Requiem for a Pink Moon

An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake (1948-74)

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A tribute to one of the greatest singer/songwriters of the past 50 years, a requiem to Nick Drake (1948-74), composed by Joel Frederiksen. Drake´s visionary songs speak to the human condition with titles such as “Which will you go for?”, “From the morning”, and “Time has told me”. Under fine melodic lines is a rhythmically driving guitar part which Frederiksen has orchestrated for Renaissance instruments. Sections of the plainsong Requiem Mass frame the album, which interweaves Drake’s songs seamlessly with masterworks from the Renaissance by composers such as John Dowland or Thomas Campion, arranged and adapted by Joel Frederiksen, to form one piece connecting Nick’s art to his countrymen 400 years earlier.

Performers: Joel Frederiksen – Bass, Lute, Direction / Timothy Leigh Evans – Tenor / Domen Marincic – Viola da Gamba / Axel Wolf – Theorbo