Music Matters speaks with globally popular ambient/new-age music artist Kevin Keller on the release of his latest album "Evensong"

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Music Matters host Darrell Craig Harris speaks with popular ambient/new-age music artist Kevin Keller about the release of his latest album "Evensong" Darrell and Kevin also cover composing, collaboration, and more in this fun and insightful episode! More on Kevin Keller and his latest release Evensong is an 8-movement album that not only revives Hildegard’s sacred music but also brings her transcendental visions into the contemporary world, offering an immersive experience that blurs the lines between past and present, mysticism and music. Keller enriches her ancient compositions with layers of modern textures—combining strings, vocals, and analog synthesizers—to transform these chants into vivid soundscapes that feel simultaneously timeless and contemporary. At the heart of Evensong is an ambitious attempt to channel Hildegard’s spiritual visions, offering audiences a way to experience them in a way that wasn’t possible in her time.Kevin has been a leading figure in the new-age music scene for over 30 years, with 14 albums that fuse classical and electronic music in deeply evocative ways. This milestone release represents a significant leap in his artistic journey, and with the GRAMMY’s “New Age” category recently expanding to include ambient and chant music, Evensong is primed to make a powerful impact. www.KevinKeller.com www.Instagram.com/kevinkellerpro https://open.spotify.com/artist/1MpofLeuema5D0edeUEoAD?si=vV7MQgcHSSaMBEG_o75CFw Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris is sponsored by Shure Microphones. Voice overs provided by Nigel John Farmer from his studio VoiceWrapStudio.com in France. Our thanks to Rodney Hall FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for our intro and outro backing music clip. A Big Shout and thanks to our friends at @Shure for their support! Contact us at [email protected] Social: www.Instagram.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial www.MusicMattersPodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters Podcasts with Darrell Craig Harris, talking about all things music
0:09.8	with celebrities, artists, music business insiders and more.
0:15.0	Kevin Keller, how you doing?
0:22.0	I'm doing great.
0:23.0	Nice to meet you.
0:25.0	Nice to meet you too.
0:26.0	I was checking out your album,
0:28.0	and it's actually, we were just talking about before we started.
0:31.0	It's been out a year, but it's actually up for Grammy consideration.
0:34.5	You have actually an album celebration party coming up in New York, October 1st.
0:39.8	We'll talk about that. You have several several albums out how many have you released so far today
0:46.0	this is number 14 wow yeah that's a lot of work as we know for us us musicians it's a lot of a lot of work a lot of yeah yeah for number 14 and 30 years since my first record came out my first album was released in 94 so this is it's kind of a big year. Yeah that's awesome and I I tell you what I was
1:06.1	set checking out the album I know it's inspired and I'm gonna actually have you pronounce the name because I'm not sure on the last name how to pronounce it but
1:16.4	inspired by a composer from the 12th century. Yes, Hildegard of Bingen, yes. Right, who's actually quite famous because she was sort of a Renaissance woman
1:26.2	and a mother superior convent, the whole thing.
1:30.1	It's a really interesting story I was reading up on her.
1:32.2	She was, she was quite a powerhouse for that time period.
1:36.0	You know, she was, you know, I mean, she was a woman in the church in the medieval times, you know, and but she had quite a lot of influence in her lifetime.
1:48.4	And, you know, so she's very inspirational in not just not just in terms of the music that she wrote which was you know she was very prolific and wrote quite a lot of music but also she was a scientist and a writer and a nun.
2:08.1	And she's just, it was really an amazing,
2:11.2	amazing person, especially for that time period for being you know a
2:15.5	woman in that in society at that time to have as much influence as she did is is
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