Listen to ‘Mountains Of The Heart’, the second track taken from Laurence Pike’s ambitious new album The Undreamt-of Centre – an evocative contemporary reimagining of the requiem mass.

“The track began its life as a rhythm that I sang into my phone while walking somewhere in the Australian bush,” Pike explains. “As with most of the album, it was really made through a process of listening, and in this case, resisting adding anything extraneous for as long as possible – just letting the drums propel the music. As with the album title, the name is a phrase taken from Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’.”

Pike is launching the project with two performances at the Phoenix Central Park cultural centre in Sydney with the VOX Sydney Philharmonia Choir on Thursday 22nd August. The ballot is still open for free entry to the performances.

Watch this clip of ‘Mountains Of The Heart’ from rehearsals, and watch this space for news of the next stage…

The Undreamt-of Centre will be released September 6th and is available to pre-order now on limited edition Forest Green vinyl LP, CD and digital.