Hollie McNish, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley
Release Date: 28 October 2016
Label: Mo Black / New Arts International
Packaging Type: Blu-Ray Packaging
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9789082394641
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Poetry versus Orchestra
Description
Following on from their hugely successful Proms concert conducted by Quincy Jones, the Metropole Orchestra proudly present a new recording, Poetry Versus Orchestra. This deluxe package features different textures and graphic images, a book of poetry along with the music and is a luxury blu-ray style format.
Long before she quit her day job and adopted the stage name Hollie Poetry, Hollie McNish was scribbling poems on whatever surface she could find. Aged 23, her partner urged her to start reading it out loud for other people. It took her a year of attending a poetry night in Covent Garden, London, to work up the courage to go on stage, but once she started there was no stopping her and soon she was attending open-mic nights up and down the country.
Now 32, McNish makes a living as a full-time poet, doing readings and organising workshops both in Cambridge, where she lives, and internationally. Her YouTube clips have had more than 4m views, and she has several high-profile fans including Tim Minchin and Benjamin Zephaniah, who has said he "can't take his ears off her".
Conducted by Jules Buckley, Hollie says of this recording:
"The poems on this album are some of those closest to my heart. It is one of the biggest honours to have them read, thought about and composed into music by what I consider to be one of the best and most approachable orchestras. I really hope you enjoy it."
The collaboration is a unique marriage between the highly talented poetry from Hollie, accompanied by the Metropole Orkest who describe themselves as: 'Playing jazz, pop, world, cabaret, film scores and folk, the Metropole Orkest have shared the stage with legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Brian Eno, Pat Metheny, Stan Getz, Bono and Steve Vai.'
The result is a fascinating collaboration - comparisons with hip hop artist (and friend) Kate Tempest are inevitable.
"This concert never stopped, surging ever forward and changing gears as smoothly as a sports car." ( The Arts Desk )
"Dutch-based jazz and pop ensemble Metropole Orchestra added ballast lush, percussive cadence, harmonious decoration and acrobatic string crescendos, while a series of star turns were tastefully deployed to breathe new life into the songs." ( The Telegraph )
Tracklisting
The Eric Ineke JazzXpress Feat. Tineke Postma
Various Artists
Duke Ellington
Clemens Gottwald
Ben Markley Big Band & Ari Hoenig
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor, Alois Muhlbacher
Van Baerle Trio
Trichotomy
Utrecht String Quartet, Ilona Timcenko
Trio Hermes/Ginevra Bassetti/ Francesca Giglio/Marianna Pulsoni
Simone Pierini
Reinhard Kluth
Ondrej Sindelar, Sergio Azzolini, Rosonanza Praga
Maria Umbert Kimura, Somerville College Choir; Will Dawes
Manuel Tomadin
Lilit Grigoryan, David Petersen
