Sunflowers Face The Sun, by Ailie Ormston/Finlay Clark

Sunflowers Face The Sun

by Ailie Ormston/Finlay Clark

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1.	U 00:22	buy track
2.	Seeing Daylight 04:12	buy track
3.	Unsweetened 02:04	buy track
4.	Bodies Labouring Hands Working 04:53	buy track
5.	Gargle/Slippy 03:31	buy track
6.	Anemone As Alien 03:46	buy track
7.	Hold Me 06:51	buy track
8.	Uphill Downtown 04:13	buy track
9.	Ends In A Square 01:48	buy track
10.	Bruiser 02:25	buy track
11.	Same Same 01:54	buy track
12.	Vibe 05:23	buy track

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Sunflowers Face The Sun is the first album from Ailie Ormston and Finlay Clark.

Taking inspiration from Anni Albers’ methodologies in textile making, Clark recorded a collection of improvisations from which Ormston has constructed new compositions by sampling, restructuring and altering the initial material.

Recorded with just a dictaphone on an out of tune piano in a tenement flat, the brooding melodies maintain a sense of delicate intimacy and playfulness in tandem with the tactile sounds of the wooden chair and piano hammers. Elements of the melodies, Clark’s playing style, and environmental sounds within the room have been amplified, distorted, repeated, chopped and patched together by Ormston, with an intention to preserve the nature of the recordings in parts and completely abstract them in others. The twelve compositions demonstrate an intrigue in making and unmaking, as well as pairing processed and unprocessed sounds – these concepts formed the basis of discussion between Clark and Ormston in the early stages of collaboration, and subsequently acted as an initial agenda to stray from and return to in the production of the album.

The album has been transposed – or translated – to sheet music for string quartet as its final iteration. The transference of sound from piano improvisation, to production in digital software, to scored sheet music, illustrates a way of thinking about music as a material to be reconstructed in different contexts which is integral to both Ormston and Clark’s interdisciplinary practices.

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Finlay Clark is an interdisciplinary artist from London. Working primarily with their long-term collaborators Still House Plants, Clark will also be starting work on a new film score later this year as well as studying with Gavin Bryars in France.

Ailie Ormston is a Scottish musician who works mostly collaboratively. 2020 will also see the release of It Changes, an album with Tim Fraser; they performed at Counterflows, a music festival in Glasgow in 2019. In 2018 her double EP ‘The Sedate/Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo.’ was released on 50% PURE.

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released September 18, 2020

Music by Ailie Ormston and Finlay Clark

ailieormston.bandcamp.com
bison-records.bandcamp.com/album/fast-edit

Mastering by Sean McCann
www.recitalprogram.com/masteringservices/

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