{"product_id":"daniel-kidane-fast-slow","title":"Daniel Kidane: FAST\/SLOW","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease date: 30 October 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Kidane\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003edebut portrait album, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFAST\/SLOW\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together six works written between 2016 and 2025. Featuring performances by the \u003cstrong\u003eBBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, Present Music, BBC Singers, the Carducci Quartet \u003c\/strong\u003eand the\u003cstrong\u003e London Symphony Orchestra \u003c\/strong\u003eunder conductors including \u003cstrong\u003eSir Simon Rattle \u003c\/strong\u003eand\u003cstrong\u003e Andrew Gourlay\u003c\/strong\u003e, the album presents one of Britain's most exciting compositional voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross these works, the opposing forces of speed and stillness become a lens through which Kidane explores memory, grief, transformation and renewal. \u003cem\u003eSirens \u003c\/em\u003eis a dazzling orchestral showpiece that channels the energy of Manchester nightlife through glittering textures and a fearless fusion of orchestral writing with the pulse of jungle, dubstep and R\u0026amp;B. \u003cem\u003eBe Still \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a personal elegy whose trembling string textures create extraordinary emotional tension, revealing movement and life within apparent stillness. In \u003cem\u003eWinged\u003c\/em\u003e, the hypnotic choreography of starling murmurations inspires music of great fluidity scored for electric guitar and strings. Kidane set a deeply moving text by poet Simon Armitage to music for \u003cem\u003eThe Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash\u003c\/em\u003e, illuminating the strangeness of everyday life during Covid-19.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuatre Tableaux\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous string quartet inspired by the changing light of Florence, unfolding as four vividly coloured musical \"paintings\" that revel in the expressive possibilities of the ensemble. Finally, \u003cem\u003eSun Poem\u003c\/em\u003e presents a radiant meditation on “endings and beginnings”, inspired by the poetry of Kamau Brathwaite and the death of Kidane’s father and birth of his son. 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