The Whistling Girl, by Honor Heffernan and Trevor Knight

The Whistling Girl

by Honor Heffernan and Trevor Knight

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1.	Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom 03:24	buy track
2.	Godmother 03:15	buy track
3.	The Dark Girl's Rhyme/Epitaph 05:08	buy track
4.	Symptom Recital 03:09	buy track
5.	Resumé 04:43	buy track
6.	August 03:04	buy track
7.	The Choice 03:40	buy track
8.	Inventory/Dogma 04:14	buy track
9.	The Red Dress 06:14	buy track
10.	Dilemma 05:02	buy track
11.	Social Note/Interior/Frustration/Interview/Neither Bloody or Bowed 07:49	buy track
12.	Observation/Solace 04:48	buy track
13.	Salomé's Dancing Lesson 05:30	buy track
14.	Rhyme of an Involuntary Violet 03:20	buy track
15.	Honnor Heffernan and Trevor Knight - The Whistling Girl 03:28	buy track

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The acclaimed Irish duo of singer/actress Honor Heffernan and composer/keyboard player Trevor Knight (Auto Da Fe), present their new CD “The Whistling Girl”. The original and unique music composed by Trevor transforms the poems of Dorothy Parker into songs, using her witty, droll and sometimes heart rending lyrics with a lineup of highly renowned Irish musicians including Garvan Gallagher bass, Tom Jamieson drums, Ed Deane electric guitar , Bill Blackmore, Ray Martin trumpet and flugel horn, and Ciaran Wilde clarinet and saxes .

Each of the songs create individual tableaux or dream moments from Parker’s psyche, conjuring up images from her tempestuous life of outrageous celebrity, as founding member of the notorious Algonquin set in New York, and as civil rights activist in America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

The record was produced and engineered by Trevor Knight with initial engineering by Al Cowan at Sonic Studios Dublin and mastered by Daire Winston at Beechpark Studios, Co Dublin.
They are currently touring the show and have recently performed sell-out shows at The Irish Arts Centre in New York.

“I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn!”
(Dorothy Parker)

IRISH TIMES REVIEW
Honor Heffernan and Trevor Knight: The Whistling Girl – bringing Dorothy Parker’s dark wit to life **** The Irish Times
Cormac Larkin

It’s not like Honor Heffernan has anything to prove. For the last three decades, she’s been Ireland’s pre-eminent jazz singer, a riveting performer who matches emotional authenticity with musical craft.
Her previous solo recordings – such as 2005’s excellent Fire and Ice – have been song collections, snapshots of a talented singer slowly maturing, but here is something altogether more ambitious.
A set of original songs, based on the words of poet and society wit Dorothy Parker, The Whistling Girl is the love child of the singer’s new relationship, onstage and off, with Trevor Knight.
The ex-Auto Da Fé keyboardist’s settings of Parker’s ruminations on life and death, love and sexual politics, performed by a talented group of musicians, combine the arch strut of Weimar cabaret and the sass of Rocky Horror with 80s synth-pop and contemporary art-rock.
The results are pure theatre – New York critics raved when the live show debuted there last month – but even on record, Parker’s dark wit, Knight’s memorable tunes, and Heffernan’s unerring ability to make words come to life are a winning combination, making The Whistling Girl as fresh and original a collection of songs as you’ll hear this year.
Friday Dec 15th 2017 The Irish Times

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released October 1, 2017

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Trevor Knight Dublin, Ireland

Trevor Knight is a composer who specializes in multi-disciplinary and collaborative work.

Keyboard player in 1970’s with Irish bands Naima and Metropolis. In 1980 in Holland, he formed Auto da Fé with singer Gay Woods recording three albums and toured Ireland/ UK extensively.
He has recorded and performed with artists such as Paul Brady, Philip Lynott, Mary Coughlan, Roger Doyle and Donovan. ... more

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