February 19, 2026
This show is aspiring to be a genealogy of music. While we cant have recordings of neanderthals playing bone flutes and banging rocks together. We start with 9 interpretations of the first songs mostly from the west, ever committed to a translatable musical notation.
Track Listing
1.
"Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal"
c.1400 BCE Modern-day northern Syria
2.
"Delphic Hymns"
c.128 BCE Ancient Greece
3.
"Seikilos Epitaph"
100 CE Modern-day Turkey
4.
"Oxyrhynchus Hymn"
201–300 CE Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
5.
"Phos Hilaron"
201–300 CE Greece
6.
"Aulos - assolo per launeddas"
c.100-200 BCE Ancient Greece
7.
"Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence"
301-400 CE Greece
8.
"Te Deum"
387 CE Roman Empire
9.
"Sama Veda Chanting"
c.1200 BCE Modern-day India