Love & Trial by Stuart Anthony with Larry Beckett

The poet Larry Beckett draws from the ancient epic 'The Voyage' and the hymns of Orpheus, passages from the philosopher Heraclitus, and the renaissance Cretan poem 'Erotokritos'. These works are translated by Beckett into his own poetry, with Anthony writing the accompanying music. There are also new Beckett/Anthony originals, with the siren reappearing in one of them. Using instruments such as the Tambouras, a 7-string long-neck instrument, the pocket-size Baglamas, and twelve-string guitar, songs in the Greek idiom have been formed, sung by Anthony or recited by Beckett.

Tracklist

1.	Tambouras	2:46

2.	Hymn to Zeus	2:47

3.	Worker at the Lyre	2:25

4.	Song Like Honey	3:23

5.	Charybdis	1:29

6.	Hymn to Artemis	0:55

7.	Spirit of Water	3:37

8.	Temenos	1:18

9.	Flux	3:04

10.	Exile and the Kingdom	4:28

11.	Wild Rose	2:39

12.	I Was Proposing	1:31

13.	Song to the Siren (Live on the Odysseia, Nidri, Lefkada)	3:59

14.	In the Pitching Water	1:49

15.	Oblivion	3:22

16.	The Song	3:44

Credits

released November 1, 2018

The Players

Stuart Anthony - Vocals, Tambouras, Baglamas, 12 & 6 String guitar, Percussion

Larry Beckett - Spoken Word (Hymn to Zeus, Charybdis, Hymn to Artemis, Temenos, I Was Proposing, In the Pitching Water)

Jess Thomas - Vocals (Wild Rose, Spirit of Water)

Fergus Walsh – Bass

Allan Gardner – Percussion

Pat Simmons - Violin (Worker at the Lyre)

Paul Walmsley - Sound effects (Charybdis)

Gerasimos Dimosthenis Ktenas – Conch (Oblivion)

Produced by Paul Walmsley

All lyrics by Larry Beckett

Photography by Pauline Clark

Cover Design – Susannah Beckett

Love & Trial is 43 minutes long

All music tracks except ‘Song to the Siren’ are written by Stuart Anthony

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