Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. B1977.14.4997.
Blake and Music, 2023
Camila Oliveira (camila.querino@edu.ulisboa.pt) is a research fellow at the University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in English literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and King’s College London on the translation of Blake’s Jerusalem into Portuguese and biblical intertextuality. She is currently working on Romanticism and music reception and writing a monograph on Blake and contemporary music.
Jason Whittaker (jwhittaker@lincoln.ac.uk) works in the College of Arts at the University of Lincoln. He is the author and editor of several works on Blake, including William Blake and the Myths of Britain (Palgrave, 1999), Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827 (with Shirley Dent, Palgrave, 2002), Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake (Reaktion Books, 2021), and Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness (Oxford University Press, 2022). His main research interests deal with the reception of Blake, and he is the editor of the site Zoamorphosis and one of the editors for Global Blake.
As has been evident since the pandemic, settings of Blake’s poetry to music and songs inspired by his art more generally have been enjoying something of a golden age, with the number of individual tracks and albums increasing steadily each year. Following trends set during the pandemic, streaming services—whether large companies such as Apple and Spotify, or smaller ones such as Bandcamp—have lowered the barriers to entry for many composers and musicians. More than fifty percent of the works that we list for 2023 were self-released, and many others were published or released by independent labels. In addition, the range of countries represented continues to grow, with entries from Asia, South America, and eastern Europe alongside those from the UK, USA, and western Europe. Settings of Blake’s music have long appealed to composers in Russia and Brazil, for instance, but the relative ease with which artists can now present their music to a global audience makes it much easier to discover such compositions.
Pop and alternative forms of music dominate, as they did in last year’s list, but in contrast to 2022 there has been a significant rise in classical settings, such as Mark Bowler and Marianna Suri’s excellent Fragments of Experience or Morten Poulsen’s A Clear Midnight, which includes beautiful renditions of various poems from Songs of Innocence. Among those settings is “A Cradle Song,” one of the most popular poems for composers in 2023, with five versions. “The Angel” and various compositions based on The Marriage of Heaven and Hell also appear several times, and there are a dozen recordings of “A Poison Tree.” By far the favorite, however, is “The Tyger,” which was set to music twenty-five times, in versions as radically different as Nikholas Anderson’s darkly ambient “In the Forests of the Night,” ESD Melo’s Brazilian Afrobeats, or Andrew Miller’s complex choral arrangement performed by the Dordt University Choir.
We omit here any songs based on a single quotation or phrase from Blake’s poetry or art. Wherever possible, the country of the artist is given, as well as the work’s instrumentation, duration, publisher, copyright date, and genre. So prevalent is streaming now, however, that we no longer record the format, with nearly every release being available only through streaming services or as a digital download. As such, all entries include at least one link to a recording.
Adlington, Lucy — UK
From Daughters of Albion ; for voice, guitar, bass, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Ambient.
Tracks: Daughters of Albion (01:55); Los (00:57).
Link: Bandcamp.
Airey, Peter — UK
The Smile ; for voice and guitar.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Smile (02:19).
Link: Bandcamp.
Alighieri — Unknown
From Innocence ; for voice, drums, and synthesizers.Insights Records, © 2023. Electronic.
Track: Infant Joy (05:41).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Ame with VitaNova — Japan
From あくびの空 ; for voice and guitar.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: A Cradle Song (02:41).
Links: Apple, Bandcamp.
Amora, Roy, Manuel Arcamo, Arnold Cespon, and Jeffrey Malanog — Unknown
The Divine Image ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Gospel.
Track: The Divine Image (03:13).
Link: YouTube.
Anderson, Nikholas — USA
Piping down the Valleys Wild ; for synthesizers.1946529 Records DK, © 2023. Ambient/electronic.
Tracks: Sweet Joy Befall Thee (04:22); Hear the Wren with Sorrows Small (03:35); Piping down the Valleys Wild (06:22); In the Forests of the Night (04:50); Sunflower (05:45); And His Dark Secret Love (10:44); Little Wanderer Hie Thee Home (04:01).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Another Black Autumn — USA
From Resplendent Apparitions at the Dawn ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Black metal.
Track: To the Muses (10:04).
Links: Bandcamp, YouTube.
Antichües — Czech Republic
From Death Walks among Us ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Black metal.
Track: Infant Sorrow (01:10).
Link: Bandcamp.
Antognini, Ivo — Switzerland
From Ivo Antognini: Come to Me in the Silence of the Night—Choral Works ; for SATB choir.Hyperion Records, © 2023. Classical.
