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Fall From Earth

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Fall From Earth
For Pamela Neville-Sington

What would it feel like if we stopped believing in gravity?
I love that moment in a flight when the aeroplane breaches the clouds and (despite the murky conditions below) the sunshine plays out across the utopian landscape of the cloud layer, something so physically present and tangible and yet merely vapour
The first time I flew to America in 1979 my face was pressed tight against the glass of the passenger window, not quite believing what I was seeing as a nine-year-old, and honestly believing that what was just outside the window was possibly what heaven looks like.
Even now I'm still that kid pressed up against the window on a flight…

A note about the dedication -
Pamela Neville-Sington was an astoundingly intelligent woman whom I met through her husband, the filmmaker David Sington. Pam passed away shortly before the Abbey Road recording sessions, and I wrote this piece after her memorial service which was astoundingly joyous, funny, musically rich and occasionally profane. A deeply loved and loving person, she was an authority on Browning, Trollope and Utopian histories and is still to this date the only person I’ve met who could confound Dr David Starkey with raw intellect...

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from Fall From Earth, released June 22, 2018
Featuring Clio Gould (solo violin) with English Session Orchestra conducted by Philip Sheppard

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Philip Sheppard London, UK

Philip Sheppard is an accomplished film composer and virtuoso cellist.
His film soundtracks include In the Shadow of the Moon (winner of the Sundance Film Festival), The Tillman Story, Sergio, Bobby Fischer Against the World amongst many other award-winning films.
He has written for many major orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic.
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