What a piece of scene-setting, no, scene-conjuring music. Ostensibly and most lazily labelled "harp music", this new song from LA-based harpist Mary Lattimore takes the harp to dizzying new heights, escaping the confines of earthly planes to float and jostle among unnameable ethers in fury of string bending and hefty effects experimentation.
With its emotive title, 'Horses, Glossy on the Hill' stamps into being an equine freedom, acheiving this majesty with shining strings, a procession of tumbling percussive sounds like so many disembodied hooves. Wild flutters of the harp jump and play, buck and canter; even a slice of chiptune finds its way in there, glowing with retro warmth, an animal cosiness emanating from it.
Its final third is characterised by such heavenly sweeps of the harp, mingling with those same sounds but in reverse like otherworldly birds. It's a soundscape like no other, speckled and beglittered with pinprick minutiae on the highest registers of the harp, with dark rumbles of synth eliciting mystery behind the playfulness as the scene fades. The horses, galloping off, disappear from view.
- 🔔 'Horses, Glossy on the Hill' is taken from the new Mary Lattimore album, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada. It's releasing 6th October via Ghostly; pre-order it on Bandcamp, if you like.
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