An Organ Thing of The Day: Daniel O’Sullivan follows up his recent post-classical music opus, Rosarium, with an addendum of chamber-pop magic, ‘Sybil’s Leaves’, the title inspired by the Gerard Manley Hopkins’ apocalyptic sonnet, Spelt from Sybil’s Leaves, is released as a single this week..

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The single is exquisite but it is the album you need to lose yourself in, maybe it is helping that today is a gorgeously sunny Autumn day? That the album sounds like Autumn, that the leaves are changing colour, I suspect this would sound beautiful at any time of the day or year This is of course the same Daniel O’Sullivan we know from that night at Cafe Oto with Toby Driver , he was wonderful that night and the string arrangement on this song was written by Timba Harris, who he met one fateful night at Café OTO while performing with their mutual friend Toby Driver. – “Timba is a great soul and has worked with John Zorn, Eyvind Kang, Secret Chiefs 3 and many other artists I greatly admire.”

So we missed the album back in July, we missed it completely, and it is a gorgeous album, gloriously detailed, easy on the ear, very clever without needing to tell you how clever it is, an album not to be missed. Rosarium is the third solo album by English composer, Daniel O’Sullivan, chamber pop I guess is the easy description but really, this is far more than something to just slot into a pigeonhole, this is a very special album. Classical composition, chamber pop, English warmth, an album that glows, an album to get lost in for hours and days and probably weeks.  One of the line of great English albums and certainly one of the msuical highlights of the year as we are discovering this fine Autumn afternoon…

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