Triple Dance

The crickets and the night sounds were recorded in The Gers, southern France, July 2021. Effie and Matt's house is in the middle of rolling corn fields. There are a lot of stars there, it's a place that makes you think a bit about existence and aloneness. 

The synth and string progressions were recorded over a couple of days, the last days of living in Berlin, mostly preoccupied in a conversation with a stranger on the internet, the sounds of which made the room empty whenever they stopped. 

All conversations can always stop, just as they always were, so suddenly lost, so suddenly found again.

After The Sound Stops And Then Your Voice Isn't There And It Is Just The Silence Of The Room

See the video here: https://vimeo.com/111110851

Lake Kinesis

Väinämöinen

Rapture

The sound of my empty apartment through Heil mic, recorded onto Aiwa tape deck. The tone seems to come from the pipes that run through the apartment. The coughing you can hear is one of my neighbours. It would appear that I live inside Eliane Radigue, as I always dreamed.

Five Minutes of Room Tone in My House

bad acid in paris

"A rare & tender sonic wonder"
BBC 3 Late Junction

Conrad Clipper is the pseudonym of an anonymous composer and multi-instrumentalist, with a focus on prepared, programmed & played piano. He lives and records in Berlin.

His debut album, Cycle of Liminal Rites, was released on Emily Elhaj's Love Lion label (Angel Olsen). This, his follow-up release, was recorded in Arizona and Berlin, and was mixed and mastered by Deerhoof's John Dieterich.

Conrad on the recording of Heron's Book of Dreams:

"Through the window at Arcosanti, I could see the desert, vast and transformative. Inside the room was an upright piano, a Fender Rhodes, and several synths. For five days - every morning, afternoon and evening - I sat in this room with the circular window and wrote the music you can hear on this record. Outside, intimate crowds gathered to watch some of the world's best musicians play unique and unrepeatable sets.

"Arcosanti, AZ is a prototype arcology designed by Paolo Soleri. Picture, if you can, moonbase architecture inspired by late-60s sustainable ideologies. Concrete atriums screened with poplar and olive trees. Shady, calm apses to keep the desert sun off. The low roar of the iron forge, casting the famous Arcosanti bells that are shipped around the world.

"Each year, FORM festival takes place there and selects 1,000 people to attend. I was not selected. Instead, I found myself there working as a photographic assistant to my friend, Tonje. During that week, through Tonje, I met Tortoise, Bill Callahan, The National, Grizzly Bear, Moses Sumney, Perfume Genius, Braids, Skrillex, Hundred Waters and many others.

"Whenever possible, and often during their live shows, I would sneak into the room with the circular window to write and record Heron’s Book of Dreams. This record, then, is for anyone who has found themselves watching as their dreams play out on a stage without them." 

Say The Name is the first single, and third track, from Heron's Book of Dreams. 

Releases April 30, 2021.

Vinyl, tshirts and digital from:

https://luaurecords.bandcamp.com/album/herons-book-of-dreams

III. Say The Name

This is the eponymous second single from the record Heron's Book of Dreams.

Releases April 30, 2021.

Vinyl, tshirts and digital from:

https://luaurecords.bandcamp.com/album/herons-book-of-dreams

"A rare & tender sonic wonder"
BBC 3 Late Junction

Conrad Clipper is the pseudonym of an anonymous composer and multi-instrumentalist, with a focus on prepared, programmed & played piano. He lives and records in Berlin.

His debut album, Cycle of Liminal Rites, was released on Emily Elhaj's Love Lion label (Angel Olsen). This, his follow-up release, was recorded in Arizona and Berlin, and was mixed and mastered by Deerhoof's John Dieterich.

Conrad on the recording of Heron's Book of Dreams:

"Through the window at Arcosanti, I could see the desert, vast and transformative. Inside the room was an upright piano, a Fender Rhodes, and several synths. For five days - every morning, afternoon and evening - I sat in this room with the circular window and wrote the music you can hear on this record. Outside, intimate crowds gathered to watch some of the world's best musicians play unique and unrepeatable sets.

"Arcosanti, AZ is a prototype arcology designed by Paolo Soleri. Picture, if you can, moonbase architecture inspired by late-60s sustainable ideologies. Concrete atriums screened with poplar and olive trees. Shady, calm apses to keep the desert sun off. The low roar of the iron forge, casting the famous Arcosanti bells that are shipped around the world.

"Each year, FORM festival takes place there and selects 1,000 people to attend. I was not selected. Instead, I found myself there working as a photographic assistant to my friend, Tonje. During that week, through Tonje, I met Tortoise, Bill Callahan, The National, Grizzly Bear, Moses Sumney, Perfume Genius, Braids, Skrillex, Hundred Waters and many others.

"Whenever possible, and often during their live shows, I would sneak into the room with the circular window to write and record Heron’s Book of Dreams. This record, then, is for anyone who has found themselves watching as their dreams play out on a stage without them."

VII. Heron's Book Of Dreams

Heron's Book of Dreams (vinyl): https://luaurecords.bandcamp.com/album/herons-book-of-dreams

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A rare & tender sonic wonder ~ BBC Radio 3 
Spartan, melancholic, compelling ~ Uncut Magazine
Enchanting ~ NARC
So lush ~ Drift
Delicate and beautiful ~ Norman
Entrancing ~ Resident
Delightful ~ Backseat Mafia
What kind of music is it? ~ my ma

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Prepared, programmed & played piano, tape manipulations, MIDI arrangements, processed guitar, acoustic ragas, melodica nocturnes, grimm lentos and Final Fantasy VII (disc 2) - when the world opens up.

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SEASON OF ICE / EXODUS

A little light in the head and bleeding prestige,
part fool to the court and out cold on the bed,
trouble awakens unravelled toeragged
and the voice says to start somewhere else, 
to head West.

With a handful of plasma and a gold-trimmed felt hat
and a cross desecrated by the scales on their back,
less is defined by a glance in the mirror
than keel drags begging a foot and their splinter.

"You'll grow wet in the belly o' death,
your songs occult in this oubliette."
Cut stone in winter as billows come breath
and parties are packed up and stripped to the bone.

Be ready before the cruelty of love,
The silence of court you hold in your hand,
The secular touch now craven corrupt,
The old laws and verse that turn into sand.

Be ready before departing to love,
Your words burned a mark on my hand,
It trembles a' gather the spooling dusk
And opens the door on an exodus.

C.Clipper

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