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Woven / Ground

by Geoff Diego Litherland

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  • 20 page full colour publiction that includes a download link to the album; images of recent paintings, weave patterns, a text by Christopher John Thornhill and notes on the music and paintings by Geoff Diego Litherland. Limited edition of 100
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the surface formed of coiled shell and fin-spine exposed reefs of hardened time * the deer gleam and glitter and everywhere eyes of moonlight guide the weary hours to the altar of the present * ground cascades rock fountains * human art and nature river the hill approach the present in stone in wood in thought * gritstone escarpment the edges veins and rakes shales friable frost blanket mire featherbed bog wind flickers sparse lights of jacob’s-ladder slow ascent of dissolved hours * the shallow hip rough grazed the spar veins * channel shallow twilight fires porous fibres draw up the shadow pooling below * earth drawn upward in shivering lines to soft sprays of sky * comfrey and Andromeda dissolved in surface weathered * the grace of weighted bodies solidities transposed to sky * stratified horizons of bast fibres * descents, clefts depths conferred by sleights of light and shadow Footed in the sloping field, softened by threads of streaming water. The fixed mists secretly quickened. * the condensed light of the hydrous sky descending by diagonals * hand following hidden hand scribing time
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Decay Waves 08:20

about

Like his current artistic practice, the music has been made in collaboration with others and is inspired by his natural surroundings.

The music started by decoding weave patterns into acoustic guitar motifs and chord progressions, creating a structural fabric for further layers of piano, guitar, synths, field recordings and loom sampled percussion to inhabit. Christopher John Thornhill added expansive atmospheric bowed acoustic guitars, violas, synths and loops to the tracks. The album also features the vocals of Patrick Shannon Whelan, Robert Squirrell on trumpet, Angharad McLaren reading a text by Christopher John Thornhill and a sample from the film 1968 16mm film Painting, The Creative Process.

The music is indebted to and inspired to the sonic landscapes that Litherland usually listens to while painting. The generative ambient music of Eno and Budd, the process led minimalism of Reich and Reilly, the eclecticism of Chicago post-rock and a nod to Miles Davis. All these combine to create an intricate and layered sonic journey that opens out on each listen.

The album is made up of 6 tracks, each of which merge seamlessly into the next. A slow concept album that seeks to bring us closer to the subtleties of the natural world around us.

The music was made to be a soundtrack for walking in the woods or making in the studio.

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released December 18, 2020

Geoff Diego Litherland
acoustic guitars, keys, synths, loops & field recordings - all tracks

Christopher John Thornhill
bowed acoustic guitar, viola, synths, loops - all tracks

Patrick Shannon Whelan
vocal patterns on track 1

Robert Squirrell
trumpet and horns on tracks 2

Angharad McLaren
spoken word on track 5

produced, mixed and recorded by Geoff Diego Litherland
mastered by Andy Wright

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Geoff Diego Litherland England, UK

Geoff Diego Litherland is a Mexican born artist living in Derbyshire.
His music acts as a a counterpart to his artistic practice, which involves growing and weaving flax into patterned linen canvas to paint on. Both are slowly and collaboratively crafted and aim to foster a deeper more interconnected relationship and awareness to our ever-evolving natural environment. ... more

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