Living Matter | Recycled Colour Vinyl
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Mara Simpson is a multi-instrumentalist, performing artist, songwriter, producer and composer. Her work seamlessly blends electronic, acoustic and orchestral instruments, exploring her love for tape delays, analogue synths and field recordings. Her fourth studio album Living Matter, written and engineered in the Stroud, Gloucestershire recording studio she handwrought, will be released on the 30th May 2025 via Republic of Music with the vinyl featuring liner notes by DJ, presenter and podcaster Edith Bowman. Living Matter is a unique album written in response to a set of poems by celebrated poet and fellow Stroud dweller JLM Morton published in her book Red Handed. Born out of a mutual admiration of one another's work, and a friendship fostered in wild swimming, Morton asked Simpson to come up with a live score for the performance of her and writer Emma Kernahan's book, Glos Mythos. This collaboration planted the seeds for what would blossom into a full-length album, atop plans for Glos Mythos to tour nationally this year Predominantly instrumental, with passages of field recording segways and explorative sound design each of the ten tracks featured on the album is a response to a different poem in the collection. Inspired by the landscape of Mara's Stroud home (also the birthplace of Extinction Rebellion and poet, novelist and screenwriter Laurie Lee) and its mystical history (from the area's pre-Roman Dobunni tribe to the spirits Genii Cucullati) and water goddesses (Cuda a
Tracks
1~1~Fragile Sphere1~2~Filaments
1~3~Blue Clay
1~4~Shift
1~5~Mineral
1~6~So Far
1~7~Stone Relief
1~8~Thin Place
1~9~Safe Passage
1~10~Each Other
Details
Catalogue Number: MSD15LPFormat: Vinyl LP
Artist: Simpson, Mara
Release Date: 30 May 2025
Genre: Ambient / Meditation / Inspirational
Label: DOWNFIELD RECORDS
Distributor: Rocket Group
