2. All The Things You Couldn\u2019t Say<\/em>
3. Out With The Tide<\/em>
4. I\u2019ll Always Come Back to This Place<\/em>
5. Scotland, 1950<\/em>
6. Forgotten Bloodlines<\/em>
7. Hold Onto My Words<\/em>
8. Two Sisters<\/em>
9. For Every Day You Lost<\/em>
10. You\u2019ll Never Be The Same Again<\/em>
11. Shelter Here<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
brave timbers is the performing and recording alias of Newcastle upon Tyne-based multi-instrumentalist Sarah Kemp, an in-demand violinist and esteemed contributor to a number of notable musical ensembles and their recordings, including much-admired works by The Declining Winter, Fieldhead, Lanterns On The Lake, Anna Kashfi and Last Harbour. The debut brave timbers album follows a memorable contribution to Second Language\u2019s 2010 Music & Migration compilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Every Day You Lost proffers a delightfully drowsy procession of mellifluous, melancholy-tinged instrumental vignettes for violin, tenor guitar and piano, all of it played by Sarah. It\u2019s an album whose sustained reflective mood and keening chamber arrangements conjure a bewitching, immersive sound world that will immediately appeal to fans of Rachel\u2019s, Balmorhea and Dakota Suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sarah\u2019s influences are broad and innumerable, but she acknowledges the importance to the brave timbers sound of Seefeel, Brian Eno\u2019s ambient works, Stars Of The Lid, Low, Peter Broderick, \u00d3lafur Arnalds and Wim Mertens, as well as that of \u201cgrowing up in the North East, living on the coast, and friends I\u2019ve played violin with in different northern cities…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The album owes its genesis to Second Language\u2019s man in Copenhagen, Martin Holm. \u201cI was playing with Fieldhead in Denmark and Sweden\u201d, Sarah recalls, \u201c\u2026that\u2019s where we met Martin who asked me to contribute a track for Music & Migration, which I did. Then Second Language asked if I\u2019d be up for making an album, so I set about it pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed, For Every day You Lost was cut over two weekends last spring (at the Cambridge home studio of Tracey Browne, the album\u2019s co-producer, and at Airtight Studios in Manchester) and mixed on a third. \u201cA lot of the tracks were improvised\u2026 some stemmed from ideas I\u2019d had in my head; most just developed as I recorded them\u201d, says Sarah. \u201cThat\u2019s how I wanted it to be \u2013 a very organic, natural sound. Sometimes when people spend too long reworking tracks they become dissipated; I didn\u2019t want that. Also, I wanted to know that I could replicate the album live as truly as possible. I prefer things to be more stripped down and intimate sounding, with space for the listener to really hear each note and to maybe focus on a different line each time they listen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first 200 copies of For Every Day You Lost were accompanied by ‘Woodwork,’ a limited edition 3″ disc of exclusive album remixes by Fieldhead, The Declining Winter, Gareth S. Brown and Epic45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘WOODWORK’ TRACKLISTING : <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Hold Onto My Words ~ <\/em>Gareth S. Brown remix SOLD OUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/btw3.jpg\")
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2. Like The Oak Than The Willow ~ <\/em>Fieldhead remix
3. Shelter Here ~ <\/em>The Declining Winter remix
4. I\u2019ll Always Come Back to This Place<\/em> ~ Epic 45 remix<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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