Name: 01 Snow Clamp by Ruth Wall Harp in For a Quiet Friday
Duration: 4 min 28 s
Description: Harp, synth and electronic dance beats, composed by UK Minimalist composer Graham Fitkin for FITKINWALL - harpist Ruth Wall and Graham Fitkin. Features on FITKINWALL album Still Warm.

For a Quiet Friday

Worlds One is the first in a series of extended, ambient works for meditative listening and mindfulness. Sounds evolve slowly and organically, without ever relying upon exact repetition. Though digitally mixed and mastered, all source material benefits from the richness of its analogue origins.

Originally conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings, Worlds has become instead a work with multiple meanings; the project, like the world we live in, turned upside down over the past two years by climate crises, pandemics, population displacements and ever more uncertain futures. It may be seen as a sonic space into which to escape, or through which to connect more holistically with who we are and what we wish to become.

A studio quality recording of this piece (48Kh/24bit) can be purchased for £10. Please get in touch via my website contact page so that I can send you BACS details: chrisbestmusic.com/contact

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Worlds One

Harp, synth and electronic dance beats, composed by UK Minimalist composer Graham Fitkin for FITKINWALL - harpist Ruth Wall and Graham Fitkin. Features on FITKINWALL album Still Warm. 

01 Snow Clamp

Taken from ‘Music for the Motion Picture Victoria’ – released by Erased Tapes on June 15th, 2015
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ABOUT:

Nils Frahm has always said that he’s just waiting for something real special when being asked if he would ever score the music for a film. And that’s exactly what German director Sebastian Schipper presented to him with his one-take feature ‘Victoria’. Filmed in Berlin, Victoria’s plot sees a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town, but their wild night of partying suddenly turns into a bank robbery as the music changes from techno to subdued piano sounds.

For the recording session at Studio P4 in Berlin, Frahm enlisted the help of long-time collaborator and cellist Anne Müller, violist Viktor Orri Árnason and ambient artist Erik K. Skodvin of Deaf Center on guitar.

‘Victoria’ won the Berlinale Film Festival prize for Best Cinematography and has also received seven nominations including Best Soundtrack for the Deutscher Filmpreis – Germany’s highest movie award, and will be released in cinemas across Germany on June 11th with plans to release it in the UK and other countries soon. 

More info: nilsfrahm.com · erasedtapes.com

Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

Them

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from the album 'where all is fled' available 9/25

steve hauschildt 'vicinities'

From the FitkinWall album 'Lost' - release date autumn 2015. Performers Ruth Wall (harps)and Graham Fitkin (moog, autoharp, red box), composer Graham Fitkin. www.fitkinwall.com

Face - excerpt

Highwire - excerpt

Carousel - excerpt

From Graham Fitkin's solo percussion work 'Chain of Command', written for Joby Burgess and Powerplant

Chain of Command Excerpt 1

from 'III' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den246
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/bersarinquartett]

Melancholia. Longing. It is difficult to speak about these moods or states of the mind without invoking stereotypes. In ancient medicine, melancholia was considered to be one of the four temperaments, matching the four humours. In fact, melancholia, meaning "black bile" in Ancient Greek, was thought to be caused by an excess of this very body substance. By contrast, in more modern interpretations, literates and Freudians relate many variations of longing to the one primordial longing, the desire to return to one's mother's womb. In this context, the womb is considered to be the place of absolute comfort and cosiness, of total bliss. Thus it should not be surprising that to many of us melancholia is a mood which we like to invoke and to maintain, we like to envelop ourselves in it like in a warm blanket. Our brain and our sensory systems appear to be made for perceiving and emotionally responding to music in a very immediate fashion. Consequently music is the obvious drug for all of us melancholia-addicts. However, there is a thin line between melancholia and sadness, and music which is meant to be melancholic too often crosses this line by far. Only very few artists succeed in avoiding this crossing, and in creating music which is melancholia in its most pure form. It is safe to say that BERSARIN QUARTETT - the electronic music project of Thomas Bücker - is one of them.

After his successfull selftitled debut in 2008 and the sophomore "II" in 2012 - album of the month in many magazines and in numerous "Best of the year" lists - Bücker returns with his third BERSARIN QUARTETT album "III", due for release 6.11.2015 on Denovali Records. Much like his two predecessors, III is a pure paradox. It is the creation of a perfectionist, an adamant control freak. Every element, be it a note, an ambience layer, a string arrangement, a field recording, a baseline, a vocal (Clara Hill on Track 11) or a beat, is meticulously modified and then assigned its place in Bücker's vast but still minimalistic arrangements. Thus, superficially Bücker's pieces seem to radiate a certain mechanical bleakness. However, there is a unique reduced warmth and liveliness emerging from these stainless compositions and transcending them. This transcendence is precisely the point where Bücker ironically looses control over his creations. In contrast to the first two BERSARIN QUARTETT albums, III offers a few darker shades and succeeds even further in narrowing down the arrangements to the absolute essentials without loosing the characteristic grandeur of Bücker's sound. Whereas BERSARIN QUARTETT's debut was merely a description of melancholia in its most pure form, III maybe even goes as far a defining what melancholia really is. It is the only emotion in the vast spectrum of human states of mind which one can bear forever. 

Bersarin Quartett - Sanft verblassen die Geschichten

Pole Star

Gillan Na Drover

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First conceived nine years ago and recorded over two weeks at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Wiltshire in August, its a delight to present the Fitkin Band Album.

Formed of some of the UK's top musicians, the double album of works by composer Graham Fitkin will be released in November 2016.

www.fitkin.com

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Fitkin Band 2016 Instrumental Excerpt

Untitled - 14-04-11

Y-Gog

Ruth performs with FITKIN on bray harp and lever harp.  In 2016 composer pianist Graham Fitkin brought his stellar line-up of musicians together to record two new albums at Real World Studios near Bath. The music is fast, loud, with a hint of gypsy bawdiness and as The Guardian put it ‘a delight that defied all fashionable labels and simply conjured its own whirlygig of ideas with such spontaneity and control’.

Vamp

01 Vamp

Field Rotation - Acoustic Tale 9

Best known for her work with Goldfrapp, Kathryn Tickell and Graham Fitkin (as part of FitkinWall and Fitkin Band).  Ruth has performed worldwide and recorded for EMI, Mercury Music, Sony BMG, GFR and Universal.  Her solo albums include The Uncommon Harp & The Three Harps of Christmas. FITKINWALL albums include Kaplan, Still Warm & Lost.  Their new album Uist was released in 2024.

‘Immaculate playing’ BBC Music Magazine
‘Virtuosic’ The Guardian

Ruth plays Concert harp, medieval Gaelic wire strung harp, buzzing Renaissance bray harp, Scottish lever harp and electro harp.

01 Snow Clamp

Ruth Wall Harp

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