Fitkin Wall
Still Warm
GFCD 060706, 2007
Graham Fitkin is a contemporary composer and plays keyboards and electronic sound effects and manipulations, while Ruth Wall plays a Norris lever harp, an Ardival gothic bray harp and a HHSI 'Student Trinity' early Irish harp. This music is upbeat yet dark, with ingenious and creative use of the very different sounds of the three harps and with lush and unexpected accompaniment. Sometimes it sounds like jazz, sometimes like contemporary minimalist classical, sometimes like rock music. The Trinity harp only appears on one rather retiring solo track; as far as I am aware this is the first recording featuring one of the new HHSI series of instruments. Ruth is promising to bring it to the fore in future work!
£13 +
