Lamorna as a collection of four pieces that came together in the space of a weeks recording in Lamorna, Cornwall. The recordings we’re made in the Lamorna valley, the cove, in the woods and also within the Iron age Boleigh Fogou which is an underground structure over 2000 years old. The Fogou derives from the Cornish for Fou or Vou meaning cave.
Lamorna has been an area that has for a long time inspired me. It’s very close by to Newlyn and Penzance which historically has produced and inspired generations of artists. Closer to Lamorna itself it provided a home and inspiration to the artist, poet, author and Occultist Ithell Colquhoun, a truly inspirational woman.
The landscape generally and the psycho-geography of the place has also palyed a large part in these recordings, the ancient stone circles, old stone crosses, beautiful and mysterious villages and the magnificent coastline. This area exudes a spirit of places, it is very much alive and leads one into looking at things from an animists perspective.
In terms of the sound of the finished music, it was recorded largely on location using acoustic guitar, bowed guitars, moog prodigy, my voice and a sprinkling of effects where required. It relied on the sounds of the places themselves, the trees, river and Fogou in particular, and also the sonorities that these places provided when instruments and voices we’re sounded and recorded there. The mixing process was based on taking these raw ingredients and sculpting them into a finished whole, with the place as the focus to represent a week in the life of Lamorna, a poem to the place itself.
“The result is a slow tide of strings, ambient vistas, and delirious harmonies that echo, then dissipate into the eponymous landscape. From the inner triumph of “Rosemerrynwood” to the tense and pulse-quickening modern composition “Bo-Lech” and the buoyant, living title track, Lamorna is a remembered call from an ancient place.” Fluid Audio
Lamorna as a collection of four pieces that came together in the space of a weeks recording in Lamorna, Cornwall. The recordings we’re made in the Lamorna valley, the cove, in the woods and also within the Iron age Boleigh Fogou which is an underground structure over 2000 years old. The Fogou derives from the Cornish for Fou or Vou meaning cave.
Lamorna has been an area that has for a long time inspired me. It’s very close by to Newlyn and Penzance which historically has produced and inspired generations of artists. Closer to Lamorna itself it provided a home and inspiration to the artist, poet, author and Occultist Ithell Colquhoun, a truly inspirational woman.
The landscape generally and the psycho-geography of the place has also palyed a large part in these recordings, the ancient stone circles, old stone crosses, beautiful and mysterious villages and the magnificent coastline. This area exudes a spirit of places, it is very much alive and leads one into looking at things from an animists perspective.
In terms of the sound of the finished music, it was recorded largely on location using acoustic guitar, bowed guitars, moog prodigy, my voice and a sprinkling of effects where required. It relied on the sounds of the places themselves, the trees, river and Fogou in particular, and also the sonorities that these places provided when instruments and voices we’re sounded and recorded there. The mixing process was based on taking these raw ingredients and sculpting them into a finished whole, with the place as the focus to represent a week in the life of Lamorna, a poem to the place itself.
“The result is a slow tide of strings, ambient vistas, and delirious harmonies that echo, then dissipate into the eponymous landscape. From the inner triumph of “Rosemerrynwood” to the tense and pulse-quickening modern composition “Bo-Lech” and the buoyant, living title track, Lamorna is a remembered call from an ancient place.” Fluid Audio
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