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Fretwork have commissioned Orlando Gough (Birds on Fire) to use these scant facts to create a journey in sound that charts Drake's remarkable feat. Music from the 16th century prior to Drake's departure is woven seamlessly into a through-composed piece of music lasting 70 minutes. Drake stopped in Morocco, The Cape Verde Islands, Brasil, Argentina, Patagonia; passed through the Straights of Magellan (where he lost one of the sister ships, and another turned back, and where Drake's ship, the Pelican, was renamed The Golden Hinde); then up the coast of Chile, Mexico, California, across the Pacific Ocean to the Moluccas, Java, then round Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone and finally Plymouth in September 1580. Album Tracks 1. Introduction 1 36 2. Leaving Plymouth 1 47 3. The Song Called Trumpets 2 06 4. Preserve Us O Lord 0 28 5. Mogador 1 11 6. Berbers 3 56 7. In Nomine 1 57 8. Nuno de Silva 2 08 9. Cape Verde 1 52 10. Maio Santiago Fogo 4 08 11. Crossing the Atlantic 0 35 12. Fortune My Foe 1 08 13. Port Desire Patagonian Indians 1 06 14. Berimbau 4 12 15. Port Julian 1 30 16. In Nomine 3 39 17. Terra Incognita 6 57 18. The Complaint of a Sinner 0 54 1. De la Court 6 22 2. Preserve Us Lord Victoria Couper 0 25 3. Cacafuego 1 35 4. The Spanish Main 5 43 5. Albion 1 57 6. Miwok Indians 5 05 7. Crossing the Pacific 2 02 8. Ternate 0 46 9. Moors 3 48 10. Musical Paradise Simon Callow 0 29 11. Pavin 1 12 12. Java Simon Callow 0 22 13. In Nomine 2 29 14. Gamelan 4 28 15. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope 1 53 16. Reaching Plymouth Simon Callow 0 24 17. Psalm 100 0 31 18. The Song Called Trumpets (Reprise) 2 17
