HANNAH PEEL
SHARES ECOVOCATIVE
THE LATEST TRACK TO BE TAKEN FROM FIR WAVE
OUT ON MY OWN PLEASURE - 26 MARCH 2021
Hannah Peel has shared ‘Ecovocative’, following its premiere on Mary Anne Hobbs’ 6Music show. The new single is taken from the new album, Fir Wave, out on 26 March 2021 via Peel’s own label imprint, My Own Pleasure.
With its lustrous textures and simmering beats, ‘Ecovocative’ is a celebration of the detail in the cosmic, as we try to make sense of it and adapt to the increasing chaos of the world we live in. Listen to the track here: https://youtu.be/btJs0D8syXg
Hannah Peel explains, “I’m finding it harder to express all those huge feelings in words and lyrics like I used to. Instrumental music can conjure so much more and with this new track, I wanted to evoke those patterns in nature, celebrate the detail, the changes in light, play with primal shimmering energy, using obscure bells and the bubbling beats of electronic music.”
Like the smouldering lava from a volcano or a meteor’s fiery ash trail drawn through the Earth’s skyline, the artwork for the new single draws on Peel’s fascination with science, nature and the role of music within that.
The new album, Fir Wave, a sonic shimmer of textures and pulses that switches between raw atmospheric edges and environments, arrives with a fascinating history.
As Peel explains, “The specialist library label KPM, gave me permission to reinterpret the original music of the celebrated 1972 KPM 1000 series: Electrosonic, the music of Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop.”
Her process of re-sampling and generating her own new digital instruments, allowing for fresh inspiration in pioneering, experimental electronics from the early 1970s, is at the core of the album. Peel has made connections and new patterns that mirror the Earth’s ecological cycles through music.
Drawing on the Japanese Ensō design movement, the artwork is made by ceramics designer James Pegg, making fresh connections between the artwork, music and original creation of the work. The mixer / engineer TJ Allen (Bat For Lashes, Portishead and Anna Calvi) collaborated with Hannah Peel on the beat-driven tracks ‘Emergence In Nature’ and ‘Ecovocative’.
Known more recently for curating and presenting on BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks, the Northern Irish Emmy-nominated composer and producer’s work is ambitious and forward-looking, adapting and re-inventing new genres and hybrid musical forms. Recent albums include the solo electronic and pop work of Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; the electronic ruralism of Chalk Hill Blue, an album recorded with the poet Will Burns; and the space and the unparalleled vastness of Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band.
In 2019 she composed and recorded the soundtrack for Game of Thrones: The Last Watch which earned her an Emmy nomination for ‘Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series Or Special (Original Dramatic Score)’.
She scored documentary film about the ground-breaking photographer and model, Lee Miller, which aired on BBC 2 in May 2020 and has just been nominated for a UK Music Producers Guild Award for Soundtrack of the Year for her work on Channel 5’s The Deceived, one of Electronic Sound and The Quietus’s Soundtracks of 2020.
Her studio work also includes collaborations with Erland Cooper and Simon Tong as the band The Magnetic North, Paul Weller, John Foxx and The Maths, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (Erol Alkan, Richard Norris) plus the new Henry Darger inspired project Outsider featuring Philippe Cohen Solal of Gotan Project and Mike Lindsay of Tunng and Lump with Laura Marling.
Fir Wave tracklisting
Wind Shadow
Emergence In Nature
Patterned Formation
Carbon Cycle
Ecovocative
Fir Wave
Reaction Diffusion
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