It's even more fascinating when you realize that many of Goldsworthy's works are not permanent. Which is why the scenes of art creation are so crucial. In between, we see Goldsworthy relaxing by "practicing" at home, creating similarly dazzling pieces made of wood and other natural materials.Īdmittedly, to the untrained eye, some of these works of art may look like little more than colorful squiggles. Then he's off to Digne, France, where he creates a patterned clay wall. This 2001 documentary finds Goldsworthy in Nova Scotia, where he's been commissioned to create a few original pieces along the coastline, working with ice and rock, and using his bare hands, no less.įrom there, he moves on to New York's Storm King Sculpture Park, where he designs a huge stone wall weaving its way through trees, pathways and even a nearby road. Still, you will keep your eyes open to see what he's going to create next. So it's fortunate that the film is relatively short (just over 90 minutes) and that its subject - Andy Goldsworthy, a Scottish sculptor known for working with nature - is so fascinating. The calming images of rivers, streams, forests and farmlands are so relaxing that you may have to fight the temptation to doze off. With dance ready beats magnificent storytelling and dazzling richly intertwined instrumentation it’s the perfect organic blend."Rivers and Tides" is subtle and meditative almost to a fault. ‘Against All Tides’ is a well-balanced album filled with hair raising stunning tracks to evoke all your senses. This track ends the album showing there’s a little more to their sound than perhaps you would think at first. It’s richly rhythmic and boppy with a shimmy and shake like swagger and attitude. ‘Lucid Dreaming Sheep’ closes the album with a unique sound for the trio. That sweet string feature is just sublime and delicate lulling you into a beautiful soft stupor. The accompaniment is simple for this track which leaves the attention all on the beautiful melody and passionate vocal delivery. ‘Prison Trilogy’ showcases their knack for story telling and heart wrenching emotion through melody. The light banjo adds a rush of panic while the vocals narrate through this frantic instrumentation. Strings sway, glide and pierce through the track adding soft swoons and dire urgency while the woeful cello builds with chilling depths. Tracks like ‘The Highwayman’ display the trios braided weaving instrumentation perfectly. 535 (Are You Even Alive?)’ throws a bouncy and theatrically spooky tone into the mix. It’s tender and emotional with a hidden mystical tone. ‘Drink of Reddest Wine’ brings a melancholic tone with winding hazy strings dragging back and forth while a sombre vocal melody pines and sobs the mournful lyrics. The tracks that follow maintain this darkened mysterious tone emphasised by the trio’s organic stunning use of instrumentation. The three-part vocal harmonies give a warmth yet striking hair-raising effect to the track. The twanging banjo bounces and playfully hops between an eerie dark soundscape of crawly strides on violin and building depth of urgency on cello. From the first track ‘Love Child’ the trio slap straight into their meticulously weaved sound. ‘Against All Tides’ is an intricate tightly weaved 11 track album filled with organic pure blends of baroque and folk. Over the past 5 years Harpeth Rising have recorded 5 albums, toured 9 different countries on 3 continents and performed more than 600 gigs. David’s songs have appeared on each of Harpeth Risings albums and Jordana – the primary songwriter for the band – states how her father “continues to be a source of inspiration” to her and her music. Two of the songs The Highwayman and I Did Not Make the World were written by David Greenberg, Jordana’s father. Many of the songs are protests and direct indictments of the political system while others take inspiration from personal suffering and hardships. Against All Tides is therefore unsurprisingly heavily influenced by the atmosphere of social unrest that surrounded them. The classically trained trio of Jordana Greenberg, Maria Di Meglio and Michelle Younger recorded between May 2016 and February 2017 in the eye of the political storm that was taking hold of America. Harpeth Rising have released their new album ‘Against All Tides’.
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