Various Artists - Miriama Young: This Earthly Round (2023) Hi-Res

Miriama Young is an award-winning New Zealand / Australian composer and sound artist based at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. With a childhood as a cathedral chorister, and teenage years steeped in jazz and blues, her music reveals the influences of numinous ecclesiastical vocal music with the vibrant rhythms and harmonies of jazz.

Young’s music is grounded in ecological concerns of the Anthropocene age, and this album is a musical reflection on our planet habitat as it has been shaped by human activity. It opens with geo-political interventions in Snapdragon, a personal response to the American military invasion of Iraq, then turns to the devastating effects of climate change in This Earthly Round, where the interaction of prepared piano and saxophone creates a shimmering soundworld of fluctuating pitch and timbres.