Breaking Clouds by Lawrence English
I recently came across a small batch of the Vernacular double CD edition, which was curated by Yui Onodera, and it prompted me to revisit some works from that period. Yui had reached out to me in the later 00s and invited me to contribute a piece to a collection that would eventually become Vernacular.
It was a timely invitation, sonically speaking, as I was beginning to develop the harmonic distortion approaches that would eventually become the backbone of The Peregrine and also Wilderness Of Mirrors. It gave me a chance to test out some of these approaches and I am always grateful for those opportunities.
Around that time I also completed a piece Hotaru, which was created for a project David Daniell spearheaded with Thrill Jockey, as a means of fundraising for relief following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Both these pieces capture a certain transitory quality, a meditation on things to come and they act as a pre-echo of a form that came to dominate a lot of my work during that decade.
Tracklist
| 1. | Breaking Clouds Apart | 7:16 |
| 2. | Hotaru | 5:28 |
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Lawrence English. Philosopher of listening. Room40 Honcho. Generally questioning living, dying and everything else in-between.