Description

Jeff Bird’s new release ORDO VIRTUTUM celebrates his love of the transcendent music of 12th century mystic HILDEGARD von BINGEN.  The melodies of his new arrangements for harmonica draw upon Hildegards’s morality play, ORDO VIRTUTUM, considered to be one of the earliest recorded musical dramas in western music. Quietly stirring, Jeff’s luminous arrangements imbue each track with its own unique sonic environment ranging from string orchestra to a 19th century pump organ to a remarkable newly invented instrument; the fron. With breath as a rhythmic guide, each piece unfolds like deep sonic ocean swells creating a profoundly meditative experience.