View basket “Alchemy” has been added to your basket. 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 Martin Carthy Martin Carthy Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 24th April 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martin Carthy Martin Carthy £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: 12T2207 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Son Of The Velvet Rat Solitary Company Folk | Fluff And Gravy | 1LP Released 13th January 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Son Of The Velvet Rat Solitary Company £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fluff And Gravy SKU: FNG068LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Judie Tzuke Jude The Unsinkable Folk | Blue Moon | 1LP Released 5th April 2024 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Judie Tzuke Jude The Unsinkable £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Blue Moon SKU: JTU002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sam Lee Old Wow Folk | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP Released 31st January 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sam Lee Old Wow £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP743 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View CocoRosie Heartache City Folk | Lost Girl Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes 7" Released 29th January 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders CocoRosie Heartache City £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Lost Girl Records SKU: LGR001LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes 7" Released Date: 29th January 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pentangle Basket Of Light Folk | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 21st October 2022 £28.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Pentangle Basket Of Light £28.00 Genre: Folk Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2353 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 21st October 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Various Artists Contemporary Guitar Folk | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 10th August 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Contemporary Guitar £27.00 Genre: Folk Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M226LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Polly Paulusma The Pivot On Which The World Turns Folk | Wild Sound | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 30th September 2022 £23.00 Select options Polly Paulusma The Pivot On Which The World Turns £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Wild Sound Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 30th September 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Deep Dark Woods, The Changing Faces Folk | Six Shooter Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd July 2021 £20.00 Select options Deep Dark Woods, The Changing Faces £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Six Shooter Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd July 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Eleanor McEvoy Gimme Some Wine Folk | Blue Dandelion Records | CD Released 4th February 2022 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eleanor McEvoy Gimme Some Wine £13.00 Genre: Folk Label: Blue Dandelion Records SKU: BDCD101 Formats: CD Released Date: 4th February 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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