Artist: The Dowland Project, John Potter
Album: Night Sessions
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2013/2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 01:12:29
Total Tracks: 17
Total Size: 662 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Stephen Stubbs – First descent (01:17)
1-02. John Potter – Menino Jesus a Lappa (07:07)
1-03. Stephen Stubbs – Recercar (Joan Ambrosio Dalza) (01:13)
1-04. John Potter – Can vei la lauzeta mover (06:51)
1-05. The Dowland Project – First triage (Bernart de Ventadorn) (06:58)
1-06. John Potter – Man in the moon (07:30)
1-07. John Potter – Corpus Christi (02:54)
1-08. John Potter – Whistling in the dark (05:24)
1-09. John Potter – Swart mekerd smethes (05:03)
1-10. John Potter – Fumeux fume (Solage) (03:23)
1-11. John Potter – Hortus ignotus (04:11)
1-12. John Potter – Mystery play (03:40)
1-13. John Potter – I sing of a maiden (03:57)
1-14. John Potter – Theoleptus 22 (05:53)
1-15. Stephen Stubbs – Second descent (00:30)
1-16. The Dowland Project – Second triage (05:23)
1-17. Stephen Stubbs – Prelude (01:06)

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From its inception, John Potter’s Dowland Project has drawn upon different musical traditions including those of ‘early music’ and improvisation. These “Night Sessions” emphasize the Project’s improvisational flexibility and resourcefulness, as the musicians create new music in the moment, sometimes with medieval poetry as inspirational reference and guide. There are also a number of ‘daytime’ pieces worked up, Potter notes, from small amounts of notation: ‘Menino Jesus à Lapa’ is based on Portuguese pilgrim song fragments and ‘Theoleptus 22’ built around a Byzantine chant. Lute fantasias are taken from Dalza’s Intabolatura de Lauto (Venice, 1508) and Attaignant’s Tres breve et familiere introduction…a jouer toutes chansons (Paris, 1529). The oldest compositions are ‘Can vei la lauzeta mover’ – a love song by the 12th century troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn, and ‘Fumeux fume’ by the 14thcentury avant-gardist Solage. Two incarnations of the Dowland Project are heard here, the original band with Potter, Stephen Stubbs and John Surman joined by Barry Guy and Maya Homburger, and the revised line-up with Milos Valent on violin and viola.