{"title":"Hilary Woods","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"acts-of-light","title":"Acts Of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eActs of Light \u003c\/i\u003eis a fugue comprised of nine slow hypnotic dirges. Vulnerability, majesty, and candour elicited with drone, double bass, field recordings and sacred choral chant compose its private ritual. Born out of excavations and explorations in feeling, intuition and physicality through sound which culminated in her 2021 EP Feral Hymns, \u003ci\u003eActs of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a disquiet personal offering to wilderness, loss, absence, mystery and love supreme. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts resonant, rich and weighted lament is both subterranean and chasmal whilst simultaneously detailed and tender, awakening hidden forms that emerge from the shadows with each listen. Textural dust and speckled light move slowly and expansively here through a deeply sonic and sensory rite of passage where Woods’ moving compositions confide in us feeling to be received with the entire body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded and mixed over a span of two years along the west coast of Ireland and in various other locations, including the Procathedral in Dublin where Woods recorded the choristers of the Palestrina Choir and Galway where she recorded the voices of Galway City Chamber Choir, string samples were recorded by Jo Berger Myhrein Oslo, whilst field recordings were recorded nomadically throughout her time spent travelling through the north and south of Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones Records","offers":[{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50394552041803,"sku":"2055594","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50394551779659,"sku":"2055593","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/sbr274-hilarywoods-1800_46613648_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726442456"},{"product_id":"colt","title":"Colt","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited copies come with a bonus CD of Hilary Woods last two EP’s. Hilary Woods’ artistry is one of rare emotive reach. Her minimalist and compositional finesse combine with densely layered atmospheric instrumentation and dreamlike vocals to create music rich with both delicacy and intensity. The Sunday Times hailed her early solo recordings as “a revelation.” After the release of two critically acclaimed EPs, Woods spent 2017 writing and recording songs on an eight-track in an abandoned flat she was living in at the time. Layering piano, synth, tape machine, field recordings, vocals, drone, unadorned beats, and old string instruments, these songs culminate in her debut solo LP \u003ci\u003eColt.\u003c\/i\u003e Straddling the acoustic and electronic worlds, \u003ci\u003eColt \u003c\/i\u003eis an intensely personal journey through grief, abandonment, and mutating love. Woods navigates this journey with a lyrical potency that cuts through stark piano, sensuous synth work, and textural acoustics. Somewhere between Marissa Nadler, Grouper and Julee Cruise, these songs evoke both the anguish of their content and the ecstasy of their craft. Growing up in an artistic household on Dublin’s Northside, Woods studied film and literature, dropping in and out of fine art school. A singular vision and tenacious creativity has seen Woods cross multi-disciplinary thresholds, exploring visual and performance art alike. Her work has received critical acclaim all over Ireland with honors from the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Film Institute. Written and recorded at home in Dublin, \u003ci\u003eColt\u003c\/i\u003e was mixed by and co-produced with James Kelly (WIFE, Altar of Plagues) in Berlin in the winter of 2017. “Colt was created as a way to process and make sense of the everyday,” Woods imparts. “As a means to speak with inner voices, explore aloneness, and understand the complexities of desire. As a vehicle for imaginative flight, as a quest for resilience and connectivity to the outside world, as a medium through which to journey into the present, to temper the mind and inhabit the body.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl with bonus CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Blue Colour Vinyl with bonus CD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50486638608715,"sku":"1033255","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ac34ad50-185f-4ffa-a0f5-8b56b3167bad_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727612863"},{"product_id":"birthmarks","title":"Birthmarks","description":"\u003cp\u003eHilary Woods’ Birthmarks has been a labor of intensity and intuition, written over the course of two years. Recorded whilst heavily pregnant between Galway and Oslo in the winter of 2019, Woods explores the oscillating and volatile processes of selfhood and becoming, hidden gestational growth, and the birthing of the Self, amidst continuous social and personal change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirthmarks is a record that hunts for ways in which to revisit and caress wounds left by the memory of their scars. In its mystery and attentiveness to the art of alchemy and the world of the unseen, it is a journey through textural fog and feral density that gives way to passages of voracious sonic exorcism and poetic healing. Its eight songs traverse planes of visceral physicality, stark tender space, and breathtaking introspective beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpurred on and crafted by the impulse to create a more corporeal sonic tendon for her songs to inhabit, Woods took her vision and home recordings to Norwegian experimental noise producer and filmmaker Lasse Marhaug. The collaboration proved rare and fruitful and lies at the heart of this record. Field recordings, analogue bass synthesizers, hushed vocals, and the breath are underpinned with heavy noise processing, fierce and wide cello, rich percussion, sable saxophone, and electronics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirthmarks is inspired and informed by ideas of inner transmutation in the face of anxiety, post-war Japanese and wet-plate photography, early music, the secret life of trees, wolves, drone, the drawings of Francis Bacon, the images of Francesca Woodman, the films of Chris Marker, the experiential collapse of community, and the power of the lone human voice. It is a deeply powerful and enigmatic record that ultimately transcends its disquiet roots. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50511327428939,"sku":"1085282","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a87eb876-e89c-484e-988f-2fec3625e405_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727887371"},{"product_id":"night-criu","title":"Night Criú","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Criú\u003c\/em\u003e is Hilary Woods’ fourth full-length album - an ode to the mysterious, the outsiders, those who are freely dancing through the night. This record is ethereal, entrancing listeners with full orchestral instrumentation; Hilary’s magnificent vocals, surrounded by a choir of children, sway in between string and woodwind instruments, calling upon the listener to join her in the mist. Each track peels back a subconscious layer, hinting at nostalgic memories and emotions, enthralling you one harmonious song at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHilary Woods’ new album is produced in collaboration with Dean Hurley. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Bubblegum Pink","offer_id":53348155359563,"sku":"R3659-4391","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53348155392331,"sku":"R3659-2386","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/sbr374-hilarywoods-3600.jpg?v=1757415531"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/hilary-woods.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}