Track: The Angel (05:29).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Apellion — Mexico
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; for synthesizers.Apellion Records, © 2023. Dark electronic.
Track: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (08:13).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Asshole — Unknown
From 11 Songs in Alphabetical Order ; for voice, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Asshole, © 2023. Electronic.
Track: The Garden of Love (03:48).
Links: Amazon, Spotify, YouTube.
ATMRio — Brazil
From Humano, demasiado humano ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.ATMRio, © 2023. Rock.
Track: A Divine Image (02:42).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Attercop — USA
From Blake Brautigan ; for voice and mandolin.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Tracks: The Chimney Sweeper [Experience] (01:52); Song 3d of a Shepherd (02:10); The Human Abstract (02:03).
Link: Bandcamp.
Atzori, Luca — Italy
From Iperrealismo magico ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Radiobluenote Records, © 2023. Hip-hop/electronic.
Track: The Garden of Love (02:18).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Babin, David — France
The Little Boy Lost ; for voice and synthesizers.Bisonbison, © 2023. Pop/musical.
Track: The Little Boy Lost (04:42).
Links: Spotify, YouTube.
Baron Jägermasoch — Italy
From Trilogia del corpo ; for synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Electronic.
Track: Ahania (13:57).
Link: Bandcamp.
Bedless Bones — Estonia
A Poison Tree ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Bedless Bones, © 2023. Dark electronic.
Track: A Poison Tree (04:12).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
The Bittersweet Christmas Band — USA
From Dance in the Dark of the Year ; for voice and guitar.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: [The] Divine Image (02:54).
Link: Bandcamp.
Bolzani, Dario — Unknown
From Stanzas for Music ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.3303184 Records DK, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Tyger (03:35).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Bowler, Mark, and Marianna Suri — UK/Cyprus
Fragments of Experience ; for voice, piano, harp, winds, and strings.One Glass Eye Records, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: Folly Is an Endless Maze (01:21); The Fly (03:52); Earth Raised Up Her Head (01:01); The Sick Rose (04:40); Oh Earth, Oh Earth, Return (01:22); The Voice of the Ancient Bard (04:24); Youth of Delight (01:37).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
British Blues Boys — UK
From Hot Night in Harry’s Bar ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.British Blues Boys, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Poison Tree [adapted] (04:33).
Links: Amazon, Spotify.
Buhne, Lorenzo — Italy
The Shepherd ; for voice, guitar, drums, and flute.NocturnalSol, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Shepherd (04:13).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Coffee Shop Chronicles — France
From Ya fundera ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Coffee Shop Chronicles, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Chimney Sweeper [Experience] (04:29).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Crafts, Daniel Steven, and Brian Cheney — USA
Bright Star ; for voice, strings, and piano.Brian Cheney, © 2023. Classical.
Track: The Tyger (05:29).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Death Verified — Poland
From Baksbat ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Experimental.
Track: Systematic Destruction of the Individual [“And did those feet”] (04:16).
Links: Amazon, Apple, YouTube.
deCosta, Richard — USA
From Quills and Quavers ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.4636563 Records DK, © 2023. Dark ambient.
Track: O Rose Thou Art Sick (04:50).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Dizzards of Woz — Germany
From 2022-2 Essays on Analogue/Digital Reflections ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Rock/heavy metal.
Track: Night (04:04).
Link: Bandcamp.
Dom Fine Music — Australia
The Tyger ; for clarinet quartet.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Track: The Tyger (03:11).
Links: Bandcamp, YouTube.
Douglas, Bill — Canada
From Choral & Piano: Peaceful Melodies ; for choir and piano.Hearts of Space Records, © 2023. Classical.
Track: O Earth, O Earth, Return (04:18).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Dove, Jonathan — UK
Perihelion ; for choir and piano.Imperial College Chamber Choir, © 2023. Classical.
Track: Ah, Sun-Flower! (02:11).
Link: Spotify.
Du Pré, Arnesen — France
The Garden ; for flute and piano.P.art1, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: The Garden of Love (04:19); Infant Sorrow (04:25); Mad Song (03:53); Soft Snow (02:55); The Tyger (04:02); To the Evening Star (04:44); Spring (05:37); Jerusalem (07:55).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Emmanuel, Michael — USA
Piping down the Valleys Wild ; for voice and small ensemble.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: Piping down the Valleys Wild (02:35).
Link: YouTube.
