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News: Erland Cooper Reveals Music Has Survived On His Buried Tape And Releases First Two ‘Unearthed’ Singles

The first two singles from a surviving tape that was buried underground by Scottish composer Erland Cooper 3 years ago are released in line with the Summer Solstice. This follows a triumphant…

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News: Erland Cooper releases his chorally collaborative ‘Egilsay’ EP: see a making-of film and find out more about his debuting silent movie score performance

MAGISTERIAL Orcadian composer Erland Cooper has released his second choral collaboration with the Shards ensemble, an EP focussing on one of Orkney’s northern islands, Egilsay, featuring four tracks of and…

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Album review: Sebastian Plano – ‘Save Me Not’: a portal to a more ecstatic, more ethereal sonic safe space

ARGENTINIAN composer, cellist, and producer Sebastian Plano is set to release his sixth album and his second for one of the blue-chip labels of modern composition, Mercury KX, this Friday;…

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News: Erland Cooper signs for Mercury KX, buries his latest album in the soil of Orkney as a three-year time capsule with a treasure hunt ensuing; watch a short film

SIGNING today with one of the leading modern compositional imprints, Decca/Mercury KX, Orcadian composer Erland Cooper has marked the occasion in a fascinating if not entirely expected way. He already…

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Meet: LYR on their new music, post-pandemic life, working with Simon Armitage, and more

THE genre-splicing LYR, comprised of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician and vocalist Richard Walters, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick J Pearson, fuse their three distinct but complimentary musical selves into…

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See: Ólafur Arnalds and Benjamin Hardman’s short film for the cyclical beauty of ‘New Grass’, capturing the macro wonder of moss

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds has collaborated visually with the photographer and film-maker Benjamin Hardman to produce a short film full of natural wonder to accompany the track “New Grass”, taken…

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Track: LYR share ‘Redwings’: unique and profound

LYR, an acronym of Land Yacht Regatta, have recently shared their latest emotionally evocative musical amalgamation Redwings, following the recent release of their collaborative track with Prefab Sprout’s Wendy Smith,…

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Track: LYR share ‘Winter Solstice’ featuring Prefab Sprout’s Wendy Smith, and announce UK tour dates

Formed through a passionate creative drive and mutual appreciation of each other’s work, LYR is a musical machine that reverberates an incredibly singular effusion; the triumvirate of Sigur Rós-like ambient…

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