New album 'At Sea' is out on Fluid Audio
At Sea.
I’ve once again worked with Aaron Martin but this album is much more freeform than 2020s The Sound Of Someone Leaving- which was very direct emotionally. I asked Aaron to be as free and experimental with his playing as he wanted and the results are wilder and more elusive, weaving in and out of focus. Aaron’s cello is blended with layers of looped accordion, synths and seascapes recorded in my new home on the South East Coast of England- a place that is bright, breezy and where giant seagulls roam the sea front like packs of wild dogs. One of the main influences on the music is Virginia Woolf’s novel ‘To The Lighthouse’ and I wanted to capture a musical version of her ‘internal narrative stream of consciousness’. The album also has elements of spoken word embedded in the layers of sound, text I wrote myself and read by actor Lizzie McPhee.
The title- At Sea- refers as much to the psychological state of ‘not being on stable ground’ as it does to the all consuming environment within which the music is set.
Here are some Soundcloud previews and a link to the pre-order page
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Preview tracks on Soundcloud
At Sea
The new album with Aaron Martin.
Available now from Fluid Audio