EARTHSCAPES
Onoma Research
CD, 32-page full-colour hardback book or streaming sound + PDF download of the book.
AVAILABLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Earthscapes is a collaboration between poet Steve Xerri and Terry Burrows – author, musician, co-founder (as Yukio Yung) of cult art-pop group The Chrysanthemums and collaborator with figures including R. Stevie Moore and Asmus Tietchens.
The resulting 11 tracks draw on a rich palette of sounds both acoustic and electronic, where guitar, strings, mellotron and granular synthesis sit alongside field recordings : throughout, the poet’s voice is woven into the music rather than placed at its centre, becoming part of a shifting interplay of sound, rhythm and atmosphere.
Working with an extensive archive of his own photography, Xerri further created a sequence of composite images that mirror the layered construction of the music itself. The resulting illustrations suggest stills from films that do not exist – glimpses of narratives that inhabit the space between the poems and their musical settings.