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Artist:	SEMPER, JONTY
Title:	The 1 Minute Silence From The Funeral Of Diana, Princess of Wales
Label:	LOCUS +/CHARRM (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	CH 60997

"This is the first part of a 2-part project by British artist Jonty Semper. The 1 minute silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales was recorded in Hyde Park by Jonty Semper on 6 September 1997 as the live BBC television broadcast of the ceremony was shown on a big screen in the park. All around the world people similarly observed the ritual unfold, a communal gathering unprecedented in contemporary times: levelling divisions,uniting through grief and contemplation, loaded with specific current social and political meanings. The single places the contemporary public silence observed during the mourning of Diana's death in context with the second part of the project, Kenotaphion, produced as a result of researching, locating and anthologising all the existing archive recordings of the two minute silences from the Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London."

Artist:	SEMPER, JONTY
Title:	Kenotaphion
Label:	LOCUS +/CHARRM (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	KEN 01CD

"This is the second part of a 2-part project by British artist Jonty Semper. Kenotaphion is a double compact disc album of the newsreel and broadcast archive recordings of the 2 minute silences from Remembrance Sunday services dating back to 1926. Kenotaphion was produced as a result of researching, locating and anthologising all the existing archive recordings of the two minute silences from the Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London. There is, in fact, very little silence in the recordings as they are location recordings from the Cenotaph and include the chiming of Big Ben striking eleven o'clock as well as the ambient sound from the immediate vicinity. Some of the earlier newsreel recordings also contain voice over commentary. The title of the album, Kenotaphion, is taken from the Greek words from which the word cenotaph is derived and literally means 'empty tomb'."

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