Erland Cooper - New album

Erland Cooper - New album "Carve The Runes Then Be Content With Silence"

Erland Cooper’s new release blends nature, mystery, and a unique recording process.

September 20, 2024

Inspired by natural landscapes and reflections on time, hope, community, and patience, Erland Cooper’s latest work Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence follows an extraordinary path from creation to release.

Recorded just once on a single ¼-inch magnetic tape and with all digital files permanently deleted, this album was then “planted” in the earth to grow, decompose, and be “recomposed” by nature itself. Cooper revealed a series of clues for fans to track down the buried recording at each equinox, promising to retrieve it himself in three years if left undiscovered.

However, in late 2022, the tape was unearthed by fans Victoria and Dan Rhodes during a dedicated search. To mark this discovery, the album will be carefully digitized during a spring equinox ceremony, capturing the sounds exactly as nature has altered them. This unique recording will then be finalized and performed by live musicians in special concerts across the UK, Europe, and America, celebrating a truly collaborative composition between the artist and the earth.

Listen to the album here.

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Album
Carve The Runes Then Be Content With Silence

Artist
Erland Cooper

Release date
September 20, 2024

Label
Universal Music Operations Ltd

Formats
Digital | CD | Limited Edition LP

Tracklist
1. Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence (Full Version)
2. Carve the Runes (Mvt. 1) - Pt. 1 “bouncing and bending in the harbour”
3. Carve the Runes (Mvt. 1) - Pt. 2 “through that yellow spindrift”
4. Carve the Runes (Mvt. 1) - Pt. 3 “you must dance in a beautiful coat”
5. Then Be Content (Mvt. 2) - Pt. 1 “song of the five seas”
6. Then Be Content (Mvt. 2) - Pt. 2 “driftweed scored the strings”
7. Then Be Content (Mvt. 2) - Pt. 3 “walking through heather and peat”
8. With Silence (Mvt. 3) - Pt. 1 “con la memoria”
9. With Silence (Mvt. 3) - Pt. 2 “wow and flutter of unearthed magnetic tape”
10. With Silence (Mvt. 3) - Pt. 3 “our winter jar”
11. With Silence (Mvt. 3) - Pt. 4 “sunwards turn”