Eneit — USA
Laments from “Visions of the Daughters of Albion” ; for piano.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: Oothoon’s Lament (03:04); Theotormon’s Lament (05:28).
Link: Bandcamp.
ESD Melo — Brazil
Tyger ; for synthesizers.ESTL, © 2023. Afrobeat.
Track: Tyger (02:45).
Links: Apple, Spotify.
E.V.E — Uzbekistan
From Instincts ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.E.V.E Music, © 2023. Rock.
Track: Nurse’s Song [Innocence] (03:39).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
Exocet — Mexico
From Aviatrix ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Diego Benlliure, © 2023. Pop.
Track: The Tyger (03:49).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Expulsion Disorder — Belarus
From Dead Snow 2 ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Ambient.
Track: Love and Harmony Combine (02:59).
Links: Amazon, Apple, YouTube.
Fake Native — USA
From Third Axis ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Vincent Heyn, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Tyger (03:56).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
False Indigo — USA
From Timbuktu ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Rock.
Track: Tyger Tyger (03:53).
Link: Spotify.
Feder, Rachel — Unknown
The Divine Image ; for voice and piano.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Track: The Divine Image (02:52).
Link: YouTube.
Flash Cut Ltd. — Germany
From Reloaded at the Musquash Studios ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.5699609 Records DK, © 2023. Rock.
Track: Poison Tree (03:02).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
FlaxHubzzy — New Zealand
From Notes from F.H. ; for voice, drums, and synthesizers.Flergins House, © 2023. Electronic.
Track: Poison Tree (03:12).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Flowerbender — USA
From Mines of Minolta ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Clod and the Pebble (05:14).
Link: Bandcamp.
FreshAppleSlices — Unknown
Luvah ; for synthesizers.3710856 Records DK, © 2023. Electronic.
Track: Luvah (03:13).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
Gardner, Drew — USA
From The Return ; for bass, drums, and saxophone.Astral Spirits, © 2023. Jazz.
Track: The Human Abstract (09:48).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Glorious Shocking — USA
From News from the Spirit World ; for voice, synthesizers, and mandolin.Independent, © 2023. Folk/avant-garde.
Track: Book of Ahania (05:40).
Link: Bandcamp.
Gokurakujodo — Japan
From Minna no Kokugo ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Gokurakujodo, © 2023. Heavy metal.
Tracks: Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright [instrumental] (00:59); Poem Tiger Richo (04:33).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Note: “The Tyger” is translated into Japanese.
Gribbles — UK
From Digressions ; for voice and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Ambient.
Track: The Echoing Green (04:54).
Links: Bandcamp, YouTube.
Gula — Netherlands
From Birds of the Apocalypse ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Heavy metal.
Track: Laughing Song (07:01).
Links: Bandcamp, YouTube.
Harp — USA
From Albion ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Bella Union, © 2023. Folk/indie.
Track: Daughters of Albion (03:02).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Hejwowski, Czcibor — Poland
From The Perfect Frame (Original Soundtrack); for guitar and synthesizers.Studio Groch, © 2023. Ambient.
Track: The Tyger (00:59).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Henderson, Derek — Scotland
Piping down the Valleys Wild ; for voice, piano, and recorder.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Track: Piping down the Valleys Wild (02:48).
Link: YouTube.
Hyperaustra — Argentina
From The Fall of All Pride ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Interstellar Pulse, © 2023. Post-black metal.
Track: Lustful Starvation [“Auguries of Innocence”] (06:36).
Links: Amazon, Apple, YouTube.
Iacob — Bulgaria
From Ars longa, vita brevis ; for voice and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Dark ambient.
Track: A Divine Image (09:06).
Link: Bandcamp.
Jayy Babyy — USA
From Shadows ; for synthesizers.Jayy Babyy Music Production, © 2023. Electronic.
Track: Tyger (02:28).
Links: Amazon, Spotify.
Jesters-Oxford — UK
From Since Ancient Times ; for voice, guitar, bass, and violin.4926623 Records DK, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Angel (03:47).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
JŌRA — Latvia
From Tatata ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.JUURA UN EZERI, © 2023. Folk.
Track: A Poison Tree (03:31).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Karfagen — Ukraine
From Passage to the Forest of Mysterious ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Antony Kalugin, © 2023. Experimental.
Tracks: Mysterious Forest, Pt. 1 (14:04); Mysterious Forest, Pt. 2 (04:21); To Those Who Dwell in Realms of Day (02:19); Mysterious Forest, Pt. 3 (04:16) [all “Auguries of Innocence”].
