Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band All This This Here
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Barry Guy – bass and director ( GB )
Savina Yannatou - voice (GR)
Agusti Fernandez – piano ( ESP )
Ben Dwyer – guitar ( IR )
Percy Pursglove – trumpet ( GB)
Maya Homburger – violin ( CH )
Fanny Paccoud - viola (FR)
Marc Unternährer – tuba ( CH )
Torben Snekkestad – soprano sax / tenor ( NOR )
Michael Niesemann – alto sax / oboe / oboe d’amore ( D )
Per Texas Johansson – tenor sax / clarinet ( S )
Julius Gabriel - baritone sax / soprano ( D )
Lucas Niggli – percussion (CH)
Ramon Lopez – percussion (ESP)
The title and text drawn from Samuel Beckett's last poem and meditation on language, "what is the word" and also his "Brief Dream", plus a poem from Barra O Seaghdha and two 18th century Edo Haikus, Barry Guy's exquisite work about life in transit through eight movements is performed with a stellar ensemble including Agusti Fernandez, Maya Homburg, Lucas Niggli, Percuy Pursgolve, &c.