Shipwrecked, an album featuring the Irish early music ensemble eX, defies easy definition. On a purely musical level it can be enjoyed as a collection late Renaissance vocal and instrumental music from a seemingly unrelated assortment of traditions, including Spanish, English, Irish, and Gaelic, performed with irresistible exuberance and vibrancy. The album is actually the original cast recording of what director Eric Fraad described as a "strange postmodernist event" that "brings the Renaissance together with a really ...
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Shipwrecked, an album featuring the Irish early music ensemble eX, defies easy definition. On a purely musical level it can be enjoyed as a collection late Renaissance vocal and instrumental music from a seemingly unrelated assortment of traditions, including Spanish, English, Irish, and Gaelic, performed with irresistible exuberance and vibrancy. The album is actually the original cast recording of what director Eric Fraad described as a "strange postmodernist event" that "brings the Renaissance together with a really contemporary sensibility of theater," first presented at the 2011 Dublin Festival. Shipwrecked uses drama, narrative, pantomime, dance, and music to tell the true but outrageously far-fetched sounding story of the adventures of the captain of a Spanish galleon who was cast ashore on the coast of Ireland after the rout of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The production must have been wonderfully eccentric; among its many elements it included elaborately detailed reproductions of period...
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