{"product_id":"a-few-scattered-hours","title":"A Few Scattered Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e4th album of uniquely dulcimer-led instrumental post-rock from Anglo \/ American \/ Australian collective, Memory Drawings, featuring members of Hood \/ The Declining Winter, Brave Timbers and Tangents. With limited edition bonus disc of remixes and reworks by Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance, Insides, Giulio Aldinucci, Pin\/Johnson (ex-Piano Magic), The Green Kingdom, Mücha and Yvonne Bruner. For fans of Dead Can Dance, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemory Drawings is the beguiling, drum-less, instrumental project of Minneapolis raised, Morocco-based hammered dulcimer player Joel Hanson, erstwhile Hood guitarist \/multi-instrumentalist and sometime Declining Winter main-man Richard Adams and Lanterns on the Lake \/ Brave Timbers violinist Sarah Kemp.\u003ci\u003e A Few Scattered Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, their fourth album, is an indirect indictment of life in early 21st-century, neo-liberal America, where increasing numbers of people are consumed by the relentless necessity of fulfilling economic imperatives, leaving fewer and fewer hours to focus on the spiritual\/artistic pursuits that make life worth living. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis record is the band's sonic antidote to this loss of personal autonomy, a reminder that other worlds—more compassionate and beautiful—are still possible. In addition to Memory Drawings mainstays, Hanson reached out to a larger group of musicians, including Gareth S Brown (Hood) and old friends and former bandmates from his hometown of Minneapolis—Joel Smith, Tim Ritter, Craig Grossman, and Mykl Westbrooks—in addition to cellist Peter Hollo (Tangents\/FourPlay String Quartet) and viola-player Jessy Greene (Pink\/Foo Fighters) to help shape the record in their own unique ways. The result is the band's most dense, song-oriented and percussion-heavy record to date. Hammered dulcimer blends with strings, acoustic guitar, splashing drums and dub-like bass to form a unique, cinematic blend of neo-classical post-rock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Second Language Music","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50474081943883,"sku":"1101510","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7ed66d38-c254-446f-be8c-67d99bb1f01f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727433602","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/a-few-scattered-hours","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}