SHIELDING SONGS

Shielding Songs is a new choral album which released in June 2025. It is a beautiful and powerful mix of unrecorded work and new arrangements of some of my best known pieces. The Guardian have described it as “lusciously ethereal” and Blank Mag say it’s “luminous.”

I am immunocompromised and as such shielded for over two years during the pandemic. When I went through my choral works, I found that the same concerns arose time and time again- protection, sanctuary and a dogged determination to believe in the best of people, even through the worst of times. Now more than ever, we have to look after one another and I hope that this music brings hope and solace to listeners.

Vulnerability, the strength of human love, dignity and tolerance shines through the album, particularly in the anti-war requiem Perpetual Light, unrecorded since its premiere in 2011 at London’s Old Vic Tunnels. It encapsulates the driving themes of the album- that in the face of adversity and trauma, it is love and nurture that will hold us together.

This new album is a chance to experience these solemn yet soaring choral works, performed by the wonderful London Voices, who have previously worked with me on my world-famous game soundtracks.

Shielding Songs booklet