{"title":"Nat Birchall Quartet","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"path-of-enlightenment","title":"Path Of Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome words from Nat about the music – “For this recording I composed some songs using more “exotic” (for want of a better word) modes, which I have always meant to explore in more depth but never really got around to very much. The  first song for instance, Red, Gold and Green, uses an Ethiopian scale. The title comes from the colours of the Ethiopian flag, which is also symbolic in Rastafari so has a kind of double meaning, like a lot of my songs. The title track, Path of Enlightenment, uses several modes, starting in a major key then moving to the Phrygian mode, then to a minor key. The piano solo is in a 28 bar minor blues form. Menat is based on a mode of the Byzantine scale, I’m not sure if it has a particular name or not. Amenhotep was the name of several Egyptian pharaohs, Amenhotep IV being the original given name of Akhenaten. When I was writing this song it put me in mind of my song, Akhenaten, simply because they are both in 5\/4 time, so I decided to give this one a pharaonic name too. Spheshile is a Zulu word (and sometimes name) that means “beautiful gift”, the title was suggested by a friend from South Africa. All this means nothing of course if the music doesn’t tell a story, I think the unfamiliar modes allowed us to speak of interesting things that may not have come to us otherwise. Finally, I chose to use the quartet format for this recording because it occurred to me that it tends to make for a more cohesive group sound, and it had been a while since we recorded this way.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ancient Archive of Sound","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57279648399691,"sku":"R0154-1281","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a3401771451_2.jpg?v=1778580714"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/nat-birchall-quartet.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}