Across a breadth of recordings, collaborations and art commissions her music explores a realm of wordless narratives and indefinite travelogues, where – with the help of effects and occasional vocals - extended harp improvisations morph into spectral songforms. In live performance she reveals the impressionist magic of her chosen instrument, blurring classical technique and ambient electronics to beguiling effect.
Mary Lattimore⤬
Mary Lattimore is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses her Lyon and Healy concert grand harp to conjure up beautifully abstracted forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions.
'The harp innovator experiments with an arsenal of new instruments - including her voice - on an album of ambient music as complex and meditative as the work of Pauline Oliveros' — Pitchfork
In 2018 Mary released Hundreds of Days, her second LP on Ghostly International, as well as a collaborative album with Meg Baird entitled Ghost Forests (Three Lobed). She has moved a long way since her classical studies at Eastman School of Music, via days in Philadelphia with the likes of Espers and Fursaxa and sound-making time with Steve Gunn, Sharon van Etten and Kurt Vile. She has also collaborated with guitarist/synth player Jeff Zeigler on their 2014 album Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey) as well as composing a live score for Philippe Garrels' 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur which they subsequently toured together.
'In a series of increasingly absorbing collaborative LPs and records under her own name, she has learned to paint pictures of landscapes and express mixed emotions without a word... in rather short order, Lattimore has become one of the country's most compelling soloists' — NPR
Tour dates
10.08.19
Copenhagen, DK
Badesøen Festival
11.08.19
Helsinki, FI
Flow Festival
29.08.19
London, UK
Courtyard Theatre
31.08.19
Berlin, DE
Kiezsalon @ Kunsthaus Dahlem
07.11.19 — 08.11.19
Utrecht, NL
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