Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra release title track of The Unfolding

Hannah Peel goes on to explain, “The Unfolding is a yearning, a reaching for love, to be part of something. One of the great aspects of music is that when you can’t find the language to communicate a feeling – a deep feeling, one that not only echoes the ghosts of your past, but also dreams and futures – music allows you to tell a story, and let that story be spoken and told by others.

 From collaborating with the Paraorchestra, to the artwork with Jonathan Barnbook which in turn inspired this visual art by the director Stefan Goodchild, the shapes and forms of the original music have taken on new identities. There’s a sense of deep rooted humanity – that our time here on earth is short and we will never fully hear the rocks sing, as they shift over millennia.”

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The Unfolding is an extraordinary eight-part collaboration between Mercury and Emmy nominated Northern Irish composer Hannah Peel and Bristol’s Paraorchestra, recorded in precious morsels of time around the global pandemic. There are pieces of music that seek to tell us deeper stories. Others harness the talents of the players at their disposal in adventurous ways. Then there are the rare, generous works that make us think back to our roots as human beings and to our shared beginnings in the universe, that lift us in their melodies, rhythms and textures, that carry us with them. The Unfolding is all of these things.

The Unfolding also explores Paraorchestra’s progressive idea of what an orchestra should be, mixing analogue, digital and assistive instruments with a unique ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians to make magic happen.

The Unfolding by Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra is released on 1 April 2022 on Real World Records and is available to pre-order on CD, double vinyl, and double vinyl Dinked Edition now. Artwork is by Barnbrook.