for every day you lost, by brave timbers

for every day you lost

by brave timbers

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~ more like the oak than the willow (Second Language podcast session, 2010)

~ two sisters (Second Language podcast session, 2010)

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1.	more like the oak than the willow 03:45	buy track
2.	all the things you couldn't say 04:14	buy track
3.	out with the tide 02:41	buy track
4.	i'll always come back to this place 03:18	buy track
5.	scotland, 1950 04:17	buy track
6.	forgotten bloodlines 03:22	buy track
7.	hold onto my words 04:13	buy track
8.	two sisters 03:35	buy track
9.	for every day you lost 05:17	buy track
10.	you'll never be the same again 03:24	buy track
11.	shelter here 07:20	buy track

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For Every Day You Lost proffers a delightfully drowsy procession of mellifluous, melancholy-tinged instrumental vignettes for violin, tenor guitar and piano, all of it played by Sarah. It’s an album whose sustained reflective mood and keening chamber arrangements conjure a bewitching, immersive sound world that will immediately appeal to fans of Rachel’s, Balmorhea and Dakota Suite.

Sarah’s influences are broad and innumerable, but she acknowledges the importance to the brave timbers sound of Seefeel, Brian Eno’s ambient works, Stars Of The Lid, Low, Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds and Wim Mertens, as well as that of “growing up in the North East, living on the coast, and friends I’ve played violin with in different northern cities...”

The album owes its genesis to Second Language’s man in Copenhagen, Martin Holm. “I was playing with Fieldhead in Denmark and Sweden”, Sarah recalls, “…that’s where we met Martin who asked me to contribute a track for Music & Migration, which I did. Then Second Language asked if I’d be up for making an album, so I set about it pretty quickly.”

Indeed, For Every day You Lost was cut over two weekends in spring 2010 (at the Cambridge home studio of Tracey Browne, the album’s co-producer, and at Airtight Studios in Manchester) and mixed on a third. “A lot of the tracks were improvised… some stemmed from ideas I’d had in my head; most just developed as I recorded them”, says Sarah. “That’s how I wanted it to be – a very organic, natural sound. Sometimes when people spend too long reworking tracks they become dissipated; I didn’t want that. Also, I wanted to know that I could replicate the album live as truly as possible. I prefer things to be more stripped down and intimate sounding, with space for the listener to really hear each note and to maybe focus on a different line each time they listen to it.”

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released September 17, 2010

All music written and played by Sarah Kemp.
All tracks engineered by Tracey Browne at Tracey's Bedroom Studio, Cambridge, except piano at Airtight Studios, Manchester.
Produced by Sarah Kemp and Tracey Browne.
Mastered by Simon Trought at Soup Studio, London.
Artwork by K. Craig.

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brave timbers North Shields, UK

brave timbers is melodic and minimal instrumental music using violin, piano and tenor guitar. The music is often improvised, using looped strings, subtle piano and finger picked guitar to create a warm and organic sound. Songs are inspired by nature, and often accompanied by visuals. ... more

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