## West Kensington
- Artist(s): [[Mary Lattimore]]
- Release Year: [[2022]]
- Ostensible or actual genres: [[experimental]], [[ambient]], [[new age]], [[psychedelic]]
- [Bandcamp Link](https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/west-kensington)
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## Bandcamp Copy
> It is shocking what your mind will choose to forget. Almost always it needs a tear, a clean dash, a straight passage into what you've already known. Looking back, West Kensington has achieved that very goal: creating a landscape for memory, an imprint of that horizon, suspended in the cosmos.
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> I heard it in real-time, percolating against our shared apartment wall. The assembly of sounds was a comfort; a welcome change during what felt like a fresh era entirely. Like the comets we see every so often, it's the streak of some long-ago awe that we try to comprehend. So much space, so much reach and so far; so much weight hanging in the dark sky. And the reasons we missed the comet - and why - become the moments we remember most.
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> Welcome to The Unknown. “Hundred Dollar Hoagie” is a slap across the face, our new normal. The weight of Lattimore’s harp is our hull, her tones steadying the ship’s course. Sukeena’s guitar is our intrepid guide, as terrified as us. All at once, the things that seem so familiar, appear so far away. The mid-record swells for “Didn't See The Comet” like a hall pass for a coastal drive. The chimes in “Flaming Cherries Jubilee at Antoine's” tell us it’s going to be OK. Permission to land has been granted. The ambient noise dissipates and like a futuristic... more
> credits
> released May 20, 2022
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> Mary Lattimore plays harp and synthesizers.
> Paul Sukeena plays electric guitar, mellotron, Old Style rubber bridge.
> Recorded at home in 2020.
> Mixed by Jeff Zeigler.
> Mastered by Carl Saff.
> Back photo by Ryan Noon.
> Design / layout by D. Norsen.
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> Thanks to: Francis Cardinale for lending his synths, Angel Olsen for lending the mellotron, Nicky Devine, Cory Rayborn, Jeff Zeigler, Carl Saff, Brian Foote, Craig McQuisten and Kristin Anderson, Devin and Ian, Bob and Jamie Chisholm, Brian Riegel, Ryan Noon and Alex Brookhart, Steven Urgo, Jess & Tui, Emily & Amelie, Nick Fisher & El Prado, Hail Mary Pizza, Joe DeNardo, and most of all Al & Jenny.