Whitsun, by Michael Price

Whitsun

by Michael Price

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1.	Seventh Sunday 03:34	info	buy track
2.	The Stopped Horse 02:18	info	buy track
3.	She Was Cherished 03:10	info	buy track
4.	Beltane 03:44	info	buy track
5.	Whitsun 05:28		buy track
6.	The Five Rise 02:22	info	buy track
7.	The Waldstein 03:21	info	buy track
8.	The First Touch of Water 02:23	info	buy track
9.	The Stream Shines Silver 05:57	info	buy track
10.	St Clement 04:01	info	buy track
11.	She Was Cherished (Hinako Omori Remix) 03:21	info	buy track

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Michael Price's new album - a profound exploration of the connection between sound and memory - is out on The Control Room now.

Whitsun expands work he started on 2014’s track ‘Easter’, where church bells in Venice were transformed into shimmering piano textures, but for Whitsun, the sound world that drives the piece is that of his childhood in Yorkshire.

Brass bands and chapel choirs spilled into the streets on high days and holidays, and away from the bustle of town were the sounds of the moors and the sea. The sense memory of piano practice in an echoing school hall early on a winter morning is recreated with haunting fragments of Beethoven, and the ghosts of hymn tunes from school assemblies. With family reaching back many generations in industrial Yorkshire, the connection to place also produces darker tones within Whitsun, chronicling the now empty churches, chapels and textile mills, once at the heart of the community.

On the new album, Price explores themes of remembrance through his single stringed Una Corda piano, his own voice, childhood trumpet, and, together with a range of tape and digital transformations, his vintage Yamaha CS80 synthesiser, played to evoke the tenor horns and euphoniums of a brass band (the same CS80 used by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to make the ‘80s Dr Who theme!). Whitsun is mixed by Guy Massey, mastered by Katie Tavini, with artwork by Paul Rafferty - carefully pieced together with both natural and industrial environmental sounds, to create an enthralling soundscape of growing up in Yorkshire.

Whitsun - which follows 2021’s collection, The Hope of Better Weather, featuring reworkings from Bill Ryder-Jones, Yann Tiersen, Peter Gregson and more - was originally dedicated to Michael Price's Grandad, Ernest Cropper, who lived all his life in Yorkshire and died at the age of 96 in 2008, but during the recording his father Alan also sadly died, so the album has been dedicated to the memory of them both.

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released August 12, 2022

Written & Recorded by Michael Price
Mixed by Guy Massey
Mastered by Katie Tavini

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Michael Price UK

Michael Price's debut album on Erased Tapes Records, Entanglement, was described as ‘gorgeous’ by Rolling Stone and as ‘a neo-classical treat’ by Uncut. ‘The emotional clout of this music is quite staggering’ - Clash.

His work for film & TV has also been widely recognised, winning an EMMY award in 2014, plus BAFTA & 2 further EMMY nominations for the BBC series Sherlock, scored with David Arnold. ... more

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