Homo Work

Gavin Friday's much-awaited new album, Ecce Homo, his first in over thirteen years, is being released via BMG.

Gavin Friday's much-awaited new album, Ecce Homo, his first in over thirteen years, is being released via BMG. It is a work that heralds a fuller, more sonorous form of expression for this ever-evolving artist, one that transcends the prescribed conventions of genre, breaks new ground and brooks no compromise. Where loss, filial grief, remorse and existential disquiet were the more conspicuous tenets of Friday's 2011 release, Catholic, the presiding spirit of Ecce Homo is altogether freer, less shackled, and sovereign - indomitable, too.

The dramaturgy of the project is inspired by the life philosophy of Hildegard von Bingen as is preserved in her musical and literary work. On the one hand we can perceive Hildegard as a mystic and saint woman, on the other hand as a strong abbess and politically gifted person. Those two points of view are the most important in the interpretation of her concept of human being. Her music and visions are full of humanity and divinity as well, it inspires me to call the concert programme “Ego sum homo” (I’m the man).