NUNS SKATING
Artist: Simeon Lumgair (featuring Queen of Opera)
Single title: Nuns Skating
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Christmas/ Alternative
Release date: December 18th 2022
Introducing Nuns Skating, a collaboration with The Queen of Opera. This piece is based on the award-winning poem "Nuns Skating" by Ann Drysdale, which tells some of the Christmas story through the wonders and mysteries that surround the nuns.
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room
Because their spirits can escape beyond
The place that holds them in respectful gloom
To seek the Lord beside the frozen pond.
There He will make their laughter into bells
And turn their breath to incense. He will show
Shadows of magi on the distant hills
And flights of angels shining in the snow.
He will make rushes sing and grasses dance
To the intrusive music of their chatter,
Whispering in their ears that, just this once,
They too can walk as He did, on the water.
Oh, may the year to come be full of these.
Small serendipitous epiphanies.
The poem won second Prize winner, National Poetry Competition, 2001
Published in Backwork, Peterloo Poets, 2002
PAPERBACK FABLES OPUS
Artist: Simeon Lumgair (featuring Queen of Opera)
Album title: Paperback Fables Opus
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative
Release date: September 2nd 2022
Introducing our new album Paperback Fables Opus by Simeon Lumgair featuring Queen of Opera. This is a wondrous collaboration with the majestic voice of D’Andrea Pelletier - The Queen of Opera, who sings on an anthology of pieces woven together through a series of interconnected breathtaking fables.
GRIEVE THE NIGHT
Artist: Simeon Lumgair (featuring Cat Lane)
Album title: Grieve the Night
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative
Release date: October 26th 2020
Available for download and streaming.
Download the album and get a free digital lyric book.
The XØNØRØUZ music collective presents Grieve the Night, a new album from composer Simeon Lumgair. This atmospheric work features the unforgettable soaring vocals of Cat Lane and the rich mesmerising tones of Christhe Vreugdenhil on lead violin. Haunting melancholy lyrics set to ethereal electro-orchestral soundscapes unveil stories of ambiguous intensity and vulnerability.
The music can be streamed from 9 stores including Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, and Deezer.
"Lovely atmosphere, the strings make it feel so cinematic!"
MiCaela CloudKid, Music Reviewer
SOLEMN STILLNESS
Artist: Simeon Lumgair
Album title: Solemn Stillness
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative / Christmas
Release date: December 3rd 2021
Available for download and streaming 3rd December
The XØNØRØUZ music collective presents Solemn Stillness, a new album from composer Simeon Lumgair. Bringing fragments of classic Christmas carols in a contemporary orchestral soundscape. The work features Annie Ashton on lead cello.
The music can be streamed in over 10 stores including Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, and Deezer.
Releases
Singles
OSTENTATIOUS MISANTHROPY
Artist: Simeon Lumgair (featuring Queen of Opera)
Single title: Ostentatious Misanthropy
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative
Release date: August 19th 2022
Ostentatious Misanthropy is the fourth single from the album Paperback Fables Opus from composer Simeon Lumgair.
This is the story of a troubled writer who dwells on the relationship of two estranged lovers; they are oblivious to his presence and influence. The piece unfolds a tragic fable of intimacy and isolation, two lovers dependent on one another but unable to relate.
Abandonné dans le désert, tu es mon déluge
Ma teinte chatoyante qui ne s'estompe pas,
le monde est né autour de toi.
Tu as été projeté hors de l'espace
Ton courage sans méfiance me rend courageux.
Nos désirs sont hors de notre portée, nous dimmed noyés dans l'isolement.
CAEDMON'S HYMN
Artist: Simeon Lumgair (featuring Queen of Opera)
Single title: Caedmon's Hymn
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative
Release date: August 5th 2022
Caedmon's Hymn is the third single from the album Paperback Fables Opus from composer Simeon Lumgair. Caedmon's Hymn is believed to be the first English poem, written around 680 AD in old English. An antediluvian myth surrounds this poem that common cow-herder Caedmon lacked the ability to sing and had no rhetorical training until an angel gave him a song which now has been preserved through time.
This metamorphosis of the enigmatic hymn brings to life something which was sung on the hills of ancient history—the theophanic paradox of the divine and the earthy coexisting in harmony.
suē hē uundra gihwaes, ēci dryctin ōr āstelidæ.
HAUNTED FURY
Artist: Simeon Lumgair (featuring Queen of Opera)
Single title: Haunted Fury
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative
Release date: July 15th 2022
Haunted Fury is the second single from the album Paperback Fables Opus from composer Simeon Lumgair. We stand in the shadows of the great, the powerful and a myriad of forgotten souls. Our time is fleeting, yet we vainly conceive that not only the cosmos revolves around our existence but that we also deny the reality of mortality.
La folie des grandeurs
Une force majeure
Des façades idylliques
Les mortels jouent aux Dieux
Projetant des ombres
Poursuivant le vent
Baignant dans le crépuscule
Je vous ai aperçu
On arrive vide et on repart sombre
Retour à la poussière, retour dans les abîmes
GLANCING OVER PAPERBACKS
Artist: Simeon Lumgair (featuring Queen of Opera)
Single title: Glancing Over Paperbacks
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative
Release date: July 1st 2022
Glancing Over Paperbacks is the first single from the album Paperback Fables Opus from composer Simeon Lumgair. A cinematic sound featuring the majestic voice of D'Andrea Pelletier, the Queen of Opera. Pelletier gracefully sings the French poem about strangers who have an encounter for a brief moment when they notice they are reading the same novel. This is one of the multiple interconnecting narratives that are weaved throughout the album.
Une affinité éphémère, traversant des contrées sublimes
Alors que nous étions si loin
Nous étions plus proches que deux amants
Une synergie magnétique,
tournant la page en silence
Un regard par dessus nos livres de poche envoûtants
Arrachés par nos trains Se fuyant
Tels deux étrangers précipités dans une abîme infinie.
The Lyrics were also featured in a Poetry Festival.
It was also published in Anansi Archive Show me where it hurts, available on Amazon.
Coventry Carol
Artist: Simeon Lumgair
Single title: Coventry Carol
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative / Electronic / NeoClassical
Release date: Dec 4th 2020
Archipelago
Artist: Simeon Lumgair
Single title: Archipelago
Genre: Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative / Electronic / NeoClassical
Release date: Nov 9th 2020
Esoteric
Artist: Simeon Lumgair
Single title: Esoteric
Genre: Electronic / Contemporary Classical / Soundtrack / Alternative / NeoClassical
Released: 2018