Lola Perrin

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By Peculiar Grace

By Peculiar Grace and other loves (2CD) (2010)
Music by Lola Perrin
Photography by Norman Miller

Disc One
Ten pieces selected as favourites by friends and fans of Lola Perrin from her recent works are brought together in this one CD. All have been composed between 2008 and 2010.
Tracks 01, 05, 06, 07 were composed from writings by Hanif Kureishi.
Tracks 02, 03, 04 were composed from words Lola collected when she interviewed 190 anonymous Londoners about their cultural roots and family histories for a Design Museum commission.
Tracks 08 and 10 are variations from Piano Suite VI: Theory of K.
Track 09 was composed from Phil Maxwell and Hazuan Hashim's East End I film featuring the microcosm of global society that is London's East End.

01 Karim (15.23)
02 First Memory (4.06)
03 The Sea of Names (8.08)
04 Across one hundred years (1.48)
05 Long Ago Yesterday (5.01)
06 The Dogs (5.05)
07 By Peculiar Grace (6.50)
08 Texture 1 (4.51)
09 Frailty (7.17)
10 Texture 2 (4.30)

Disc Two
Piano Suite VIII ON THE GRADIENT ROAD
12 compositions that form a portrait of a friend and fellow musician as he continues his journey along the road after his sudden passing, aged 43

01 Crossing the water (1.03)
02 In the time of peace (2.07)
03 The Departure (2.56)
04 The Ritual (3.27)
05 The Arrival (2.06)
06 Untitled (4.02)
07 Surrender 1 (2.07)
08 The Advance 1 (3.41)
09 Water (1.02)
10 The Advance 2 (3.04)
11 Surrender 2 (2.55)
12 On the gradient road (2.47)

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Fragile Light cover

FRAGILE LIGHT (75 mins)

For details of Lola Perrin's CD 'Fragile Light : works for solo piano and for six pianos' please visit World Quarter Music.

Fragile Light is now widely available from most retailers.

01 – 07 Piano Suite IV Music from Fragile Light Spaces

1 Newark Airport 1
2 Newark Airport 2
3 Newark Airport 3
4 Newark Airport 4
5 Newark Airport 5
6 Newark Airport 6
7 Cloud Sky Fade
08 To a wild rose (Edward MacDowell arr. Lola Perrin)
09 – 15 Piano Suite I Early One Sunday Morning
Early One Sunday Morning I
Early One Sunday Morning II
Early One Sunday Morning III
Early One Sunday Morning IV
Early One Sunday Morning V
Early One Sunday Morning VI
Early One Sunday Morning VII
16 Barcelona for 6 pianos
17 – 23 Piano Suite III Perpetual Motion

1 Whole numbers
2 Perpetual motion
3 Unravelling
4 Pulse
5 Island
6 Ripple
7 Butterflies

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Lola Perrin is an independent artist and gratefully acknowledges the following Sponsors who have supported her recording costs:


Walter Braunsteiner
Julian Diggle www.jazzmonk.co.uk
Lidewy Isings
Roland Perrin www.rolandperrin.com
and two anonymous donors