Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra - The Unfolding

Released 1st April 2022.

There are pieces of music that seek to tell us deeper stories. Others harness the talents of the players at their disposal in adventurous ways. Then there are the rare, generous works that make us think back to our roots ashuman beings and to our shared beginnings in the universe, that lift us in their melodies, rhythms and textures,that carry us with them.

The Unfolding is all of these things. An extraordinary eight-part collaboration between composer Hannah Peel(Mercury Prize and Emmy nominee) and Paraorchestra, it was made over three years in precious morsels oftime around a global pandemic. These circumstances unexpected when the collaboration began add weightto its explorations in sound about who we are, where we came from, and who we could all be. The Unfoldingalso explores Paraorchestras progressive idea of what an orchestra should be, mixing analogue, digital andassistive instruments with a unique ense