Artist : Sophie Hutchings
Album : Night Sky
Year : 2012
Genre : Classical
Quality : 211kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 43m
Size : 69.99mb
Label : Preservation
Catalognr : PRE036
Tracklist:
01. Half Hidden 8:21
02. In Light 2:50
03. Shadowed 6:41
04. Between Earth And Sky 7:44
05. Saber's Beads 3:06
06. By Night 5:29
07. The Near Side 6:30
08. Last Quarter 3:13
Releasenotes:
Night Sky is the second album from Sydney's Sophie Hutchings.
Pianist Hutchings found herself quickly aligned along a new pantheon of
neo-classical composers such as Peter Broderick, Dustin O' Halloran and Nils
Frahm when her debut album Becalmed was released in 2010, prompting much
critical praise worldwide, with MOJO Magazine declaring it a work that was
µstirring, vigorous,[and] grandly melodic÷. The album was listed in that
magazine╞s Top 5 Independent releases for that year and has continued to endure
and impress since.
Working yet again with The Necks' longterm engineer Tim Whitten, on Night Sky
Hutchings is subtly playful within the direct and emotive candour of her style,
making for an open and surprising journey throughout. More lush in scope than
Becalmed and augmented with harmonium, strings, percussion, woodwind and vocal
ambience, Night Sky reveals Hutchings' compositional style flowering with more
instrumentation and bolder intent. Balancing the beautiful fragility in her work
with a deeper sense of urgency creates a striking charge to Night Sky - a
compelling pulse that also encompasses a lightness of touch in parts making for
an album of many shades set within Hutchings╞ beguiling vision. The rarefied
atmosphere of Night Sky confirms Hutchings╞ standalone presence in the realm of
modern composition.
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