Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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David Bruce wrote about the text of this beautiful piece:
"I have been lucky enough to spend some time recently collaborating with the writer Aimee Bender. By chance I came across Aimee's extraordinary collection of short stories 'Willful Creatures' and I instantly felt we shared many artistic goals and ideals. Aimee's stories are often described as 'modern fairytales', they have something of the tone of a fairytale (a generalized sense of place and time, a willingness to incorporate the magical or supernatural, and often, a rather savage streak), but are unmistakably modern in tone, and a million miles from the Victorian sensibilities and morals of Hans Andersen or the Brothers Grimm. Aimee creates unique and extraordinary worlds, full of color and magic, tangential to our own, but somehow, in an often witty and understated way, reflecting back on our own world, returning us to it with fresh eyes. It is an approach to art which I find highly invigorating and inspiring."

COMPOSER: David Bruce
SOPRANO: Nora Fischer
ENSEMBLE: The North Wind Ensemble

TRACKLIST:
0:00 - I. The Snow is Completely Without Hope
4:26 - II. The North Wind is a Woman
8:09 - III. The Night Wants You to Forget
13:16 - IV. The Crescent Moon is a Dangerous Lunatic
16:27 - V. The Mountain Shares her Solitary Dreams

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