Hilary Woods - Acts of Light - Red - VINYL LP

Hilary Woods - Colt [VINYL LP] date 06/08/2018

This recording traces the heritage of Romanticism in postmodern times. It's vintage opener is the first Cello Sonata by Brahms, a pinnacle of unspeakable but mind-controlled beauty. Martinu's second Cello Sonata, written in American exile in 1941, revisits Brahms's old world, but with wider tonality, more expressive shifts, and the extra rhythmic pulse of Czech folk music. In Schnittke's Cello Sonata of 1978, which builds on Shostakovich's emaciated style, the ghosts of the desolate closing Largo usher in the death throes of Romanticism. This is a captivating album that draws it's fascination not from the uniformity of the pieces included, but from their distinct differences. Born in Poland, Kacper Nowak began playing the cello at the age of eight. A year later, he was the laureate of the Liezen Cello Competition in Austria and entered the Fryderyk Chopin School in Poznan, in the class of Danuta Taczanowska. Having won several national and international competitions, he became a member of the National Foundation for Gifted Children. Since September 2014 Kacper has been studying at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, under the direction of Gary Hoffman where he received a scholarship by Haas-Teichen.

Working across song, sound, writing and analogue filmmaking, Irish artist Hilary Woods' diy work ethic cultivates practices that are in call and response to each other. 2023 will see the of Hilary's third full length record on Sacred Bones Records. Recorded and mixed along the west coast of Ireland and in various other locations, including the Procathedral in Dublin and field recordings recorded nomadically throughout her time spent travelling through the north and south of Spain. InchActs of LightInch is a deeply sonic and sensory rite of passage comprised of nine raw, cavernous, hypnotic dirges, riven with languorously elongated double bass and sacred choral drones. Press / editorial support from Pitchfork, Bandcamp, Brooklyn Vegan, The Quietus, Uncut, Long Live Vinyl, Boomkat, Line of Best fit, Loud & Quiet, DIY, and more. Hilary Woods will be touring UK & EU extensively around album this autumn. Target women experimental spaces, dark and ambient, deep listening, drone playlists.