Ellie Wilson - Memory Islands (2023) [Hi-Res]

My new album Memory Islands is available for preorder today (1 September) on the Bigo and Twigetti label. Available on CD and via all download and streaming platforms. The music on the album - written for violin, hardanger fiddle and electronics - explores the strange landscape of memory and the spirit of place. The sound world a mixture of experimental soundscapes, drones, and contemporary classical but punctuated with melodic/folky lines on the violin. It includes a recording of my grandfather reminiscing about his experiences and lost years as a Navy seaman in World War II (By the Time I Got Back Pt 1); along with pieces inspired by the how the brain reboots after waking from a coma (Delta), a line from Robert Macfarlane’s book Landmarks about nature words falling out of our language (Unnamed Unseen) and a quote from the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact in the moment the onboard computer HAL 900 confronts his digital ‘mortality’– all memories erased (Will I Dream?). Most of the sounds heard on this album are created from the violin (sampling, processed through effects, detuned, extended techniques).

Tracklist:
1.01 - Ellie Wilson - Unnamed Unseen (3:27)
1.02 - Ellie Wilson - Delta (4:22)
1.03 - Ellie Wilson - By The Time I Got Back, Pt. 1 (3:35)
1.04 - Ellie Wilson - Mindpop (4:17)
1.05 - Ellie Wilson - Halyard (3:20)
1.06 - Ellie Wilson - Will I Dream? (5:49)
1.07 - Ellie Wilson - By The Time I Got Back, Pt. 2 (4:30)