Phantasies is an album by the American jazz pianist Jaki Byard with the Apollo Stompers, recorded in 1984 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

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Prima Facie are please to announce the release of English Phantasies for Clarinet trio performed by the Tritium Trio. This album continues the series of contemporary music being interpreted and performed by younger musicians.

Formed in January 2013 at the Royal Academy of Music, the Tritium Trio is a truly multinational ensemble, comprising Slovenian clarinettist Jernej Albreht, Swedish cellist Lydia Hillerudh, and Australian pianist Joseph Havlat. The foremost desire of the group is to explore repertoire other than pieces typically played by this ensemble type, in order to make rehearsals and performances as refreshing and enlightening as possible for both the trio and the audience they may have.

With works by John Ireland, Kenneth Leighton and John McCabe the disc also celebrates the 70th birthday of one of the the founders of Prima Facie, Giles

Easterbrook with a stunning recording of his own trio’, the disc also marks the 80th anniversay of the birth of John McCabe and the 90th of Kenneth Leighton

Recorded with the beautiful Fazioli piano at Turner Sims, Southampton this is a feast of 20th Century composition at its very best played by one of the most stunning trios in the world.

The Mermaid of Rostherne MereSo deep are the meres in Cheshire that people used to believe they were all linked by subterranean rivers leading to the Irish Sea. The story tells that while a bell was being installed in the church on the edge of the Mere, it was dropped and tumbled down the bank into the depths of the water.

Once a year, on Easter Sunday, the Mermaid would swim underground from the sea and appear in Rostherne Mere and toil the submerged bell. She would rise up, serenading the villagers with her mystical singing and combing her beautiful hair.The music paints a misty Easter day-break on the bank of Rostherne Mere with a dawn chorus of Tits and Finches. Deep notes in the piano sound the sunken church bell prompting the villagers to gather round hoping for a glimpse of the Mermaid. They can be heard singing the ancient Easter plainchant, Victimae Paschalis, before the rustling wind and rippling water intensify to add to the expectant atmosphere. Stillness then settles over the mere as the Mermaid surfaces emanating her mystical music (this is portrayed through the lyrical oboe melody).

Infinity blade iii maps. After capturing the imagination of all around the mere, the Mermaid then retreats leaving the villagers and birds to sing in wonderment of what they have just seen.Recorded by Intriplicate, 2007Comment bythanks to Chris Beesley for the picture 2012-04-15T09:05:03Z.License: all-rights-reserved.