Erland Cooper has shared his new piece ‘Walking Through The Heather’.
The Scottish producer dug deep for his latest work – literally. Erland Cooper recorded ‘Carve The Runes Then Be Content With Silence’ about three year ago, before hiding the tapes on an Orcadian beach.
Allowing nature to take hold, the tapes were eventually uncovered, and the natural degradation has become part of the wider whole.
Set to be released on September 20th, the album brings together many of Erland’s touchstones – the passing of time, our relationship with nature, a sense of place – while also exploring new territory.
Take new piece ‘Walking Through Heather’. Stripped from the album, it’s a moment of pause, an aspect of repose – unfurling with real grace, it displays the quiet confidence that has become Erland’s hallmark.
With a painterly touch, there’s a palpable quality of visibility running through this piece. Erland comments…
I write music inspired by the natural world. So the idea for this project is that really I’m just sharing my process with the natural world. It’s a meditation on time, on patience, on value, and art itself. To reveal we now have music, in all forms of sound and colour, means we can now celebrate nature’s wild contribution to composition, as a sort of collaborative act of resilience or survival of the arts and nature alike…
Related: Critical Distance – Erland Cooper’s Quiet Majesty
Photo Credit: Samuel Davies
