For Your Consideration
For your Grammy® voting consideration, Dathanna: Hues and Shades for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble on Orchid Classics Label
About Dathanna: Hues and Shades
We began exploring this album in late 2019 when, in 2020, we were hit by the pandemic and forced to stop all of our rehearsals and recording. As the world seemingly went silent so did our music making. To say that this album is an evolution is an understatement. It has been a beautiful and, at times, frustrating journey that began as a dream to celebrate and revel in beauty, timbre and the sublime fusion of two distinct tonal textures and became so much more - an invocation of strength, perseverance and triumph.
Dathanna, the Irish word for ‘colour,’ centres timbral hues and shades, colours of sound, phrasing, texture and virtuosity through musical expression. We have worked to present an album of intimate chamber works that showcase these tonal elements and ideas. A part of those colour elements is the breath, choreography of the fingers, shifting pedals, creaking chairs and the feeling of being enveloped by the sound of pedal harp and clarinet. This album has been recorded with these elements in mind to present a soundscape reminiscent of the warmth and setting of 19th century salon music concerts. It is a celebration of ambience, pulchritudinous fellowship and the sharing in the vulnerability and unspoken reverence of chamber music.
An album of tonal virtuosity and curiosity, Dathanna: Hues & Shades is a foray into the tonal beauty and the unique pairing of clarinet and harp.
Thank you for your support and for your considered listening!
Videos
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Production Credits
Berginald Rash & Fiona Gryson - Producers
Aidan McGovern - Recording & Mixing Engineer
Lee Fletcher - Mastering Engineer
Niall Shortall - Studio Maintenance Engineer
Ishmael Claxton - Photographer
Niamh Barry - Photographer
Nel Licznerska - Photo Assistant & Set Design
Anabel Ortega (Purple MakeUp) - Make-Up Artist
Maria Alvarez (The Killer Barber) - Hair Stylist for Fiona Gryson
Samuel 'Caesar' Omovbude and Pascal Ifeanyi Okoh of Mighty Caesar Salon 132 Parnell St, Dublin 1, Ireland - Hair Stylists for Berginald Rash
Recorded between 2019-2023 at The Academy of Sound 10 New Bride Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
Photographs taken at 12 Henrietta St, Dublin 1, Ireland and Cornstown House, Ashbourne, Co. Dublin, Ireland