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Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore detail debut collaborative album, Tragic Magic

21 October 2025

Photo: Rachael Pony Cassells

We love Julianna Barwick and we love Mary Lattimore, two unique voices in the world of experimental and ambient music. Barwick is known for her celestial soundscapes, built from loops and layered vocals, and Lattimore’s harp work has become synonymous with a delicate and expressive storytelling style. Both have been involved in numerous projects and collaborations over the years, including with each other, most recently with the Adult Swim single ‘Canyon Lights’. Now they have joined forces for Tragic Magic, the first full album they’ve created together. Sprouted after the devastating wildfires in California, Barwick and Lattimore recorded it in just nine days in Paris, where they had access to the instrument collection of the Philharmonie de Paris’ Musée de la Musique. Lattimore chose three harps dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, and Barwick worked with analog synthesizers like the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5. Lattimore shares, “We were so lucky to have access to this experience. There was a lot of reverence, working with people with such warmth and enthusiasm, bringing these instruments into a modern context, literally taken off the shelves of the museum.”

Featuring seven tracks, on the upcoming Tragic Magic the pair “render a meditation on tragedy, wonder, and the restorative power of shared experience”, as the press release explains. The album captures the special bond the two musicians have developed over years of touring and collaborating. Barwick reflects on the process, saying, “We wanted to honor the past while making music that we feel is a true expression of ourselves. People ask, how was Paris? I’m like, it was perfect. It was like everything just aligned.”

To preview the album ahead of its release on January 16th through InFiné, they’ve released ‘Melted Moon’, a devastatingly beautiful, plangent, shimmering and emotive track. Along with the single, they are offering a live video of the two performing the track at Lou Lou’s Jungle Room in San Diego, directed by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild. Watch it below.

In other related good news, and in support of the forthcoming Tragic Magic, Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have announced a series of live performances in North America, UK and Europe in 2026.

Moor Mother announces new LP, The Great Bailout, and shares ‘Guilty’

22 January 2024

Photo: Ebru Yildiz

There’s exciting news from Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, who has announced the release of her ninth studio album titled The Great Bailout. Releasing on March 8th through ANTI-, it saw the composer, poet, vocalist and educator invite an impressive list of artists to contribute to the album, including Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, Vijay Ayer, Angel Bat Dawid, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty and Aaron Dilloway, amongs others.

The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act and the 1835 Slavery Abolition Act acted as the backdrop for the album. “Research is a major part of my work, and researching history – particularly African history, philosophy and time – is a major interest,” Ayewa commented. “Europe and Africa have a very intimate and brutal relationship throughout time. I’m interested in exploring that relationship of colonialism and liberation, in this case in Great Britain.”

The delicate, spectral, and sublime opening track ‘Guilty’, shared alongside the album announcement, masterfully sets the tone for the album. “Displacement and its effects are not discussed enough,” Ayewa says. “The PTSD of displacement should be a focus, and as we have the opportunity to learn about things happening in the world, we also have the opportunity to learn about ourselves. We’ve been through so many different acts of systematic violence.”

‘Guilty’ features Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore and Raia Was, and is offered with an accompanying video by Scott Kiernan. Watch it below.

Mixtape #140

05 September 2022

With a career spanning more than two decades, celebrated British composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Danny Mulhern has amassed a portfolio of award winning film and tv soundtrack work, solo releases and a long standing collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra. This month he is set to step in the spotlight again with the release of his fifth album, Singing Through Others, a beautiful sonic triumph effortlessly marrying contemporary classical music with elements of ambient and electronic. We’re over the moon to unveil his sublime mix giving a thumbs up to some of the artists that have inspired him.

  1. Mary Lattimore – Sometimes He’s In My Dreams [Ghostly International]
  2. N KRAMER – Wading Through The Grass [Leaving Records]
  3. Woo – Waterdrum [Independent Project Records / Drag City]
  4. Woo – Sarah [Emotional Rescue]
  5. Felbm – Florissant
  6. Danny Mulhern – Cloud Cuckoo [Enate Music / Kontor Media]
  7. Andrew Wasylyk – A Further Look at Loss [Athens Of The North]
  8. Beata Hlavenková – Scenery [Animal Music]
  9. Dave Okumu – Son Of Emmerson [Transgressive Records]
  10. Moondog – Bird’s Lament [Kopf]
  11. Daniel Herskedal – The Mariner’s Cross [Edition Records]
  12. Matthew Halsall – Mindfulness Meditations [Gondwana Records]
  13. Absolutely Free – How To Paint Clouds (Joseph Shabason Remix) [Boiled Records]
  14. Corntuth – D-005 [Flow State Records]
  15. Chico Hamilton – Andante [Pacific Jazz]
  16. Joseph Shabason – Our Place ft. Thom Gill [Western Vinyl]
  17. Max Cooper – Inanimate to Animate ft. Kotomi [Mesh]
  18. Kafari – What If
  19. G.S. Schray – District Lizards [Last Resort]
  20. Corntuth – A-001 [Flow State Records]
  21. Dictaphone – 808.14.4 [Denovali Records]
  22. Slow Attach Ensemble – Dance Four [Reliable Effects]
  23. Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion – The Flood Is Following Me [Nonesuch Records]
  24. Quest Ensemble – The Boatman [PFT Records]
  25. Group Listening – Wenn Der Südwind Weht [PRAH]
  26. Felbm – Tandem [Soundway]
  27. Wilson Tanner – Before Lotus [Growing Bin Records]

