UCC Harlo - Topos LP
Stream & download: https://uccharlo.bandcamp.com/album/topos

Annie Garlid's second album as UCC Harlo is a meditation on the concepts of habitat and berth, comparing the nostalgia for an idealized nature of the past with a creative understanding of both urban and rural land in the present. "Topos" means "place" in Greek and also connotes a literary theme. 

The album was motivated by Garlid's move back to the USA in 2018 after spending almost a decade in Europe; when she returned to her home country she was struck by its simultaneous familiarity and foreignness. During the pandemic, she was rooted in a single time zone for almost two years in a row, driving up and down the coast between New York and Maine. She became increasingly tethered to and entangled with a place that was both in her memory and in front of her eyes, more precarious than ever. The album reimagines the topography of the USA, sketching out a map free of man-made borders where metropole and wilderness are blurred into one another. 

Based in New York City, Garlid is a writer, musicology scholar and classically-trained musician who has collaborated with Caterina Barbieri and Emptyset, as well as being a member of the Holly Herndon Ensemble. 

Album art: Andrea Smith, Trinity 2021 

Track ‘Forest Floor’ written with Thea Garlid (vocals), Rebecca Lane (flute), Eve Essex (saxophone). 

Mixed and mastered by James Ginzburg. 
Published by Multiverse Media Publishing 
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UCC Harlo - Topos(SUB047)

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Subtext Recordings is a Bristol founded / Berlin based label curated by james ginzburg.