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Circle is an Oxford-based music collective

Circle is an Oxford-based music collective Circle is an Oxford-based music collective Circle is an Oxford-based music collective

 Please listen to our new album 'Like this' and see if you can feel its romantic dream-like quality.

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circle@circlemusic.co.uk

Circle is an Oxford-based music collective

Circle is an Oxford-based music collective Circle is an Oxford-based music collective Circle is an Oxford-based music collective

 Please listen to our new album 'Like this' and see if you can feel its romantic dream-like quality.

click here


circle@circlemusic.co.uk

Inspired by



A distinctive folk-choral sound.

Circle comprises six talented singers, collaborating with a host of guest artists and instrumentalists. Our tracks have been played on Scala, BBC Radio 6, JazzFM and many BBC radio stations, and the album was featured in the Guardian's list of top Christmas albums of 2020, and the Observer in 2021.


Traditional and contemporary song

As singers we apply our choral experience to both traditional and contemporary song. Our music also features the moving and lively tones of the kora, cornett, recorder, ebow, cello, nyckelharpa, saxophone and bassoon, not to mention the ancient and quirky 'crumhorn'. The result is a unique 'folk choral' blend that packs an emotional punch and is accessible to everyone.

'Like this', the new album

  

Why did we make it?

The new album from Circle is designed to whisk you away to a romantic, dream-like place, to delight your inner emotions and sooth your deeper places with instruments and song.

Some would say, its pure escapism, but we like to bring you beauty and texture, through an accessible, reimagined choral, world, and folk music.

Following Circle’s acclaimed first album ‘Songs from the Heart’, Circle continue drawing on unusual instruments, this time featuring both the mellifluous Kora of Kadialy Kouyate, a Senegalese Griot living in London, and Richard Thomas’ evocative, medieval Cornett, oft played in Monteverdi’s Vespers by his Quintessential Sackbut and Cornett ensemble.

Nor are we to overlook the evergreen ‘James Bowman’ who solo's on a new piece written for him ‘Like this’, by producer Ashley Goodall. 

Circle enjoyed making a positively mainstream choral album, incorporating even dance rhythms, an exotic song from Greece 'Sekeilos' sung by Livy Watson, the earliest known written song, in English for the first time for 2,000 years. The gentle ‘Tiree Love song’from Scotland with Kora accompaniment, or a ‘lusciously beautiful’ full version of the Renaissance Henry the eighth song ‘Green Grows the Holly’ with Cornett and Kora in an extended groove sequence. Not to forget Dominus Vobiscum by the Estonian Sisask, with the overlay of Kora and Ebow guitar and break out synth beats to a religious text, possibly a combo first!

Finally, a dramatic and romantic sweep of a finale sung by Harriet van der Vliet in ‘On your lips’, imagined walking down a grand staircase, written by Ashley.

We just love it and hope you can take the time to listen and play it….nonstop!


February 2022

Thrilled to release a new E.P, Hallelujah! Consisting of 3 original songs and an instrumental. Written in December and generally celebrating the Winter season, with 'Wintering' sung by Livy, Hallelujah with Harriet, and their soaring vocals. 

Here's the link to all digital platforms and a taster of the tracks.

 https://circle.hearnow.com/the-halleluja-ep

How to listen to Circle:

Buy our albums,'Songs from the Heart','Like this' and 'Halleluja'

You can buy our albums from this site, either as a CD, or digitally from iTunes music

One beautifully produced album costs

£10.00

Add postage and packaging for the UK

£2.50

Please note that purchases from overseas may cost more


To order a choir CD please email circle@circlemusic.co.uk

Please include your address. We will invoice you via PayPal and send a CD.


Download or stream 'Songs from the Heart' and from Sept 30th 'Like this'.

Streaming on Spotify, Amazon and Apple ITunes

Click here for links to the album 'Like this'

and to 'Songs from the Heart'

Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, Apple Music and all digital platforms

Circle, a music collective and choir to inspire

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