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Kireya, Viktor — Russia
How Sweet I Roam’d ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Pop/electronic.
Track: How Sweet I Roam’d (03:29).
Link: Bandcamp.
Kobori, Nobuya — Japan
From 100000 Original Piano Songs Vol. 115 ; for piano.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: Tharmas (01:30); Urizen (01:28); Urthona (01:31).
Link: Bandcamp.
Kostecki, Radoslaw — Unknown
From Madame’s Untold Tale ; for piano.Radoslaw Kostecki, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: Cradle Song (01:00); Night (01:52); A Poison Tree (01:18); The Tyger (02:14); London (02:10); Auguries of Innocence (00:49); And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time (Jerusalem) (01:10).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Kovač, Boris — Serbia
From Garden of Love ; for voice, piano, and synthesizers.702237 Records DK, © 2023. Rock/pop.
Track: Garden of Love (02:46).
Links: Apple, YouTube.
Loopsel — Sweden
From Öga för öga ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Mamma’s Mysteriska Jukebox, © 2023. Folk/pop.
Track: Poison Tree (03:07).
Links: Amazon, Spotify.
Lord Misery — UK
2023-09-07 ; for voice and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Experimental/electronic.
Tracks: Introduction + Earth’s Answer (08:30); The Human Abstract (03:09); Night (20:04).
Link: Bandcamp.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From The Artillery Man ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: To Thomas Butts (04:37).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From The Bluebird ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: The Little Girl Found (04:54).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From An Enigma ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: London (02:11).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From The Little Girl Lost ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: The Little Girl Lost (04:46).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From The Night Wind ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell (02:15).
Links: Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From Proverbs of Hell ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Tracks: Echoing Green (02:18); The Smile (01:39).
Links: Amazon, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From The Raven ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: On Another’s Sorrow (04:16).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From To a Withered Rose ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: The Voice of the Ancient Bard (00:45).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From Where My Boats Go ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Track: All Religions Are One (03:53).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
The Lost Poets Band — Sweden
From The Wolf at the Door ; for voice, guitar, and keyboards.Poetvox, © 2023. Folk/rock.
Tracks: The Lamb (02:25); The Tyger (02:59).
Links: Apple, YouTube.
Luce, Ismaele — Unknown
From Away ; for synthesizers.Always Record, © 2023. New age.
Tracks: The Tyger (02:34); Burning Bright (02:49).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Luo, Chuyi — USA
Earth’s Answer ; for voice and piano.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Track: Earth’s Answer (04:51).
Link: YouTube.
Marinheiro Porre — Brazil
Chimney Sweeper ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Nightbird Records, © 2023. Heavy metal.
Track: Chimney Sweeper [Experience] (07:11).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Mark-23 — Russia
Wilhelm Blake ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Mark-23, © 2023. Rock.
Tracks: Весна [“Spring”] (03:00); Сон [“A Dream”] (02:31); Древо яда [“A Poison Tree”] (02:28); Mуха [“The Fly”] (03:20); Little Black Boy (03:31); Ангел [“The Angel”] (02:59); Song of Innocence [“Introduction”] (02:13); Сад любви [“The Garden of Love”] (02:03).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Note: All the songs are sung in Russian, including those with English titles.
Martyrxxs ft. Benyam Seifu — Mexico
From Narraciones del derrumbe ; for voice and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Electronic/avant-garde.
Track: El libro de Urizen de William Blake (04:53).
Link: Bandcamp.
Mast Year — USA
From Knife ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.Grimoire Records, © 2023. Black metal.
Track: Urizen (01:03).
Links: Apple, Bandcamp, YouTube.
Mathew, Diya, and Delvin Antony — Unknown
Ah Sunflower ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Musically Touched, © 2023. Folk/pop.
Track: Ah Sunflower (02:23).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Matriarch — Australia
From Medusa ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Rock.
Track: Garden of Love (02:45).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Mehldau, Brad, and Ian Bostridge — US/UK
From The Folly of Desire ; for voice and piano.Pentatone Music, © 2023. Classical.
Track: The Sick Rose (01:43).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Memory Lane — France
From Memory Lane ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Catapulte Records, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Pride of the Peacock (04:36).
Links: Amazon, Spotify.
Miller, Andrew — USA
From Soli deo gloria ; for SATB choir.Mark Masters, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: The Tyger (03:35); The Lamb (03:37).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Milonaut — Germany
Poison Tree ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Milonaut, © 2023. Rock/jazz.
