Garden in Summer - EP Julian Marshall feat. Avigail Tlalim

• 1 Garden in Summer 08:26
• 2 Sunlit Hour 04:45
• 3 Canopy 04:25
• 4 Yours is the Heart 04:35
• Total Runtime 22:11

Info for Garden in Summer - EP

Homage to Gertrud Kolmar: In his fascinating and scholarly tribute to Gertrud Kolmar, Philip Kuhn describes work that ‘is consigned to a no-man’s land floating somewhere between that still critical-lyrical innocence of Weimar and those unspeakable nightmares of Auschwitz’. This describes my reaction to her poem Summer in a Garden. I cannot hear such wonderful life affirming and powerful language without knowing what lies ahead for the poet.

The poet is in her garden with her lover almost lost in the sensual beauty of it. She looks to what ought to be the future but which we know, as she too might well have known, there was no future.

The metaphorical garden draws on the acid-induced dream worlds of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, but like all dreams, it is unstable. This is my sense of the magical creativity which still blinks at us from the Weimar times. As she gazes out, the colour degrades to black and white, and then to darkness beyond the reach of the image. We know the power that this darkness had in consigning her Germany and herself to utter destruction. A dark semi-human shadow figure is incorporated right into the vegetation that borders the summer garden at the foot of the picture. For now it is still, but this shadow has the potential to move.

Avigail Tlalim, voice

Julian Marshall
Shortly after graduating from the Royal College of Music in 1975, Julian’s professional life as a composer and songwriter took flight with the internationally successful bands Marshall Hain, The Flying Lizards and Eye to Eye.

His compositions include work for film and theatre and a new chapter as a composer of longer-form work (specifically, the cantatas Out of the Darkness and The Angel in the Forest), along with other, shorter, choral-based pieces, began in 2009. Out of the Darkness and The Angel in the Forest both feature settings from Welten, the seventeen-poem cycle by Gertrud Kolmar.

With the addition of two further works from the same cycle (the film, Yearning, and the spoken word and music piece, Garden in Summer), in October 2021 Julian founded The Welten Project. The project’s mission is to conduct research and produce a series of works inspired by, re-imagining or setting poems from Welten. For further details about The Welten Project, click here.

In addition to composition, Julian teaches and coaches creatives of all ages. He works with clients privately and is also a Teaching Fellow at ICMP, London.

Avigail Tlalim
is an exciting up and coming writer-director. Her slate of projects covers a diverse range of themes and Avigail has a number of upcoming projects in development with both US and UK based production companies. Avigail’s first feature, co-written by her and Emma Corrin (THE CROWN), is being developed with Killer Films and her second is in development with Orchid Pictures. With a background in acting, Avigail’s distinct directorial style makes room for the creative freedom and expression of the actor. Avigail’s short film SAUCE played at Aesthetica and S.O.U.L.

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