Martin Archer is best known for his long running collaboration with Julie Tippetts, producing a run of five diverse and experimental releases between 2009 and 2022. Claire McAllister is a jazz singer, composer and organiser based in the south of England.
The first song cycle collaboration by this new partnership is a highly adventurous and ambitious work, and one which explores a journey through dark places expressed in an improvisation-based language of strange sounds and textures, plus some unexpected left turns into electronic and choral music, before emerging from the woodland and into the morning light. A wide palette of strings, woodwinds, percussion and electronics is used to weave a highly individual musical spell designed to intrigue and entrance listeners.
That’s what the PR sheet says about it. I think it’s a fascinating and intriguing music and their performances on it are superb. On the album is a song I contributed with acoustic and electric guitar called “Let The Days Be Long”. I wrote the music many, many (many) years ago but Martin felt it had some merit and Claire added (beautiful) new vocals to it.
A link will be added when it goes live….
