Excerpt from Extreme Unction, by Christos Hatzis by Jeff Reilly published on 2017-09-19T20:59:32Z Please note that this is an excerpt only, to purchase the complete track please go to: jeffreilly.bandcamp.com or press the BUY button above EXTREME UNCTION is part of Jeff Reilly's release TO DREAM OF SILENCE which was released at jeffreilly.bandcamp.com on September 22nd, 2017 and internationally on all major download and streaming sites on September 29th, 2017. Jeff Reilly, bass clarinet with the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra conducted by Kevin Mallon Extreme Unction is the name given to the last rite of the Catholic Church reserved for people who are on the threshold of passing from the material consciousness and state of being to a different one. As the title implies, Extreme Unction is a dark piece about dying and the difficult but inevitable transformation from a physical consciousness, to a higher one. It depicts the quiet opening of the floodgates of the Spirit, as our connection to the material world weakens and eventually ceases altogether. This process is often not a willing surrender. It alternates between our sense of an approaching light and the peace and joy that accompany it and the often violent efforts of our physical body to cling to that which we already know and hold dear. Half notated, half improvised, Extreme Unction is a composition that allows for an imaginary glimpse of our afterlife and of our instinctive struggle to cling on to the things we know. It is a meditation on dying and on what may lie beyond, as well as a (hopefully) early attempt to come to terms with this important and inevitable milestone in my own life. (From program notes by Christos Hatzis) Jeff Reilly, bass clarinet with the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra players: First violins: Manuela Milani, Martine Dubé, Sara Mastrangelo, Geneviève Petit Second violins: Solange Tremblay, Marjolaine Lambert, Maria Nenoiu,Brigitte Amyot Violas: Catherine Ferreira, Sonya Probst Cellos: Julian Armour, Thaddeus Morden Bass: John Geggie Conducted by Kevin Mallon www.thirteenstrings.ca www.jeffreilly.ca Genre Classical Comment by shiv kumar It just mesmerized mr 2017-11-19T18:31:19Z