Acts of Light, by Hilary Woods

Acts of Light

by Hilary Woods

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degelle From the very beginning it feels like you're being swallowed by a ghost then falling down a bottomless well. Favorite track: Burial Rites.

Barry Sullivan Dark haunting loneliness of what might have been. A true landscape for a street of crocodiles. Favorite track: Where the Bough Has Broken.

Win This is something truly special and unique. It gets inside my soul. Exquisite, powerful, deeply moving and evocative. A work of art Favorite track: Where the Bough Has Broken.

Sean Mesmerizing, meditative, and all of such a coherent piece that it forces me to put everything else aside and just listen. Favorite track: Blood Orange.

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1.	Burial Rites 02:47 video	buy track
2.	Wife Mother Lover Crow 03:25	buy track
3.	Where the Bough Has Broken 05:03 video	buy track
4.	Acts of Light 03:54	buy track
5.	Ochre 02:30	buy track
6.	Awakening 02:49	buy track
7.	Blood Orange 04:28	buy track
8.	The Foot of Love 02:51	buy track
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Acts of Light is a fugue comprised of nine slow hypnotic dirges.

Vulnerability, majesty, and candour elicited with drone, double bass, cello, synth, viola, field recordings, electronics, noise, vocals, processing and sacred choral chant compose its private ritual. Following excavations and explorations in intuition and physicality through sound which culminated in her 2021 EP Feral Hymns, Acts of Light is a disquiet personal offering to wilderness, loss, absence, mystery and love supreme.

Awakening hidden forms that emerge from the shadows with each listen, its rich and weighted lament is subterranean and chasmal whilst simultaneously detailed and tender. Textural dust and speckled light move slowly and expansively here through a deeply sonic and sensory rite of passage where Woods’ moving compositions confide in us feeling to be received with the entire body.

Written, recorded, mixed and produced over a span of two years along the west coast of Ireland and Dublin, Woods recorded the voices of Galway City Chamber Choir, before recording the choristers of the Palestrina Choir in the Pro Cathedral Dublin. Strings were recorded by Jo Berger Myhre in Oslo, whilst field recordings were recorded nomadically throughout her time spent traveling through the north west of Spain.

Credits:

All tracks written, recorded, mixed and produced by
Hilary Woods between the West Coast of Ireland and Dublin Ireland, 2020 - 2022

*except for double bass and cello recorded at Kennel Oslo by Jo Berger Myhre, and cello banjo performed and recorded by Francesco Turrisi

Synths, field recordings, noise, electronics, vocals, sampling, viola, textural percussion, processing – Hilary Woods
Double bass - Jo Berger Myhre
Cello - Kaja Fjellberg Pettersen

Tenor and bass vocals performed by Galway City Chamber Choir
Soprano and alto vocals performed by The Palestrina Boys Choir, Dublin

Bells recorded at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain and Séipéal Muire, Ireland

Mastered by Lasse Marhaug
Cover and Insert Photos by Deborah Sheedy

Design and Layout by Hannah Fallon.

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released November 3, 2023

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Apr 21

Roadburn Festival

Tilburg, Netherlands
Jun 3

BARdzo Bardzo

Warsaw, Poland
Jun 6

Paper Dress Vintage

London, UK

discography

Acts of Light

Nov 2023
Feral Hymns

Dec 2021
Birthmarks

Mar 2020
Colt

Jun 2018
Heartbox

Jun 2016
Night

Sep 2014

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