Product Description Tarik O'Regan's title work A Celestial Map of the Sky, here performed by a children's choir with the Hall, is a vibrant work with propulsive,syncopated rhythms contrasting darker moments of refl ection. The work is inspired by two woodcuts engraved by German polymath Albrecht Drer in 1510 that are amongst the oldest known printed European star charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres. A deep-rooted interest in North African traditional music (Tarik's family are from Morocco and Algeria) shapes two of the orchestral works on this album. Ra and Chabi are not ethnographic studies but are infl uenced by Algerian folk music forms.Latent Manifest is an ingenious expansion of a single gesture from a Bach sonata, magnified to create an entire universe of orchestral colour. To close the album, Fragments from Heart of Darkness draws on the music from O'Regan's chamber opera Heart of Darkness, based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad. The bonus download track, Now fatal change, for countertenor and violin, is a reworking of material found in Chabi and is set to the same text by Nahum Tate that Purcell used for Tell me, some pitying angel. About the Artist Tarik O'Regan was born in London but spent some of his childhood in Morocco, where his mother was born, and in Algeria. He has lived in New York City since 2004.Tarik's current projects include a full-scale opera about the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera for 2019. His work A Letter of Rights will be performed by Chamber Choir Ireland in Belfast, Limerick and Dublin 23-26 February.