Track: Poison Tree (05:48).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Moorshead, Jem — UK
An Island in the Moon ; for synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Ambient/electronic.
Track: An Island in the Moon (08:41).
Link: SoundCloud.
Murray, Jesse — Canada
The Tyger ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.Jesse Murray, © 2023. Pop.
Track: The Tyger (03:19).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Mutantes Melancólicos — Argentina
From A partir del silencio de un paraíso artificial ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Gustavo Madrid, © 2023. Indie.
Track: El tigre (05:52).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Note: “The Tyger” is translated into Spanish.
Nieto, Moisés — Spain
From Genshin Impact: Piano Constellations ; for piano.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Track: A Memorable Fancy (03:16).
Links: Amazon, Apple.
Nuvfr — Unknown
Zoas ; for synthesizers.NvvV, © 2023. Electronic.
Track: Zoas (03:20).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Okechukwu, Innocent Ndubuisi (Innocentorum) — Nigeria
From Journey to Africa (2); for SATB choir.3549881 Records DK, © 2023. Classical.
Track: A Cradle Song (05:36).
Links: Spotify, YouTube.
Parry, Gareth — UK
From Dreaming Music ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.3031940 Records DK, © 2023. Pop/indie.
Track: Little Boy Lost (04:15).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Penitent — Bulgaria
From Songs of Despair (Remastered); for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Independent, © 2023. Dark/electronic.
Track: On Another’s Sorrow (03:50).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Pitts, William — USA
From W. T. Woodson High School, 2023 Band Assessment Performance ; for wind ensemble.Kane Media Group, © 2023. Experimental.
Track: Auguries of Innocence (12:49).
Link: Spotify.
Plumas, Xavier — France
From Rose-amère ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.La Lézarde, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Tyger (04:01).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Podkayne, fille de Mars — France
From Podkayne, fille de Mars ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and accordion.Talweg, © 2023. Folk.
Track: Echoing Green (03:01).
Link: Bandcamp.
The Poe Underground — USA
From Neptune (Dreams of Venus); for guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Seven Muses Media, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Tyger (02:21).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Poppa DuPree and One Hot Momma — USA
A Poison Tree ; for voice and guitar.4258798 Records DK, © 2023. Folk.
Track: A Poison Tree (02:51).
Link: Spotify.
Poulsen, Morten — Denmark
From A Clear Midnight, Choral Works I ; for SATB choir.Morten Poulsen, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: Laughing Song (03:05); A Cradle Song (04:36); The Lamb (03:54).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Quantum Prana — Finland
The Tyger XXIII ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Quantum Prana, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Tyger (04:28).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Ratatosk — UK
From Detachment; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.1191301 Records DK, © 2023. Folk.
Track: Some Are Born to Sweet Delight (04:40).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Bandcamp.
Rejoice O Death! — Poland
From The Struggle ; for guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Rejoice-Records, © 2023. Dark ambient.
Track: A Marriage of Heaven and Hell (10:11).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
The Revenants — USA
From The New Colossus ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Night Harvest Recordings, © 2023. Rock/indie.
Track: A Poison Tree (05:17).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Richmont — Unknown
From The Poison Tree ; for voice, drums, and synthesizers.Montefiore Enterprises, © 2023. Rock.
Track: A Poison Tree (03:43).
Links: Amazon, Spotify, YouTube.
Rodriguez, Rodrigo — Argentina/Spain
From Ambient Sketches ; for synthesizers.2279945 Records DK, © 2023. Ambient.
Track: Auguries of Innocence (06:59).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Rope River Blues Band — USA
From Some Song(s) ; for voice, guitar, and drums.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Divine Image (02:56).
Link: Bandcamp.
Sablo, Pablo — USA
From It’s the Poetry, Man! ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Pop/electronic.
Tracks: Eternity/The Question Answered (05:45); An Ancient Proverb (04:17).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Sakellariou, Peny — Greece
Tyger ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Peny Sak Records, © 2023. Rock.
Track: Tyger (03:01).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
Sandosa, Adam — Poland
From Alraune ; for synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Dark ambient.
Track: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (03:52).
Link: Bandcamp.
Schwarzer Tag — Germany
From Remains ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Schwarzer Tag, © 2023. Dark ambient.
Tracks: Mad Song (04:27); The Sick Rose (04:04).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
The Second Nature — Italy
From Masaic ; for guitar, bass, drums, and violin.Walkin’, © 2023. Jazz/folk.
