{"product_id":"every-and-all-we-voyage-on","title":"Every and All We Voyage On","description":"\u003cp\u003eR. Elizabeth is the recording name of London-based artist and academic Rachael Finney. \u003ci\u003eEvery And All We Voyage On\u003c\/i\u003e is her solo recording project’s second full length and is a focused distillation of her practice in sound art and her knack for pop minimalism. It follows a long sold out release on Where To Now? Records and a prolonged period in which she concentrated on artist residencies exploring her interest in recorded sound and voice. Immediate and natural, \u003ci\u003eEvery And All We Voyage On\u003c\/i\u003e manages to sound joyful while tackling complex themes, handling everything with an improvisatory touch. The songs are full of air and light; infectious, melodic and off-the-cuff. Recorded using a single 80s Casio keyboard, reel-to-reel tape manipulation, piano and vocal, Finney’s practice with R. Elizabeth belies a studious attention to detail. Her academic work is often focused on analysing sounds – particularly voice and language – divorced from meaning and R. Elizabeth challenges the listener with overtly emotional tropes: sweeping portmento lap-steel guitar keyboard tones on \u003ci\u003eBack From Ten \u003c\/i\u003esuggest a nostalgic melancholy when it intersects with the narrator closing her eyes, realising she has nothing left to give. The lilting vocal cloaked in reverb is disarming, with an almost child-like surrender to the undertow of the song. On \u003ci\u003eTragedy And Trade\u003c\/i\u003e there’s a rough grace to the mixing with visceral, manipulated tape sounding like the artists’ hands are literally in the speakers wrenching the melodies in mid-air. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it intersects with chants about the “gaps and the silences” it has an eerie, hauntological effect. R. Elizabeth is constantly playing with sound and song: a Wonderland of perceived emotion, the listener’s perception of what they’re hearing constantly in flux, it’s deceptively simple and deserving of repetitive listening. \u003ci\u003eCut Piano\u003c\/i\u003e opens the album and introduces a documentary-feel which the album upholds through-out. It’s the sound of the artist mangling a tape of her own piano recording, twisting it out of shape and suggesting a bend in reality. We’re listening to the artist becoming a ghost in her own machine, a 3rd or 4th generation copy of an emotion rendered a long time ago, chilling and playful at the same time. \u003ci\u003eAn Image Is Different\u003c\/i\u003e bursts out of this with a sunny Casiotone beat, a melodic contrast that also introduces Finney’s vocal. It flitters between a gorgeous repetitive melody ruminating about the nature of reality and a seemingly careless, conversational tone. The effect is joyful, but you don’t really know why. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Night School","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50457153339723,"sku":"1072436","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4c7881ab-0082-4325-a478-9dae1a34a773_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727203443","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/every-and-all-we-voyage-on","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}