Harp Mix Tape III

Sometimes you need music that meshes with what's going on in your head and changes it slightly. My brain has been noisy, and I just needed to add some beautiful dissonance to it this week. To purchase the albums heard here, click on any of the links in the notes below.  To hear this playlist on BNDCMPR where you can purchase the individual songs, head to Harp Mix Tape III.  

Raon / Figueiredo / Hasselberg is a trio that sensibly named themselves after themselves. They play experimental improv with piano, bass, and harp and a bit of processing. In this track, the harp comes in halfway through. The album is called This is What Will Be.

Scott Crawford Morrison "takes fragments of counterpoint by Giovanni da Palestrina (1525 - 1594) and uses these as the basis of new arrangements for alto saxophone and electronics, and lever-harp and electronics." This has an almost music box quality, but maybe the sound is drifting in from the next room. The album is simply called Pale.

Rafael Toral is a Portugese composer. The album Constellation in Still Time is spare experimental music with harp. vibraphone, and computer sine waves.

rough-ah plays acoustic and electric harp, adds field recordings, and then digitally and analog.. ally? processes it. This has some absolutely lovely dissonance and distortion that scratches my itchy brain. Another simple album title: bare.

Duo Harpverk is an Icelandic duo that plays experimental harp and percussion. I always forget that percussion includes marimba. It's a neat combo. The Greenhouse Sessions

L'abri + EVELINE combine harp and field recordings, but this track kind of starts with a Holst's The Planets-like  chorus. so it sounds like it could be here on earth, but maybe it's really out in space. Rêves en cours is the album.