Momus - Smudger Format:CD For this meeting of the

For this meeting of the minds John invited some of the most outstanding instrumentalists including Indian vocalist Shankar Mahadevan

I cannot imagine a better performance than this one" (Folksongs) "all these settings are beautiful and are sung with warm tone and blend

Following his acclaimed first recording for Alpha Classics

A virtuoso violinist who was so badly shocked by WW1 that he withdrew from the world altogether

Momus - Smudger Format:CD For this meeting of theSmudger, the 2022 album from Momus, has several quite distinct strands of influence: from Lieder to Bowie's Lodger, from Benjamin Britten to British Music Hall comedy. Lieder reached it's zenith with Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise; Momus "smudges" this Romantic tradition by opening with a melancholy electronic pop take on Schubert's setting of the poem Gute Nacht, with lyrics newly and freely translated: "The stranger is arriving, a stranger I