HOPE LP

Barcode: 880319728914 Tracklisting: 1. Sun Through Leaves 2. Swimming in the Isar 3. Fledglings 4. Seasons Past 5. Stillness 6. A Break in the Clouds 7. The Well Worn Path 8. Hands in the Earth 9. After the Rain 10. First Light 11. In the Long Grass --------------------------------- Hope is the new album by Newcastle-based Brave Timbers, originally the solo-project of multi-instrumentalist Sarah Kemp. This is their second album following 2010™s For Every Day You Lost, which quickly sold out its limited pressing. Sarah is joined on this album by Andrew Scrogham and together they recorded Hope in a Victorian concert hall in Salford, UK. Their music has also been featured on Second Language™s Minute Papillon and Music & Migration compilations alongside Peter Broderick, Vashti Bunyan, Hauschka and Dustin O™Halloran. Hope is a reflective, pastoral album that carefully builds its ambient landscapes. These eleven instrumental compositions demonstrate the minimal clarity of Brave Timbers, the piano and violin circling one another, creating a sense of space and terrain. There™s also dreamy timelessness within the music™s flow and weave, from Swimming in the Isar's gauzy atmospheres to the brittle warmth of The Well Worn Path. Hope has a purity and a simplicity which Brave Timbers bathe in a golden, spectral light. Press for: For Every Day You Lost (Second Language, 2010) A remarkable work; one of the most honest and beautiful creations of the |No year." Fluid Radio A cherishable escape from the modern world, tenderly played, expertly crafted." Norman Records