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.

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Worlds One

Scottish songs and airs for voice and harps. Anne Lewis & Bill Taylor

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

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

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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Ruth Wall Harp