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Always Begun Again is the second single from Ancient Air's new EP out in May 2022.
Ancient Air is the recording project of Melbourne-based composer/producer, Jill Farrar. Farrar uses novel and improvised recording techniques – fusing string and vessel resonances – to reimagine more traditional song form. Her work moves within ambient, indie-classical and experimental genres.
The song's name Always Begun Again is drawn from a Clive James poem Sunset Hails a Rising, which in turn borrowed the line from Paul Valéry’s famous poem, Le Cimetière marin. ‘La mer, la mer, toujours recommencée,’ wrote Valéry.
"This is a special song for me. It feels like a conversation – a back-and-forth between two friends, perhaps two lovers. The song is bookended by a recording from Lord Howe Island – a spontaneous percussion jam using beach coral with myself and two most-loved people, Anthony and Laura, back in a brief un-lockdown in 2020," said Farrar.
"When I play this song on the piano, my hands constantly cross over, speaking to each other. The vocal–string resonances drift like mist. The song also draws inspiration from Ethiopiques 21 – Ethiopia Song by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou.
"I've always seen this as an ocean song – a song about cycles and waves and neverendingness."
credits
released April 20, 2022
Piano, piano resonances and vocal–string resonances performed by Jill Farrar
Coral percussion performed by Laura Altman, Anthony Carew and Jill Farrar (aka Butcher Hole)
Piano and piano resonances recorded by Gus Franklin at Lukktone
Vocal–string resonances and coral percussion recorded by Jill Farrar
Birrarung/Yarra River recorded by Jill Farrar
Mixed by Jill Farrar
Mastered by Gus Franklin
Artwork by David Wardell
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