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FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNS

Fiddling While Rome Burns is an upbeat collection of songs and tunes, both original and traditional, recorded live on acoustic instruments tuned to A = 432Hz.

This pitch is slightly lower than post-WWII standardised tuning A = 440Hz and some have attributed healing qualities to music using these frequencies. The mechanism involves sympathetic resonances between the music, the body’s biological rhythms, the self’s energy field, and the Earth’s movement in space. That’s all we’re allowed to say without antagonising the Medical-Industrial Complex...

The journey to recording this first album started in late 2021, a time when the world was taking a sharp dystopian turn. Observing that Rome is burning, we found that fiddling - especially when it accompanies singing and dancing - is among the best possible responses to a crisis.

Most of our songs and tunes began as single-take video recordings in beautiful loca-tions around Te Upoko o te Ika / the Head of the Fish (Wellington region). Each was performed at a local gig or folk club before finally being recorded in Stephen’s studio-bedroom in 2024.

Divine Pitch Musings
Divine Pitch Musings: Poor Honest Men
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Divine Pitch Musings: The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
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Divine Pitch Musings: The Trees They Do Grow High
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Divine Pitch Musings: The Dying Citizen
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DIVINE PITCH MUSINGS

In this series, we present a range of traditional and original songs in beautiful locations around Te Upoko o te Ika / Wellington region.

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DIVINE PITCH TUNES

Megan plays mainly Irish traditional tunes on the fiddle and tenor banjo, occasionally also the mandolin and tin whistle, accompanied by Stephen on the guitar or keyboard.

 

Some of our tune sets are designed for play-along-ability. All are in beautiful locations inspired by the tune names.

Divine Pitch Favourite Tunes
Divine Pitch Tunes: Martin Wynne's and Frank's Reel
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Divine Pitch Tunes: Fiddling While Rome Burns & The Joy of My Life
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Divine Pitch Tunes: Christmas Eve & The Drunken Landlady
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Divine Pitch Tunes: Catharsis & Swinging on the Gate
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DIVINE PITCH COMMUNITY

Children and teachers of the St James Spring Holiday Programme feature in this community project, sung at the Divine Pitch (A=432Hz).

"Hold On" is an old Gospel song also known as "Keep Your Hand on the Plough" or "Gospel Plough".

Arrangement - Megan Ward

Keyboard - Jonathan Berkahn

Bass - Bill Vella

Sound and Video - Stephen Riddell

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DIVINE PITCH LIVE

We filmed some of our acoustic gigs
and offer them as live recordings.

Divine Pitch Live
Divine Pitch Live: Acoustic Routes Concert 25.8.22
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Divine Pitch Live: AIO ki te Rangi Peace Festival 24.9.22
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STEPHEN'S PRIOR WORKS (440 Hz)

Stephen’s first album, comprising traditional and original songs, was released on 21st of August 2020 at the
Wellington Bluegrass Society.

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The most successful track from this album was Buddha of the Backwoods, a song he wrote during the COVID Lockdown of 2020. This track was collected in the Acoustic Rainbow sampler album and played on old time radio stations across the world.

SONIC SPACES

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KNOW

A single that Stephen wrote using his keyboard organ synthesisers in January 2021 to tell the story of a psychotic episode he experienced and the positive relationships
that helped him to heal from it.

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ACAPELLA

This album, released in December 2021, is a collection of traditional folk songs from the British Isles
and Ireland, sung unaccompanied.

 

These songs are sometimes romantic, ribald, and risqué,
presenting tales both natural and supernatural with a poetic style that seems to have fallen out of
favour in modern songwriting.

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