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‘A sacred kind of sound’: inside a solar-powered journey to preserve the music of church organs
Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instruments Michael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were nearing the end of their pipe organ tour of Newfoundland when ...
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Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instruments Michael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were nearing the end of their pipe organ tour of Newfoundland when ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘A sacred kind of sound’: inside a solar-powered journey to preserve the music of church organs, Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instruments Michael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were nearing the end of their pipe organ tour of Newfoundland when they encountered a hitch in Aguathuna, a town of about 400 people on a craggy peninsula that juts out from the Canadian island’s south-western edge. For the past week, they had been showing up at old churches in remote communities like this one, preparing their solar-powered mobile studio, and recording instruments both humble and monumental, whose complex systems of keys, stops, hand cranks, foot pedals, bellows and reeds were designed to vibrate the air around them until it approximates the sound of God. This was all in service of music that was still taking shape in Duguay’s mind. It would eventually form the basis of the Ontario comp
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