ACTIVE LISTENING SESSION WITH PUPILS FROM KEYHAM BARTON
SCHOOL, PLYMOUTH – PART 2
So, just in case this confuses you, I went and took some new music in to a school (Keyham Barton, in Plymouth to be precise) and got their year 6's to review it. Here is what a couple of that class thought of the latest release by Poppy Ackroyd but first, my two pennies worth...
Poppy Ackroyd - The Calm Before (One Little Indian)
Listen With Monger Review
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Neo-classical superstar in the
making Poppy Ackroyd is bringing back a style of music to public consciousness
that is sorely missing at the moment and for that alone she should be
applauded. However, as if that wasn’t enough, Ackroyd has only gone and recording
a stunning piece by the name of ‘The Calm Before’ and you need to give six
minutes of your life over to listen to it. There’s a fluttering at the
beginning of this that is an intimate and delicate woodwind butterfly wing on
one side of the ocean only to build with an ominous swell in to something
altogether more powerful. The sprinkled piano notes and disorientating valves
clattering mix with plucked violin strings with unerring energy and resolution
to move forwards. There is power, there is beauty, there is emotion but most of
all there is something so utterly calming about this music that it is hard not
to fall under its spell and I really wouldn’t try to resist. Ackroyd has such a
huge future ahead of her but, I suspect, entirely on her terms which is just
the way you’d want it.
Year 6 Reviews
The song that I am writing about
is called The Calm Before and the artist’s name is Poppy Ackroyd. All the music
that she plays and that you hear, she played herself! She’s only 21 years old!
After my first listen, I thought the music was very relaxing. What I also
thought about the music was that it is a good song for stress relief to help
you meditate and calm down. I think the theme of this song could be a peaceful
jungle as I would describe it as a peaceful song. This song is perfect for me.
It doesn’t have any lyrics but I love the tune that she has created. Out of 10,
the rating I would give it is 9 out of 10 because sometimes it gets so quiet
that it’s unnoticeable. The picture that I can imagine in my head when I listen
to this song is me running through a jungle with a waterfall behind me and I
have to survive in the wild with a pack of lions under my feet. That’s because
I’ve climbed up into a tree and I’m eating raw pig and that’s why I ended up in
a tree with the lions and a few tigers. I enjoyed the song called The Calm
Before because it is peaceful and relaxing. I think that it was the best song
that Roland played for us. By AH (Addy)
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| Poppy Ackroyd - trapped in a piano |