Night Sky, by Sophie Hutchings

Night Sky

by Sophie Hutchings

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Russ Park ooh yeh ! just buy all Sophie's work you won't be disappointed Favorite track: The Near Side.

honeylocust I've been listening to this album for years, so it's about time I bought it! Sophie is talented and the timbre of her music makes me feel warm inside. Lovely, addictive piano. Favorite track: In Light.

pilgrimageofplenty Sophie's music is perhaps my favourite to have in my ears as I'm wandering through the city - my perception becomes elevated and I start seeing the beauty in the details around me

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	1.	Half Hidden 08:21
	2.	In Light 02:50
	3.	Shadowed 06:41
	4.	Between Earth and Sky 07:44
	5.	Saber's Beads 03:06
	6.	By Night 05:29
	7.	The Near Side 06:30
	8.	Last Quarter 03:13

about

Night Sky is the second release from Sydney based pianist and composer Sophie Hutchings. Sophie’s debut Becalmed made waves around the globe with MOJO Magazine describing it as ‘stirring, vigorous and grandly melodic’. It went on to be listed in MOJO’s top five independent releases for 2010 and saw her placed along side such neo-classical luminaries as Peter Broderick, Dustin O’Halloran and Nils Frahm. But where Becalmed evoked the oceanic, Night Sky places itself strictly in the nocturnal world. As open as it is rarefied, Night Sky is enveloped by a dream-like lushness only enhanced by the subtle addition of new aural flavours such as woodwinds, wordless vocals, harmonium, percussion and strings. Again working alongside acclaimed engineer Tim Whitten (known for his work with The Necks), Night Sky bares witness to Hutchings’ blossoming talent with an extra sense of sophistication and intricacy. An esoteric, haunted and ultimately beautiful album.

Her rippling piano has an intimate, contemplative quality; sometimes melancholic, often with an exhilarating beauty, conjouring images from the edge of the listeners’ consciouness like something half-remembered in the middle of the night. - The Guardian

It’s almost impossibly beautiful. Eight pieces of instrumental piano music with limited extra support – violin, cello, accordion, singing saw – that never pulls focus from her simple, often layered, right-hand melodies. This is deeply nocturnal music - Mess+Noise Andrew P Street

This isn’t music to whack on while you clean the house or drive to the shops: this demands attention and rewards it handsomely. Night Sky is the soundtrack to a film too heartbreakingly beautiful to exist. - The Brag

There are many untold stories on this album. But among the many drawn by Hutchings, the most important one is yours. It is the one that briefly comes up to the surface of your being, awakened only by this music from its prolonged sleep. And when you get a glimpse of that particular emotion, you will know it. You will know it more than ever. And for that we’ll have to be indebted to Sophie Hutchings. - Headphone Commute

credits

released August 24, 2012

Sophie Hutchings: Piano, Harmonium, Tacked piano, Accordion, Percussion, Vocals
Jeremey Kong: Violin
Peter Hollo: Cello
Lee Hutchings: Oboe, Alto Flute, Flute
Reuben Wills: Saw

Written and composed by Sophie Hutchings
Recorded and mixed by Tim Whitten at Level 7, Megaphon, Ocenanic Studios
Mastered at Chapel of Sound by Paul Bryant

Cover Art - Kassandra Jensen

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Sophie Hutchings Sydney, Australia

Sophie Hutchings is a Sydney pianist and composer who has developed into a performer of unique beauty and international renown. Her music has been described as beautifully fragile along with a deep sense of urgency making for many shades… Her Compositions are a blend of Piano, Strings, Field recordings along with elements of woodwind percussion and ethereal vocals ... more

shows

Apr 25

The Glad Cafe C.i.c

Glasgow, UK
Apr 27

Low Four Studio, Deansgate Mews

Manchester, UK
Apr 29

The Lantern, Bristol Beacon

Bristol, UK
May 1

Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall

London, UK

discography

Living Light (Extended Mix)

Sep 2018
Byways

Sep 2017
Yonder

Mar 2017
Wide Asleep

Jun 2016
White Light

Oct 2014
Night Sky

Aug 2012
Becalmed

Aug 2010

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