New single: Unnamed Unseen + Music Video

Unnamed Unseen is the first single from my solo album Memory Islands. Written for Hardanger fiddle and electronics, it is inspired by a line from Robert Macfarlane's book Landmarks about nature words falling out of our language. “Once they go unnamed they go to some degree unseen. Language deficit leads to attention deficit.”

The music video was made by Marry Waterson, woven with hand painted film and drawing on themes of nature and fading/lost memories.

Download & Stream single: https://ffm.to/unnamed-unseen
CD/DL/Stream album: https://bfan.link/memory-islands

New Album: Memory Islands (released on Bigo & Twigetti)

My new album Memory Islands is available for preorder today (1 September) on the Bigo and Twigetti label. Available on CD and via all download and streaming platforms.

The music on the album - written for violin, hardanger fiddle and electronics - explores the strange landscape of memory and the spirit of place. The sound world a mixture of experimental soundscapes, drones, and contemporary classical but punctuated with melodic/folky lines on the violin.

It includes a recording of my grandfather reminiscing about his experiences and lost years as a Navy seaman in World War II (By the Time I Got Back Pt 1); along with pieces inspired by the how the brain reboots after waking from a coma (Delta), a line from Robert Macfarlane’s book Landmarks about nature words falling out of our language (Unnamed Unseen) and a quote from the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact in the moment the onboard computer HAL 900 confronts his digital ‘mortality’– all memories erased (Will I Dream?).

Most of the sounds heard on this album are created from the violin (sampling, processed through effects, detuned, extended techniques).

Singles:
September 1st - Unnamed Unseen
September 15th - Delta
September 29th - By The Time I Got Back, Pt. 2 (Focus Track)

Cover artwork by Janaina Mello Landini