I’m thrilled to see my musical composition: Ice, rain, wind, spirit (Thingvellir national park) is included among the tracks on Cities and Memory latest album release, Sounds from Iceland. Part of their series of special albums dedicated to the sounds of specific cities and countries, Sounds from Iceland explores bubbling hot springs, gushing waterfalls and the expansive fjords of one of the world's most magical countries - and compositions built from these sounds that have inspired artists all over the world.
About my piece: Thingvellir national park reimagined by Allis Hamilton.
"This track is a conversation between midwinter, in my bushland home of Heron Cottage in Southern Australia, with that of the Iceland Thingvellir National Park. It is a song of the elements of rain and ice, wind and spirit.
"The night I first heard the Icelandic track was an evening of an enormous storm, a tornado of sorts, and the recordings I made of that fierce wind and the trees in my garden swaying and swirling in their unified response to the wind created my first thoughts for the music.
"Over the winter, through frosts, thunderstorms and rain I recorded the sounds of the natural world outside my squeaky front door. Alongside these I played some piano, ocarina; and added vocal layers laid like whispers on the wind over the footsteps of the other sounds, including the Icelandic recording which bookends the song alongside thunder and the calls of the mystical and mythic black cockatoos, the rain bringers."
released October 6, 2023
