The shore sang of ghosts, by Steve Ashby & Vicki Hallett

The shore sang of ghosts

by Steve Ashby & Vicki Hallett

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1.	If she never sang again 10:24	buy track
2.	In threaded memory 07:31	buy track
3.	Dusk settled still 10:46	buy track
4.	Grasp beyond the wire 13:16	buy track

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Hallett and Ashby met in 2017 during a field recording residency located on the Mmabolela Reserve in Limpopo, South Africa, and quickly discovered a shared interest in improvised performance, field recording, and electronic manipulation of sound to enliven a listening experience through a connection with its place of performance. As time passed, a curiosity grew towards composing works that would explore the intersection of each player’s style on their principle instrument, clarinet and guitar respectively. With a hemisphere’s worth of distance between them, Hallett and Ashby began trading tracks via the internet to produce what would become The shore sang of ghosts.
The shore sang of ghosts is a collection of pieces focused on the transients of memory as it drifts from present to recollection. With the movement of time, older events mingle amongst a continually updated catalogue of new experience, each imparting a new perspective of previous relevance and understanding. Combined with the folklore of Mmabel’s origin, Hallett and Ashby took this idea of memory drift and remembrance of space as inspiration for the pieces that make up The shore sang of ghosts.

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released April 30, 2020

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Vicki Hallett VIC, Australia

Vicki is a musician, sound artist and field recordist. Her process explores the space between hearing music as a cultural experience and the aural vibration within the being. The ongoing quest for sonic immersion and creative compositional devices with authenticity and inspiration leads both Vicki and listener through an organic landscape of sound. ... more

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