## Subaerial - Artist(s): [[Lucy Railton]] & [[Kit Downes]] - Release Year: [[2021]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[experimental]], [[improvisation]] - [Bandcamp Link](https://lucyrailton.bandcamp.com/album/subaerial) Notes: Organ and cello #album #👍 %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | %% ## Bandcamp Copy > 'Subaerial' is the latest and most sophisticated transmission from the long musical partnership of cellist Lucy Railton and keyboardist Kit Downes, a collaborative history that stretches back thirteen years. From the beginning, the pair bridged musical worlds, with the former emerging from classical and contemporary music and the latter steeped in jazz tradition. This phenomenal new album captures the musicians erasing lines between approaches and traditions. While improvisation has always been a part of their alliance, Subaerial marks the first time that the duo have used recorded improvisations as the core material for a release. The cello and organ, beautifully recorded by Alex Bonney at Skáholt Cathedral, blend in richly striated harmonies, with phrases and cadences that stretch back centuries while sounding unerringly contemporary. > The pair first crossed paths whilst studying in London and spent the following decade collaborating in various groups whilst cutting their own distinct paths. By the time they rendezvoused in Iceland in the fall of 2017 to create 'Subaerial', Railton had moved to Berlin, where her embrace of electronics was leading her in new directions, exploring microtonality, psychoacoustics, and synthesis, an evolution captured on shape-shifting albums released by experimental... more > credits > released August 13, 2021 > > Lucy Railton - Cello > Kit Downes - Organ > > All music by Lucy Railton and Kit Downes. > Edited by Lucy Railton and Kit Downes. > Mixed by Lucy Railton and Alex Bonney. > Recorded by Alex Bonney at Skálholtsdómkirkja, Iceland, September, 2017. > > Front cover artwork by Maya Rochat, ‘Time Gate’ from the series LIVING IN A PAINTING 2019. > Photograph by Alex Bonney, taken at Skálholtsdómkirkja. > Design by Francis Fuego. > > Cut by Graeme Durham. > © + ℗ 2021 SN Variations. > license > all rights reserved