Sounds
Our ensemble is unique.There is little to no music written for our particular combination of instruments - so, we make our own or ask others to! Our music repsonds to the timbres and sonoriteis of our ensmeble, as well as engaging with environments and communities. From re-imaging half forgotten folk tunes; arranging piano scores; to composing our own music, Breakfast Club is a celebration of music from across the centuries and the globe.
As Our Hands Move
Breakfast Club, 2023As Our Hands Move is a constellation of original compositions, field-recordings, spoken text, arranged folk tunes and interpretations of verbal and text scores that interrelate and speak to each other - sonic representations of fragility and struggle, togetherness, intergenerationality and affection. It is a gesture that aspires to capture the ephemerality of music making “with self – with other(s) – with context/environment […] Letting go of old patterns - letting go of new patterns. Repatterning” Pauline Oliveros (2010).
At its heart, this album is about friendship and a love of making and playing together. We hope you enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed making it.
Order and download the album here.
Live recording, Daylight Music London
I Know You by Rhia Parker (1987 - )
Recorded at Sands Films, Rotherhithe, London
Excerpt from a Breakfast Club album including a new commission by composer Sylvia Lim, alongside arrangements and new works including this track by Rhia Parker.
We Live Submerged by Rhia Parker (1987 -)
Live Recordings, St Mary’s Church London
Salterello - Anon
A medieval dance tune from Italy.
Bambo
An arrangement of a West African Mandinka folk tune, originally heard as a field recording of Alhaji Bai Konte (kora and voice) and re-imagined here.
Collaborations
Peaceful Determination
This piece was written during the Imagine Commission project with the Women for Refugee Women, The words are by the poet EE and Detta Danford, music by Breakfast Club,
I Know You by Rhia Parker (1987 - )
Recorded at Sands Films, Rotherhithe, London
Excerpt from a Breakfast Club album including a new commission by composer Sylvia Lim, alongside arrangements and new works including this track by Rhia Parker.
We Live Submerged by Rhia Parker (1987 -)
Live Recordings, St Mary’s Church London
Salterello - Anon
A medieval dance tune from Italy.
Bambo
An arrangement of a West African Mandinka folk tune, originally heard as a field recording of Alhaji Bai Konte (kora and voice) and re-imagined here.
Collaborations
Peaceful Determination
This piece was written during the Imagine Commission project with the Women for Refugee Women, The words are by the poet EE and Detta Danford, music by Breakfast Club,
