This premiere recording of master percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie’s new international ensemble offers a programme of fourteen improvised pieces that push the boundaries of spontaneous music-making. The group brings together musical traditions from four varied cultures (Scotland, Serbia, the United States and Denmark) but with a common goal: to create spontaneous music of great beauty and power which utilises the basic formal elements of musical composition – melody, harmony, rhythm and form.

Dame Evelyn Glennie is the first person in history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, performing worldwide with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. She fondly recalls having played the first percussion concerto in the history of the BBC Proms in 1992, which paved the way for orchestras around the world to feature percussion concertos. She had the honour of a leading role in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. To this day, Evelyn continues to invest in realising her vision – to Teach the World to Listen – while looking to open a centre that embodies her mission: ‘to improve communication and social cohesion by encouraging everyone to discover new ways of listening. We want to inspire, to create, to engage and to empower’.

Tracklisting:
1. Steel-Ribbed Dance
2. The Calling
3. Grotesque Fantasy
4. Walk of Intensity
5. Iron Stars
6. Flutter Gaze
7. Silver Shore
8. The Wake
9. Unseen Fires
10. Crystal Splash
11. Breath of Validation
12. Black Box Thinking
13. Scissor Shower
14. Rusty Locks