St George’s, BristolNow 75, the ambient composer is on his first world tour, playing spectral
music that carries the audience to a higher plane
‘This is from a recent album,” begins Beverly Glenn-Copeland, his hands in the air like a preacher, his gorgeous smile wide. “It’s from, er, 2003. Time goes fast when you’re old.” At 75, the Canadian musician’s spiritual blend of minimalism, new-age electronica, folk and lieder-style singing is having a moment, spurred on by a reissue of his 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies in 2017, and this year’s rerelease of 2004’s cosmic Primal Prayer, alongside a film, and his first ever world tour.
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