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Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music, Volume No. 8 Released by Waiteata Music Press, 2005 This collection features the Yesaroun' Duo's world premiere recording of Miriama Young's Snapdragon (2003) - written for Yesaroun' Purchase the disc from Sounz... Learn more about Miri at here... Learn more about the Yesaroun' Duo at www.yesaroun.com... Click below to hear the track, or option- or right-click here to download.

Credits:
Recorded June 2004
Princeton University's Taplin Hall
Mary Roberts, engineer
produced by Yesaroun' and Miriama Young
edited by Sam Solomon
mastered with Ryan Streber

The composers note:
"Snapdragon" was written for and premiered by the Yesaroun' Duo with their fearsome exuberance and technical virtuosity in mind. The piece was composed during a time of media frenzy over America's initial attack on Iraq. Snow was falling in Princeton, physically trapping me in a tall apartment, while my connection with the outside world at the time - the TV - projected sensational stories and graphic images of far away places in turmoil. Gradually, I had this sense of becoming numb, as weather and war preyed on a creeping awareness of my incapacity to act in any tangible way. So, the music that emerged has a certain physicality, borne of frustration and a sense of disenfranchisement: it is music rooted in the body, and composed for the body - dance-like, of heartbeat, breath, and sigh - a way to "voice" when I couldn't speak.