Untold Things
jocelyn pook
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In a world where everyone seems to know everyone else's business, thoughts and shoe size, it's good to have a little mystery. And the music of British composer/pianist/viola player Jocelyn Pook nearly always comes wrapped in plenty of delicious intrigue. Even the title of her 2001 album Untold Things arouses plenty of curiosity. Its 11 pieces continue this motif, drifting in like wisps of mist, gauzy and ghostly. Pook has never taken the easiest road, always aiming beyond the classicist's familiar domain, stretching her wings to soar over less travelled territory. You can hear it in the alluring, fluttering notes of the qanun, an Arabic variant of the zither. And you can hear it in the ethereal, crystalline voices that rise and recede with clear echoes of the majesty of Les Mystere Des Voix Bulgares. This reprisal of Untold Things, a dozen years after its initial appearance, is enhanced by two suitably haunting extra pieces, Adam's Lullaby and Ave Maria, both voiced by the ever-immaculate Natacha Atlas. Let the mystery live on. This album is part of Series Four of Real World Gold. Over the past 24 years, Real World Records have widened horizons and expanded record collections with unerring taste, artistry and eclecticism, releasing extraordinary music from all corners of the globe. Almost a quarter of a century on, it's time to stand back and admire the view, to celebrate the formidable body of work that the label has given the world. And that's where Real World Gold comes in, a retrospective series that rightfully redirects the spotlight onto what's come before. Already the series has dusted off the back catalogue of, among others, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Afro Celt Sound System, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Sheila Chandra, Papa Wemba, Thomas Mapfumo, Sevara Nazarkhan, Joseph Arthur and Adrian Sherwood.