Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Great music

I was round at my mate Stu's for dinner on Saturday evening and he gave me an introduction to these guys. Its brilliant. The aim of the project was to bring to fruition the idea of making hymns accessible and known again.

I love how they came up with their name, they state - the name comes from a reference to page 116 in our copy of the magicians nephew. by C.S. Lewis. It is a poignant passage where Aslan begins to sing Narnia into creation out of a black void.

It starts, “In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction is was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it.”
~ C.S. Lewis


Brilliant, check out their website here

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