Kingdom of Daylight
Kingdom of Daylight, my latest composition, is out now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon, Deezer etc. Here it is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fxcx7cdFA7Q Kingdom of Daylight was inspired by the beauty and sensuality of the language and imagery in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem ‘The Windhover’: I caught this morning morning's minion*, king- dom of daylight's dauphin*, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air… … how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, …: the hurl and gliding… AND the fire that breaks from thee then,… … and blue-bleak embers… Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. The contrasts of brightness and shadow in early morning light, in the wimpling (rippling) [...]