Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada - Japan CD Bonus Track

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Mary Lattimore

Description:

The first new album in nearly three years from one of the greatest ambient harpists of our time, Mary Lattimore, an instrumental storyteller who records life as it is and makes it into a sound image. Her critically acclaimed performance and Slowdive's Neil Halstead-produced 2020 album "Silver Ladders" was ranked among the best of the year by Pitchfork and others, and has attracted the likes of Sigur Rós, Real Estate, Julia Holter, and even Thurston Moore. Shining as one of the most sophisticated and robust in a decade-long catalog, yet rooted in improvisation, her work has been performed by the likes of Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slow Slowdown), and Rachel Goswell (The Cure). Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements, among many friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences.American harpist/composer Mary Lattimore's new album, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, is not only about the beloved hotel of the same name (a Croatian hotel facing renovation) through music that is exciting and emotionally resonant, but also a shared, universal loss Six vast pieces shaped by change that also speak about the Never the same, here a holistically evolving artist celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the transient, all that has lived and all that is lost with time. recorded and edited in unusually time-consuming sessions over two years, the work is a is rooted in improvisation while shining as the most sophisticated and robust of Lattimore's decade-long catalog. It finds him interacting with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, including Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski and Walt McClements."When I think about these songs, I think about fading flowers in a vase, melted candles, growing old, being on tour, things changing while you're away, how fleeting experiences are and you don't realize it until they stop happening, fear of the earth we are losing because of greed, fear of the earth we are truly living on. It is a paean to the art and music that have shaped it, and a reflection on the longing to be able to travel back in time, to remain sensitive and not sink into empty despondency." (1/4)

Tracklisting:

1.And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me (feat. Meg Baird And Walt McClements)
2.Arrivederci (feat. Lol Tolhurst)
3.Blender In A Blender (feat. Roy Montgomery)
4.Music For Applying Shimmering Eye Shadow
5.Horses, Glossy On The Hill
6.Yesterday's Parties (feat. Rachel Goswell And Samara Lubelski)
7.Mystery Lights (Bonus Track)