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When the Heart is Broken - Single

by Mark Davenport

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This is the fifth single release from Mark Davenport's album "Joyful Sighs & Soulful Hymns." The "Single" version has been remixed and mastered and fuses the two album track versions. In addition to Mark's vocal and piano work, the single features guitarist David Snider, Pedal Steeler Daniel Jones, drummer Christian Teele, and viola da gambist Wendy Gillespie. Following the concept of the other songs on Davenport's CD, which draw on Renaissance models, "When the Heart is Broken" is based on a 16th-century madrigal by Jacques Arcadelt.

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When The Heart Is Broken - Single
©2015 Words & Music by Mark Davenport (ASCAP)
On a madrigal by Jacques Arcadelt (ca. 1504 – ca. 1567)

Ahimé, Ahimé, dov e’l bel viso
Where is the sweet face
Where love once made her nest
And where lay all my hopes?
Where is the beautiful face
That held the whole world
With such grace?
Who’s hiding it from me?

Oh luck, oh fortune
Oh greedy death
Blind, pitiless
And stone cold deaf

Where are the tears, when the well is empty?
Where is the comfort, when the bed is cold?
Where is the hope, when the mind is weary?
Where is the love, when the heart is broken?

Oh where, is my treasure now
And who has stolen my heart?
Where is it hiding?
Where is she
Who no more answers me?

Oh luck, oh fortune
Oh greedy death
Blind, merciless
And stone cold deaf

Where are the tears, when the well is empty?
Where is the comfort, when the bed is cold?
Where is the time, when its echoes are endless?
Where is the light, when there’s only darkness?

Where is the hope, when the mind is weary?
Where is the love, when the heart is broken?

credits

released August 11, 2015
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Musicians:

Mark Davenport – vocals, acoustic piano

David Snider – acoustic nylon and steel string guitars, dobro, electric bass

Daniel Jones – pedal steel guitar

Christian Teele – drums/percussion

Wendy Gillespie – tenor and bass viola da gamba

Recording Info:

Vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar and pedal steel guitar recorded at Landmark Sound in Louisville, CO by Mark Davenport.

Electric bass and dobro recorded at Snider Sound Studio, Paonia, CO by David Snider.

Viola da gambas recorded at Farm Fresh Studios, Bloomington, IN, by Jake Belser.

Drums/ percussion recorded at Far and Away Studios, Boulder, CO by Geoff Gray.

Produced and mixed by Mark Davenport/Landmark Sound, Louisville, CO.

Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, CO.

Cover Collage Image © 2015 by Mark Davenport: “Poppies of Cortona” with “Head of a Woman” by Leonardo da Vinci.

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