{"product_id":"path-of-enlightenment-artist-nat-birchall-quartet-format-vinyl-12-album-label-ancient-archive-of-sound","title":"Path of Enlightenment Artist Nat Birchall Quartet Format:Vinyl \/ 12\" Album Label:Ancient Archive of Sound","description":"\u003cp\u003epre order ships on release\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePath of Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003eArtist Nat Birchall Quartet\u003cbr\u003eFormat:Vinyl \/ 12\" Album\u003cbr\u003eLabel:Ancient Archive of Sound\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No:AAOS261\u003cbr\u003eBarcode:7141043768618\u003cbr\u003eGenre:Jazz\u003cbr\u003eNo of Discs:1\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date:24 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003eTrack Listings\u003cbr\u003eDisc 1\u003cbr\u003e1Red, Gold \u0026amp; Green\u003cbr\u003e2Amenhotep\u003cbr\u003e3Path of Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e4Menat\u003cbr\u003e5Visitation of the Spirits\u003cbr\u003e6Sphesihle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing the long-time core group\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Adam Fairhall – piano, Michael Bardon – bass and Paul Hession – drums.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in one session at Manchester’s Low Four Studio, engineered by Brendan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliams who also mixed and mastered the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome words from Nat about the music – “For this recording I composed some songs using more “exotic” (for want of a better word) modes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewhich I have always meant to explore in more depth but never really got around to very much. The  first song for instance, Red, Gold \u0026amp; Green, uses an Ethiopian scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title comes from the colours of the Ethiopian flag, which is also symbolic in Rastafari so has a kind of double meaning, like a lot of my songs.The title track, Path of Enlightenment, uses several modes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003estarting in a major key then moving to the Phrygian mode, then to a minor key. The piano solo is in a 28 bar minor blues form. Menat is based on a mode of the Byzantine scale,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m not sure if it has a particular name or not. Amenhotep was the name of several Egyptian pharaohs,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmenhotep IV being the original given name of Akhenaten.When I was writing this song it put me in mind of my song, Akhenaten, simply because they are both in 5\/4 time,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eso I decided to give this one a pharaonic name too. Spheshile is a Zulu word (and sometimes name) that means “beautiful gift”, the title was suggested by a friend from South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll this means nothing of course if the music doesn’t tell a story, I think the unfamiliar modes allowed us to speak of interesting things that may not have come to us otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, I chose to use the quartet format for this recording because it occurred to me that it tends to make for a more cohesive group sound, and it had been a while since we recorded this way.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"punk to funk heaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47694623244545,"sku":null,"price":28.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1837\/1115\/files\/path-of-enlightenment-artist-nat-birchall-quartet-formatvinyl-12-album-labelancient-archive-of-sound-3024370.jpg?v=1779715266","url":"https:\/\/punktofunkheaven.co.uk\/products\/path-of-enlightenment-artist-nat-birchall-quartet-format-vinyl-12-album-label-ancient-archive-of-sound","provider":"punk to funk heaven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}