Blue Garden

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Cat No: SA071LP

Release Date: 25 November 2022

Label: Sa Recordings / Spitfire Audio Holdings

Packaging Type: Custom Packaging

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5024545974010

Genres: Pop

Description
On August 26th Gwilym Gold releases his third album, Blue Garden, on SA Recordings. Alongside the record we are pitching the beautiful Blue Garden.

Gwilym began playing improvised music as a pianist and may be fondly remembered as the singer and
keyboardist in psychedelic pop trio Golden Silvers but has since worked widely as a soloist. 2012 saw
the release of his high-concept solo piece Tender Metal which was composed and released using
Bronze; a new music technology which Gold created with producer Lexxx alongside Mick Grierson. Using
Bronze, a song is enabled to rebuild itself on each playback from the musical seeds and ground sown by
the writer. Music composed with Bronze is not restricted to just one playback possibility, it is a dynamic,
ever-transforming representation of itself where the artist builds a new model as part of each songâ€™s
writing process. Gwilym has since collaborated with artists such as Arca, Jai Paul, Philippe Parreno and
Nicolas Becker, introducing them to this new technology.

One of the hopes for Bronze is that it brings some of the characteristics of performance back into
previously inert musical documents, and alongside his work with Bronze, Gwilym has maintained a wide
performance practice. Performing recently alongside musicians such as Dave Okumu, Tom Skinner and
Lucinda Chua and collaborating with artists Eddie Peake and Holly Blakey. His two recent collections of
songs, A Paradise and Sky Blue Room, stem from this, the second being recorded almost entirely live in
three days alongside Okumu and drummer Dan See.

Blue Garden is Gwilymâ€™s first collection written and recorded entirely in solitude and he hoped to
unburden the process of anything beyond the most primary elements. Setting up a sort of hybrid harp in a
small isolated room, the aim was to let the songs flow out unadorned and record them as they were.
The only addition to the album is the accompanying sound of rivers and birdsong by sound recordist and
founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson. Gwilym started to play the new album alongside
Watsonâ€™s recording â€˜The Drinking Boyâ€™ which led him to reach out to Watson. Gwilym explains â€œI played it
to a friend once I had recorded it with Chrisâ€™ field recordings, they said it almost sounded like the
quarantine birds, there was a feeling of it being a little sanctuaryâ€�. The songs on Blue Garden were
written during a bittersweet time, where Gold was experiencing moments of love, loss and rebirth. The
album is a loose and abstract exploration of love in all its forms, how familial, platonic and romantic love
are all intertwined.
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