After Lights Out With Tom Harding

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Album Info

Release Date: 2020-04-03

Label: This Is It Forever

AFTER LIGHTS OUT WITH TOM HARDING, the third album from long-distance ‘new music’ collective Capac, comprises ten pieces incorporating and inspired by poems taken from Palewell Press author Tom Harding’s Night Work collection, and features the Northampton poet’s own recitations in and around Capac’s musical explorations of the nocturnal themes in his poems.

This latest full length sees the collective explore new music, minimalism, ambient/experimental electro-acoustic and, of course, Harding’s spoken word world, as Capac offer his poems a new context to that of the original 2017 Palewell Press publication. The poet’s voice is heard alongside the nuances of his recordings — his page-turns and breaths, the creak of his chair — in combination with contemporary extended piano techniques, modular synthesis, altered field recordings, tape manipulations, and the vocals of Capac’s Kate Smith, all recorded and produced in and between Athens, Greece, and Bristol, Liverpool and London, UK.