With just under a month to go until her debut full-length Desert Window drops via Fire Records (pre-order here), York-based experimental artist Lucy Gooch has shared a third track "Clouds" featuring improvisational jazz musician Harry Furniss on cornet and Alistair Lax on piano, strings, and keys.
Writing on Instagram, Gooch says:
"I am proud of this song, it is about clouds but it’s also not about clouds. The words are inspired by clouds forming and also by how enormous clouds can be, especially when we look up and become aware of them, maybe during a stressful, frenetic or insignificant moment. [Harry Furniss] brought the most astonishing layers of cornet which transformed the latter half of the song and it morphed into such an invigorating passage of music. I am so lucky and thrilled that Harry agreed to play on this last year as the track was never complete no matter which way I approached it. But Harry played off of some of my melodies and introduced his own strikingly unexpected ideas – thank you Harry."
The track follows recent singles "Keep Pulling Me In" and "Like Clay", and comes with a video shot by Oliver Sutherland in the beautiful surroundings of the UK's Dartmoor National Park. Watch it below:
Fresh of a run of dates opening for Alabaster dePlume, Gooch will play an album launch show at London's Servant Jazz Quarters on 12 June and a slot at Brighten the Corners festival the following day. Current list of dates as follows:
06/12 London, UK @ Servant Jazz Quarters
06/13 Ipswich, UK @ Brighten the Corners Festival
11/08 Bristol, UK @ Simple Things Festival
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