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"...an intensely moving meditation - in music, sound, words,
rhyme and prayer - on the act of memorial. At the centre was a live performance of medieval Josquin's lament for Ockeghem, Nymphes des Bois, recorded in atmospheric venues such as the Crossness Pumping Station... Layered over this, and with the music increasingly discordant, were spoken anecdotes about death, and being the person left behind. The effect, incredibly, was uplifting: an extraordinary mix of the celestial and the prosaic. There wa also catharsis and a sense of new beginnings, through the inclusion of children's voices and snippets of nursery rhymes. 'There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,' they cried gleefully. 'She's dead - of course.'" (The Guardian)
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