## Bis dat - Artist(s): [[Spire]] - Release Year: [[2022]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[classical]], [[electronic]], [[experimental]] - [Bandcamp Link](https://theeternalchord.bandcamp.com/album/bis-dat) Notes: #album #👍 %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | %% ## Bandcamp Copy > After 'Mutatis mutandis' [Spire 7.1, 2020], 'Bis dat', meaning 'Give more’, features 8 exclusive new compositions, using source material from 'Semper Liber', the album from The Eternal Chord collective of musicians (or not…)… Immersive and compelling, challenging and seductive, 'Bis dat' expands the organ repertoire into new territory, earthly and unearthly, past and present. > > Zachary Paul’s violin and electronics plunge into the deep and he reimagines a drowned world, the spire still resplendent as creatures take up their new home; Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, SIGE) continues her voice explorations and takes us to the skies, seeking the thermals - beyond the planets, even - while BJNilsen rams home the power of the beast (the organ was above all an instrument of clerical authority), a blistering piece using organ samples from Henry Willis’s Union Chapel organ in London. Alcibiades (Jay Glass Dubs & venoztks) combine Balkanology with organ samples to create a haunting, swirling miasmic oracle, and Yen-Ting Hsu guides us to gentler pastures with ’Summer whisper’. But danger lurks therein - we know what’s coming and there are always storms close by - and Rhodri Davies reminds us you can’t tame the beast, merely accompany and marvel. His unaccompanied harp fought the sounds of building reconstruction at his location - we don’t...  more