Memory Drawings on 'End of a Season' sampler
'End Of A Season - a Second Language label sampler' : 39+ minutes of new and exclusive music from The Cloisters, Richard Moult, Memory Drawings, Mark Fry/The A Lords, Directorsound, Tyneham House, Piano Magic, Klima, Glen Johnson, The Home Current and Aine O'Dwyer. Existing Second Language subscribers will receive this compilation FREE with Richard Moult's Yclypt album. Non-subscribers can buy it (for £5!) from :
http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL018x.html
On the road

We will be on the road for a small number of concerts in the UK in September. Please see dates below.
September 2012
12 - Books for Amnesty, YORK (w. Ten).
13 - Wharf Chambers, LEEDS (w.Maggie 8, Ithaca Trio, Ten ) Info - http://www.wharfchambers.org.
14 - Cafe Kino, BRISTOL (w. Many Fingers, Ten, Headfall) Info - http://www.cafe-kino.com.
15 - Split Festival [Secret Venue TBA), SUNDERLAND (w. Matt Stalker, Fables, Deerhart). Info - http://www.splitfestival.com/home.htm.
16 - Sacred Trinity Chapel, SALFORD (w. riverrun, J.Collin) Info - http://www.littleredrabbit.co.uk/trinity.htm
There is a Facebook page which will keep you updated on ticket information.
Going......going.....
We hear on the grapevine that 'Music For Another Loss' has now sold out. This is, of course, terrific news BUT as Second Language do not re-press then this will be the end of the run forever.
A few copies re available direct from Norman Records so move quick.
We have procured a small amount for our upcoming UK tour (dates to follow shortly).
Music For Another Loss
ORDER HERE
Memory Drawings is the beguiling, drum-less project of Minneapolis-raised, Morocco-based hammered dulcimer player Joel Hanson, erstwhile Hood guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and sometime Declining Winter main-man Richard Adams, and Lanterns on the Lake/Brave Timbers violinist Sarah Kemp.
Partly inspired by Adams’ native West Yorkshire landscape
(particularly as enshrined in Ted Hughes’ and Fay Godwin’s 1979
poetry/photography essay Remains of Elmet), Music For Another Loss maps the contours between brooding
melancholy and redemptive calm. It’s an equipoise reflected in a musical
signature which simultaneously suggests both classical minimalism and
hearth-side folk, but which, tantalizingly, is never quite either. With
Hanson’s exotic dulcimer peals always at the core, framed in Adams’ and Kemps’
halos of poignant melody and harmony (here and there augmented by guest
keyboardists Rachel Grimes, of Rachel’s, and Gareth S. Brown, along with the
occasional trace of vocals from Yvonne Bruner) this is a seductive, watercolour
music whose true potency lies in its subtlety, but which gets right under the
skin from first listen, nonetheless.
While Memory Drawings is an ostensibly instrumental project, Music
For Another Loss also
features a second disc comprising Yvonne Bruner-led vocal versions of many of
the first disc’s tracks, alongside a clutch of total reinvention remixes by
Rachel Grimes, Dakota Suite, Piano Magic (featuring Disco Inferno’s Ian Crause
on guitar) and Bracken.
May 2012
We are pleased to announce that 'Music For Another Loss' will be released later this week on Second Language
Purchasing details and further info will follow but for now please enjoy a video for its penultimate track 'Chinese History of Colden Water'.
April 2012
There's been a slight hitch is getting our debut CD ready and out into the world but we now hope it is a mere matter of weeks away. The packaging is elaborate as you may expect from the label we have aligned ourselves with.
We are working on videos and as well as the album there will be a couple of web only bonus tracks which can only be found here.
More news soon
January 2012
Our album has been mastered, polished, given the once over by a clever man in Denmark and has been sent to the record company. We await news of what happens next. In the meantime we are planning a few shows in September 2012. If you can help please look at our page on the Sleepsound (our nice booking people) website and get in touch!
November 2011

As the last leaves descend from the Robinia tree in the back lane and the plains of Yorkshire are shrouded in mist, we have finally delivered our album via the internet wires, down to the big smoke for the pop people to do their thing. Artwork ideas are being teased out of various old looking objects while we are awaiting the completion of two exciting remixes.
photo: www.bradleyhanson.com
October 2011
August 2011 part 2
August 2011
July 2011
While he was here we started writing for our second album, below is lo fidelity footage of Joel performing a short piece (listen carefully and you may be able to hear something)
March 2011
February 2011
November 2010
October 2010
Chinese History of Colden Water
The demonstration tape of 'Chinese History of Colden Water'
Chinese History of Colden Water by Memory Drawings
Chinese History of Colden Water by Memory Drawings
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