam 07:41	buy track
17.	Elysium Planitia 02:52	buy track
18.	Great Snipe, Jack Snipe and Azure Winged Magpie 01:21	buy track
19.	After The Eclipse 05:59	buy track
20.	After The Eclipse Part 2 02:18	buy track
21.	Polar Drift 08:45	buy track
22.	Would The Warbler? 03:21	buy track
23.	Brownsea Lagoon 01:13	buy track
24.	Evening Star 05:18	buy track
25.	Thrush Nightingale 00:49	buy track
26.	Reach Out 14:54	buy track
27.	Mercury in Retrograde 07:30	buy track
28.	Brownsea Island Bells Intro 02:23	buy track
29.	Brownsea Island Bells 04:42	buy track

about

Immerse yourself in a celestial musical landscape gathering momentum throughout the quiet Dorset night. Contemplative but deeply restorative, allow these sweeping peals, layered with soft birdsong and the lullaby of distant church bells, to send you skywards.

"The Planets... I'm not sure how it feels to be asked to make music to carry folk from the past to the future through the present, daunting I suspect. To come back with such a sensitive treatment is very impressive. At times the sounds are gently supportive and at others completely inspiring." - Mark Constantine

"I was out stargazing on a remote hill in Dorset, while Mark was recording birdsong on Brownsea Island lagoon, both of us watching the rare astronomical phenomena; the planets in alignment and visible to the naked eye... And so, by synchronicity, the idea The Planets treatment came into orbit." - Simon Emmerson

credits

released July 10, 2020

Musicians:
Simon Emmerson (guitars and cittern), Richard Evans (guitars, mandolin, flute, synths, programming, bass Part 1; Tracks 4,5,7,10,15, Part 3; Track 14), Ali Friend (bass Part 1; Tracks 1,2,8,9, Part 2; Track 1, Part 3; Tracks 4,7,9,11), Ged Lynch (drums and percussion), Simon Massey (drum programming Part 3; Track 12), Barney Morse-Brown (cello), Simon Richmond (piano, synths, glockenspiel, programming), Chris Taylor (bass Part 1; Track 13).

Vocals: Rob Gallagher (Part 3; Track 7), Locks (Part 3; Track 12), Jackie Oates (Part 1; Track 9 & Part 3; Track 9), Angie Pollock (Part 3; Track 11).

Backing Vocals: Valerie Etienne, Richard Evans, Paul Jackson Fredericks, Sheema Mukherjee, Angie Pollock and Simon Richmond.

Orchestral Arrangements: Simon Hale and John Metcalfe

Choir: London Voices

Engineers: Simon Emmerson, Richard Evans, Olga Fitzroy, Mo Hausier, Mark Jones, Simon Richmond.

Mixed by Simon Massey.

All bird samples recorded by The Sound Approach:
Mark Constantine, Magnus Robb, Arnoud van den Burg.

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