SALTINGS
Musical soundscapes, drones and experiments that explore the eerie of our pastoral surroundings....
SALTINGS is a pastoral-horror-soundscape project, founded by Irish-born composer Andrew Cooke. Working by himself or collaborating with others, Andrew draws on the unsettling literary influences of authors like M.R. James and W.G. Sebald to tentatively create audio-worlds of controlled darkness; hushed plateaux of eerie tranquility and black horizons full of whispering, half-dreamed creatures... which are also liable to veer into cascading noise and unrepentant drone. Andrew uses a combination of live instruments, loops, pedals and processing, and has four solo and two collaborative albums under his belt with more to come in 2019.
Previous and present collaborators include: Matthew Grigg (guitar), Thomas Stone (contrabassoon), Harry Furniss (cornet), John Scott aka Stereocilia (guitar), Ellen Southern (voice), Dan Johnson (precussion), Sophie Jackson (cello), Liz Muir (cello) and Caitlin Alais Callahan (double bass).
'subterranean meltdown music, roaring and peaking relentlessly' - Bristol 24/7
'hypnotic yet engaging, and completely beautiful. it cleanses your soul and creates a sunrise in your heart
that illuminates your entire being. damn it makes me feel good' - anticipating nowhere
'whispered, minimal elegies for the undetermined; or baleful shadings; or queasy, discombobulated, John Adams-styled loops both shaken and slurred' - misfitcity.org
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