Listen to Mary Lattimore’s title track from upcoming album Silver Ladders

22 September 2020

Photo: Rachael Pony Cassells

Mary Lattimore is set to release her new album Silver Ladders next month and she had already enticed us with two sublime singles, ‘Sometimes He’s In My Dreams’ and ‘Pine Trees’. Ahead of the album release October 9th through Ghostly International, the experimental composer and harpist has shared the gorgeous title track. Lattimore offers some insight into it below:

“Silver Ladders was written about this place in Croatia on the island of Hvar, where the sea was deep greeny-blue and you could float with all of the people from the town. There were all of these ladders from the stone path right into the water. I thought it was the most beautiful place on Earth, as a person who loves to swim. I was hired to play a wedding in Big Sur, another breathtaking spot, and the rugged coast reminded me of my time in Croatia, so this melody came to me as I was warming up for the wedding. I recorded it on my phone and that’s where the song came from.

This was one we tried to recreate it in the studio, but the demo sounded better and purer. The ending was smudgy and watercolory already but I tried to describe to Neil what I wanted from it, even more strange and suspended in the air, and he pulled some wizardry and made it sound just how I’d imagined it. The demos I made with the idea that he was the one to fulfill what the song was asking for with techniques I didn’t know how to manifest but could kind of amorphously describe. He really “got it” and that’s why we were a good team, along with his beautiful new ideas (especially adding all the bass synth) that really worked with the vibe.”

Listen to ‘Silver Ladders’ below.

Mary Lattimore shares new single ‘Pine Trees’

02 September 2020

Photo: Rachael Pony Cassells

Earlier this summer, Mary Lattimore announced the release of a new album entitled Silver Ladders, following her acclaimed 2018 Hundreds of Days. The record came to life with the help of Slowdive’s Neil Halstead, whom she met at one of her festival appearances. The LA-based experimental composer and harpist had previously shared the sublime ‘Sometimes He’s In My Dreams’, and she is enticing us again with new single ‘Pine Trees’. Lattimore had this to say about it:

“Pine Trees is named after a quiet cluster of trees by the sea on the island of Hvar in Croatia. This song was created in Los Angeles at home, but crystallized in the studio with Neil’s help, where he took away layers of the demo that felt unnecessary, bringing out other layers to the front that had been hidden. This song feels like a testament to his producing in that, through more objective listening, a subtler light could shine through that I hadn’t seen in it before.”

Listen to ‘Pine Trees’ below an grab the album when it’s out on October 9th through Ghostly International.

Mary Lattimore announces new album, Silver Ladders, and shares first single

17 July 2020

There’s a new album on the way from LA-based experimental composer and harpist Mary Lattimore. Entitled Silver Ladders, it is set for release on October 9th through Ghostly International and follows her acclaimed 2018 Hundreds of Days, which she toured extensively internationally. In one of her shows at a festival, Lattimore met Slowdive’s Neil Halstead, and invited him to produce the upcoming album. “A friend introduced us because she knew how big of a fan I was and Neil and I had a little chat… The next day, I just thought maybe he’d be into producing my next record, ” Lattimore explained. “I flew on a little plane to Newquay in Cornwall where he lives with his lovely partner Ingrid and their baby. I didn’t know what his studio was like, he’d never recorded a harp, but somehow it really worked.”

‘Sometimes He’s In My Dreams´, a track she wrote collaboratively with Halstead, is the first sublime single to be let loose and Lattimore had this to say about it:

“It’s a song borne from a long improvisation – it was a section we both liked out of a longer piece. After I finished playing, Neil shaped it and looped part of it and then added his dreamy guitar line. What started out as simple meandering solo harp with a ricocheting delay got a little deeper and more fully formed with Neil’s help. It’s probably my favorite part of the record because it’s nothing I would’ve thought to do, having made a lot of music on my own on the past. Plus, that guitar!”

Listen to ‘Sometimes He’s In My Dreams’ below.