The Voyager Clarissa Connelly SKU: CCMUSIC03LP Barcode: 5051142008275 15.00 £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: CCM Released Date: 2nd April 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The Copenhagen-based, Scottish-born composer Clarissa Connelly’s music is evocative of the whimsical and almost child-like, tainted by an undercurrent of dark sensuality, disquietude and existential dread. Characterized by complex arrangements, big compounded chords, as well as a broad array of instruments, effects and sounds, her songs orient the listener towards utopian beauty that lie somewhere between the baroque and the primordial. With an experimental approach to vocal techniques, her voice can manifest benevolent fay-like creatures as easily as banshees and maleficent spirits singing melodies that retain the accessibility typically associated with pop-music. The compositions are lyrically and aesthetically grounded in Celtic folklore and Scandinavian vitalism. The threshold between the mundane and the fantastical are accentuated in her work, in such a way that the pursuit for – and the ability to recognize – real beauty in the world become anchored in the realm of work, everyday anxiety, motivation, human brilliance and failure. With forthcoming album The Voyager, Connelly sets out to not only to study the relationship between nature and music, but also its relationship with time. She says: “I’ve always been especially excited about times in the north before Christianity came, and how the Pagan culture and Christianity became intertwined in people through rituals and formations in the landscape – burial mounds, passage graves, dolmens, etc.” She continues: “In some way, it’s very difficult to translate nature into an understandable movement of change. Looking at a mountain I often view a still picture of time – a moment right now – but sometimes, I can look at the mountain and see millions of years of change and movement. I believe that this point of view can be assisted by art and music. In a landscape ornamented with ruined Viking fortresses or ancient burial mounds, I find that I, for whatever reason, seem to be able to perceive time and comprehend history (the history of nature and culture) as a series of changes in a more salient way.” It is here that The Voyager derives so much of its power. It roots itself in history, mythology, capable of intertwining and unravelling both past and present. Songs such as Holler and The Hills Are Crying – opening and closing tracks on the album, respectively – conjure images of these ancient Danish sites, offering something more than just a fluid, long-forgotten way, and instead a tangible reverie that can educate, engage and thrill in equal measure. Connelly explains: “I have the idea, that the mystical and fantastical nature of these olden barrows and ruins can kindle a more dynamic and historically informed perspective. I think that an understanding of time as a movement is articulated when looking at the landscape in this way and can maybe bring us out of our little bell jar, and into a greater experience of life as a whole.” The Voyager is released in conjunction with an app Vandringen (released 27 september 2020), conceived and created by Clarissa Connelly – along with the contributions of 21 other Danish musicians, painters, sculptures, performers – which highlights special ancient Danish locations, not viewable on Google Maps. These locations are presented with local knowledge and a number of them are interpreted for the modern day by the creatives involved. Connelly concludes: “I am very eager to write music that sounds like something that is happening now but has also happened a very long time ago. I have always found it fascinating to view history through changes in the landscapes around us, and therefore I started created this app and wrote this album.” Artist Clarissa Connelly Genre Folk Label CCM Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Holler Bargain Walden Theresa Latitude Longitude Mother And Daddy The Fallen Land Shallow Water A Grain Of Sand The Hills Are Crying Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Clarissa Connelly and more from Folk View Product Quick View Clarissa Connelly World of Work Leftfield / Experimental | Warp | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th April 2024 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Clarissa Connelly World of Work £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP370 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fly My Pretties The Studio Recordings Part One Folk | Loop Records | 1LP Released 25th October 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fly My Pretties The Studio Recordings Part One £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Loop Records SKU: LPV089 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gallery The Wind That Shakes the Barley Folk | Guerssen | 1LP, Includes Insert Released 1st May 2014 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gallery The Wind That Shakes the Barley £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Guerssen SKU: GUESS130 Formats: 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 1st May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cherokee Rose Buckskin Folk | Don Giovanni | 1LP Released 11th March 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cherokee Rose Buckskin £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG221 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tall Heights Pretty Colors For Your Actions Electronica | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th October 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tall Heights Pretty Colors For Your Actions £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2273C Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Izaak Opatz Extra Medium Folk | Mama Bird Recording Co. | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th July 2022 £18.00 - £19.00 Select options Izaak Opatz Extra Medium £18.00 - £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Mama Bird Recording Co. 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