Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection. Lattimore picked selected harps tracing the instrument’s evolution from 1728 to 1873, while Barwick plays various analog synthesisers, including the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5, with additional playing by co-producer Trevor Spencer. It’s a seven-track work of intertwining vintage from two different ages, also suffused with an ambient melancholy, improvised and recorded in Paris, but also created soon after spate of 2025’s California wildfires, which directly affected both musicians as residents. It’s more of a sensual, cinematic work than one of precise lyrics, words often indiscernible, ghostly and awash in electronic droning, looped synth chords and acoustic pizzicato plucking. Two of the tracks are two lovely interpretative covers – Rachel’s Song composed by Vangelis for the original Bladerunner movie (with rain sound effects), andTemple of the Winds written by Roger Eno, but as well as The Four Sleeping Princess, particular standouts are the bookends - opener Perpetual Adoration and the eight-minute closer Melted Moon. A release of otherworldly, mesmeric, interweaving beauty. Out on InFiné.
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