Track: The Garden of Love (04:31).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Sedlacek, Carla N. — USA
From Memories: Art Songs of Youth and Nature ; for voice, piano, and flute.Carla N. Sedlacek, © 2023. Classical.
Track: Piping down the Valleys Wild (02:40).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Silent Melancholy — Ukraine
Memory, Hither Come ; for voice and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Pop/electronic.
Track: Memory, Hither Come (03:37).
Link: Bandcamp.
The Singing Loins — UK
From Jazzy Angels ; for voice, banjo, and keyboards.Spinout Music, © 2023. Folk.
Track: Some Are Born (03:36).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Slusaw, Blake — USA
From Illusionism ; for bass, drums, piano, and saxophone.4842716 Records DK, © 2023. Jazz.
Track: The Sick Rose (05:53).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Smirnov, Andrey — Russia
From Роз Шум ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: Ангел [“The Angel”] (03:41).
Links: Amazon, Apple.
Note: “The Angel” is translated into Russian.
Sneed, Ryan — USA
From Beef Honey ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.Sneedless Music, © 2023. Pop/rock.
Track: Little Fly (03:47).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Solidities — Australia
Correspondences #1; for guitar.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Ecchoing Green (02:35).
Link: Bandcamp.
Sound Allowed — Australia
Auguries of Innocence ; for guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Electronic/jazz.
Track: Auguries of Innocence (03:31).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Superglam — Belgium
Hear the Voice of the Bard ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Superglam, © 2023. Synth pop.
Track: Hear the Voice of the Bard (04:53).
Links: Bandcamp, YouTube.
Super Hero/Super Villain — USA
From We Won’t Forget ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Gitmo Music, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Tyger (04:22).
Links: Apple, Spotify.
Swaffer — Unknown
Tyger ; for piano.Swaffer, © 2023. Classical.
Track: Tyger (03:19).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Talamana — USA
From Cloud Call ; for voice, guitar, bass, and drums.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: America a Prophecy (07:09).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Taylor, Nestor — Australia
From Children’s Garden ; for SATB choir.Stichting Donemus Beheer, © 2023. Classical.
Tracks: Cradle Song (02:53); Oh! Sunflower (01:58).
Links: Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
TC — UK
From Hard Times ; for voice and guitar.Independent, © 2023. Folk.
Track: The Chimney Sweeper [Experience] (07:07).
Link: Bandcamp.
Temple Ov Saturn — USA
From The Soul’s Prism ; for synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Dark electronic.
Track: Infant Joy (05:20).
Link: Bandcamp.
This Is Tomorrow — Luxembourg
The Human Abstract ; for bass, drums, and synthesizers.Vinyl Digital GmbH, © 2023. Hip-hop/electronic.
Track: The Human Abstract (02:41).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Tiessen, Zac — Canada
Auguries of Innocence ; for orchestra.Independent, © 2023. Classical.
Track: Auguries of Innocence (02:49).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Togges Band — Sweden
From To the Muses ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, saxophone, and synthesizers.Bioquest Records, © 2023. Pop/indie.
Track: To the Muses (05:31).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Troppo, Lennon — Spain
The Tyger (Choir Music); for SATB choir.Lennon Troppo, © 2023. Classical.
Track: The Tyger (02:10).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Trowland, Morgan — Unknown
To the Evening Star ; for voice and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Ambient.
Track: To the Evening Star (05:53).
Link: SoundCloud.
Vespero — Russia
From Insomnia Liventure ; for voice, guitar, bass, violin, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Folk/indie.
Track: Tharmas (08:20).
Link: Bandcamp.
Via Kosmische — Poland
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; for synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Dark ambient.
Track: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (03:52).
Link: SoundCloud.
Weldon, Sam — UK
The Human Abstract ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.731753 Records DK, © 2023. Rock.
Track: The Human Abstract (03:10).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
The Winter Tree — USA
From Earth Below ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Andrew John Laitres, © 2023. Pop.
Track: The Garden of Love (03:11).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Wisborg — Germany
From Seconds to the Void—The Remixes ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Danse Macabre Records, © 2023. Gothic rock.
Track: The Sick Rose (05:43).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Withington, Grant — USA
How Sweet I Roam’d ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizers.Independent, © 2023. Pop/electronic.
Track: How Sweet I Roam’d (02:41).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.
Yu, Man-Ching Donald — Hong Kong
From Recalling from Dreams ; for voice and strings.Stichting Donemus Beheer, © 2023. Classical.
Track: [The] Divine Image (07:14).
Links: Amazon, Apple, Spotify.