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Surfacing is dedicated to experimental and outsider songwriters and composers exploring interesting musical territories.
Tonight's theme is 'Cantus', inspired by a conversation with one of fbi’s wonderful staff members Shareeka Helaluddin who was tuning in last week. She mentioned she really enjoyed a song by Shovel Dance Collective and then we ended up down a rabbit hole of beautiful, very moving choral and orchestral music. Shareeka recommended a piece of music called 'Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten'. So 'cantus' is latin for 'singing', but it also means 'traditional song'. And what Surfacing has always been about is that intersection of traditional songwriting and composing met with more experimental and contemporary practices. And tonight we'll be hearing artists that make music very much steeped in history but taken somewhere new, that aren’t replicas of a sound or musical history but build upon it.
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