OCEAN: Songs for the Night Sea Journey

Celtic, symphonic, and electronic textures merge in Cutting’s expansive sound canvases for Ocean. Heavenly women’s vocals, harps, pipes, fiddle, accordion, and other traditional instruments fuse with keyboards, bass, drums, and electric guitar for a song cycle that moves from lush, ethereal soundscapes to energizing Irish tune sets and majestic artsong, evoking key stages in the human journey.

Digging deep into archival sources for inspiration, Cutting researched obscure lyrics from the Irish oral tradition, Latin phrases from medieval alchemical texts, and glorious forgotten melodies from the manuscripts of turn-of-the-century folk music collectors.

Includes performances from the following artists: Grace Griffith, Lisa Moscatiello, Maddy Prior, Tony Cuffe, Sue Richards and Zan McLeod.