Zennor by Heavy Cloud

Capturing improvised performance, sound poetry and audio palimpsests, Zennor is a record of the rediscovery of interior and exterior map fragments and the subsequent dismantling of these into altered shapes and stories.

Taking inspiration from the self, the bric-à-brac collage compositions of Graham Lambkin and the sonic manipulation of experimental turntablism, Zennor looks both into the soul and out towards the horizon.

The village of Zennor lies between St. Ives and St. Just, on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall. Alphabetically, the parish is the last in Britain. Its name comes from the Cornish name for the local saint, Saint Senara.

Zennor became a metaphorical location for the Zennor Sound Group to workshop sonic ideas and share and cross-thread histories as a form of therapy, by way of a lofi radio play across timelines and ley lines.

The pieces that became Zennor were performed and recorded over a number of years and edited during the spring of 2023.

Tracklist

1.	Preparations	1:53

2.	Zennor In Situ	3:33

3.	Life Cuts	2:56

4.	St. Senara	3:23

5.	Therapy Session	1:31

6.	Tender Is Still the Night	2:43

7.	Untitled Audience Landscape	3:13

8.	Blue Kilmore Cove	2:20

9.	The Found Piano	3:17

10.	Fog Recital	1:47

11.	Smudged Songs	2:50

12.	Amalveor Downs Rehearsal	1:48

13.	Tired Nothingness and the Last Days of Emptiness	7:18

14.	Zennor Sound Group Work Tapes (Bonus Track)	7:12

Credits

released May 1, 2023

Zennor | 13 tracks | 38 mins + bonus track

Zennor was made with: voices, texts, environmental field recordings, domestic bric-à-brac, cassette player, turntable and records, virtual DJ software, soft synths, the found piano, and sounds from the Heavy Cloud archive repurposed by the Zennor Sound Group.

Thank you to the people who generously shared their time to be interviewed and to the spaces that allowed themselves to be recorded. A special thanks to the history and locales of Zennor, Cornwall, and the conceptual ZSG.

Music and artwork by Heavy Cloud

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