Constellations by Edward Givens

That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
- Khalil Gibran

For this album, each piece is based on a "musical asterism" - my own subjective impression of a grouping of stars, transcribed as a melodic fragment or motive.
There is nothing scientific about this. Tomorrow night I could look up at the same places in the sky and hear new celestial melodies, but I would be fine with that, because my relationship to the stars is always changing and every night they can sing me a different song.

Once I gather these motives, these fragments of the night sky, I fashion them into my compositions.
Sometimes they form the basis of the entire piece - Beethoven's 5th style - where you hear the same motif repeated in myriad variations up and down the scale.
Other times they form the backdrop for my own melodic musings, or create a nocturnal tableau of sorts, a setting for a story without words.

This what we have done for as long as we have looked up at the night sky. We project our own world onto the glittering shapes we see in the darkness of space, and spin tales of what we heard and saw while our spirits traveled there.

- Edward Givens

Scintillating rhythmic grooves, calm minimalist introspection and future primitive invocations. Imaginative, mystical and life affirming music for your daily soundtrack.
Concept albums in various styles: Neo-classical, Ambient, Neo-medieval,
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