Back in August, Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio announced the release of a new 5-track EP titled On The Turning Ground and shared the first exquisitely beautiful and beaming single ‘The Turning Ground’. Now the trio of Tara Clerkin and brothers Sunny-Joe Paradiso and Patrick Benjamin have shared a second spellbinding cut called ‘Marble Walls’ and you can check it out below.
On The Turning Ground is out on November 3rd through World of Echo
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Tara Clerkin Trio‘s In Spring EP was one of the most thrilling surprises of 2021 so we’re excited to know the trio of Tara Clerkin and brothers Sunny-Joe Paradiso and Patrick Benjamin have a new EP on the way. Entitled On The Turning Ground, the 5-track EP comprises “26 minutes of probing, thoughtful composition that draws from no one specific source”, as the press release describes. Their Bristol hometown serves as an anchor to their magnetic compositions, attuned to the city’s “rich musical heritage built on fwd-facing electronic subcultures and experimental urges”.
On The Turning Ground arrives on November 3rd through World of Echo and Tara Clerking Trio have today shared the first single, ‘The Turning Ground’, an exquisitely beautiful and beaming euphony of sound. The band made a video to accompany it and you can watch it below.
We fell under the spell of Tara Clerkin Trio and their experimental and hypnotic compositions drawing from a wealth of genres, from jazz, folk and dub to trip hop and downtempo electronica. The band's recently released In Spring EP is one of the most thrilling surprises of this year, so we’re over the moon to have Tara Clerkin and brothers Sunny-Joe Paradiso and Patrick Benjamin orchestrate this month’s wondrous mixtape with a very special selection of tracks. Aptly titled In In Spring, here's how the band went about making their selection:
"Each of us picked a song for each track from our new e.p In Spring that directly influenced us or we borrowed from in some way."
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This Friday will see the release of In Spring, the new 4-track EP from Bristol based group Tara Clerkin Trio. After sharing the magnificent and mesmerizing title track, the trio of Tara Clerkin and brothers Sunny-Joe Paradiso and Patrick Benjamin have shared another cut from the EP called ‘Night Steps’, and an accompanying video. Speaking about it, the band explains:
“This is a woman, walking through the city at night. She’s thinking deeply about everything, sometimes existing in the present, sometimes in her memories, always set on the same streets. She craves the fleeting feeling when she can so easily mistake herself for anyone else walking by, any of the buildings, a cat in a window. She reaches the beach at the edge of her city as the sun’s coming up. And looks longingly at the horizon as the city wakes up behind her.”
Ron MacRae and Tim Webb animate and direct. Watch the video below.
In Spring is out on October 1st through World of Echo
Photo: Cloé Brunerie
We weren’t familiar with Bristol based group Tara Clerkin Trio up until now but they caught our ears on first listen, with their experimental and hypnotic compositions, flirting with a lot of genres like jazz, folk, dub, trip hop and downtempo electronica. With an eponymous debut album under their collective belt, the trio of Tara Clerkin and brothers Sunny-Joe Paradiso and Patrick Benjamin have announced their second release, a 4-track EP titled In Spring. The EP is described as “a record of subtle contrasts, experimental yet familiar in its intimacy, obviously modern though tied to certain lineages, and driven by a pop logic which is also free-form and seemingly improvised.”
In Spring arrives on October 1st through World of Echo but we can already get lost in their music with the magnificent and mesmerizing title track.