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On the High Road - Audio Page

The score for On the High Road consists of a combination of recorded playback and live-on-stage vocals presented using a surround sound rig.

The soundtrack is dominated by tuned and edited samples of howling winds, downpours and thunderclaps. These samples collide with twisted classical textures, drunken bar-room pianos and clubby beats. Out of this mixture emerges the show’s three very different vocalists – Irish traveller singer Thomas McCarthy, opera singer Melanie Pappenheim, and contemporary music hall artist George Hepworth.

Stereo and Atmos mixes of this recording coming soon.

The two clips below are from the first half of the production and feature the voice of Melanie Peppenheim.

'On The High Road' production page

Nightmare Excerpt

Prayer excerpt

Musician credits

Paul Clark - Music
Thomas McCarthy - vocal, ‘Carnival’
Melanie Pappenheim - vocal, ‘Overture’ and ‘Night’
George Hepworth - vocal, ‘Goodbye’

Press

“an exhilarating experience to the listener, not allowing you to draw yourself away for a moment as Clark’s wonderfully crafted beats accompanied [the dancers].”
Neon Music

“The opening of the show is soundtracked by the transcendental singing of acclaimed soprano Melanie Pappenheim, and the music, composed by Paul Clark, is dissonant but versatile, often with a moving beauty. It shifts from discordant piano to the kinds of squelching white noise experimented with by Björk, Guy Sigsworth and Matmos. Lightning strikes and rain sounds become looped and resampled as organic sounds become electronic noise, and vice versa.”
British Dance Review

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