Chaos Emeralds by Elsa Hewitt
Presenting my eighth album release, Chaos Emeralds.
It started out as a breezy collection of experimental beats that I casually threw this Sonic The Hedgehog reference at very early on. It came to embody a great deal more in the end, as it travelled with us through a few years of change and transformation.
Half of the lyrics were improvised, and the other half were poems that i wrote around the same time but didn’t think to join with them until random moments over the following three years.
The tracks were made predominantly from synths and spontaneous field recordings as well as guitar, vocal processing and resampling of my incredibly rusty flute-playing.
The initial recordings that spawned the album I made in and around a shared house in south London that my housemates and me were lucky to be living in when we were locked down. The best thing about this place was probably the big, thriving garden, where I spent a lot of time writing and doing yoga.
The album was conceived at a time when the traffic had slowed almost to a complete stop, and you could hear nature in detail, free from the never-ending chorus of pollution that normally crowds it. The air felt clearer, the sounds felt juicier, the light felt more penetrating. The quietness was very peaceful and the local wildlife appeared to be flourishing. The songs came to embody a primitive stage of rebirth, like bright sunlight shining into cluttered spaces where dusty objects of the past were in a state of disintegration. They followed on from the dark winter of LUPA, rising like the spring, fragile but resolute, absorbing, expressing and responding to the world like a baby, experiencing the world with heightened senses.
Tracklist
| 1. | Legend | 3:33 |
| 2. | Unimaginable Pain | 3:52 |
| 3. | Avery Albino | 2:32 |
| 4. | Citrinitas | 5:16 |
| 5. | Heartful Complex | 3:02 |
| 6. | For My Confusion | 2:34 |
| 7. | The Realms | 5:15 |
| 8. | Let Them In | 3:07 |
| 9. | Violet Rest | 3:11 |
| 10. | Reliquary | 1:11 |
| 11. | Wash The Sea | 2:45 |
| 12. | Anahata | 3:00 |
Credits
Written, composed, produced and mixed by Elsa Hewitt
Cymbal recordings on track 11 by Matt Davies
Vocal adlb on track 12 by Nanagucci
Some wood tapping on Reliquary by Kirk Barley
