Following the announcement of their new album - Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 2 - Group Listening release a reinterpretation of one of Laraaji’s more beautiful new age pop moments ‘All of a Sudden’ - accompanied by a video by Nic Finch (chameleonic): http://ffm.to/grouplistening
Featuring helmet sculptures by H. Hawkline and set on the edge of Pentrebane, the video for ‘All of a Sudden’ derives inspiration from DIY rave music videos and New Age mysticism, we are privy to rituals invoking imagined futures and displacement of realities performed around a mid-1960’s water tower, locally known as ‘The Lollipop’ or ‘Golf Ball’.
Group Listening’s brilliant first album, Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol.1, was a haunting, meditative and lovingly considered selection box of musical reworkings. It featured rearranged tracks by the likes of Arthur Russell, Brian Eno and Robert Wyatt. But it was also much more than that. In making this record of reimagined musical works, Stephen Black [Clarinet] and Paul Jones [Piano] were two musicians doing what all music fans do: comparing favourite tracks, turning each piece over for new meaning and developing a musical understanding of each other in the process.
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