Azeruz

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'Azeruz' is the name of the project and the resulting album created by Chris Abrahams (the Necks) and Shane Fahey (Social Interiors, Makers of the Dead Travel Fast) using early music material composed and developed by Stevie Wishart (Machine for Making Sense, Sinfonye ). The album, released in 2000, successfully traverses the genres of neofolk, avant-rock/pop, experimental, electronic, dub; mediaeval, early music and world music. STEVIE WISHART: voice, violin, mediaeval fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, electronics CHRIS ABRAHAMS: sampler, dx7, piano, organ SHANE FAHEY: synths and analog tape manipulation All experts in their fields, the musicians on this album succeed in creating a sonic landscape of great breadth and depth that stretches back through time. Themes, song structures and instrumentation of early European music are successfully translated into a modern context with Wishart’s haunting vocals, arrangements and lyrical interpretations. This album is a musical odyssey that stems from the manuscripts of early music vaults. Traditional instruments (flutes and percussion by Jim Denley, Stevie’s hurdy gurdy, fiddle, and violin) are combined with intricate sampling, programming and keys (Chris Abrahams) and analog synths & found sounds (Shane Fahey), brought together by Shane’s spatial, painstaking production techniques. Wishart, Abrahams and Fahey have translated the traditional form of early music song through the use of complementary harmonic gestures that have been sampled