RECORDING HEAVEN: CLASSIC PEACE ANTHEMS ON THE OUDE KERK CARILLON
This project is a collaboration with the artist Roos Blogg in which we transposed classic peace anthems by replaying them on the bells of the Old Church in Amsterdam's Red Light District.
Our mission statement was: ‘In the current climate of continued exploitation of vulnerable peoples and nations and abuses of power in the world, and the violence, poverty and despair caused by war and imbalances, what better to do than to focus on the notion of peace.
The transposing of classic peace anthems taken from pop culture, which are songs of the People, by replaying them on this ultimate instrument of ‘God’ allows our demand for peace to resonate in the church and wider-city context.’
The result is a beautiful collection on LP with silkscreened covers: please contact me if you are interested in owning one.
In the pictures to the left you can see me sitting on the roof recording heaven with my furry boom (pictures taken by Roos Blogg from the bell tower).
The track listing is as follows:
side a)
AQUARIUS by Fifth Dimension
WIND OF CHANGE by The Scorpions
DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS by Band Aid
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE by The Beatles
side b)
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by Louis Armstrong
IMAGINE by John Lennon
PEACE TRAIN by Cat Stevens
KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR by Bob Dylan