A Few Scattered Hours

4th 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.

Memory 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. A Few Scattered Hours, 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.

This 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.