Romilly Reflections, by Black Sesame

Romilly Reflections

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Please note - this is not a Black Sesame project, as such. It is a special commission, to commemorate the life of Romilly Walton-Masters, a friend and colleague, with whom it was my privilege to collaborate on her "Paris Diaries" series of short films.

We lost Romilly much too soon, in March 2015. Her family commissioned this composition to her memory.

Composer's notes:

1 - "Sass" (or "Sassy"). Here I was inspired by the young Romilly's sense of adventure, her fearlessness, her humour; her sense that there were no limits to what she could achieve. There is an echo of horses in the rhythm. There is also a reflective middle section, which was inspired by her short story "Green is not only for grass".

2 - "Drive". The Romilly that I knew was relentlessly productive, constantly creative, driven to produce work - despite occasional setbacks and frustrations.

3 - "Solace". This movement has more of a narrative: it begins at sunrise on a cliff overlooking the ocean; everything is calm, still, beautiful. There is a gentle breeze, which unexpectedly turns into a gusting wind, and we find ourselves in the middle of a storm, that no one had foreseen. After the storm dies down, there is again calm, and we find peace.

credits

released February 28, 2017

Clarinet: Juncal Salada-Codina
Piano: Chris Cody
Violins: Aurélion Guyot, Heather Stewart
Viola: Melissa Cox
Cello: Jean-Philippe Feiss
Double bass: Gerard McFadden

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Black Sesame Paris, France

Black Sesame is vocalist, violinist and composer, Melissa Cox.

Trained in jazz at Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music and in film composition at L'Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, Melissa is currently based in Paris, where she writes music and performs as a violinist and vocalist with numerous groups, including Kenna & Cox, The Downtown Merrylegs, Pinball, Elliot Murphy, and Inga Liljeström. ... more

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