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





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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

As the Indian summer turns to rain and high winds we are making final tweaks to the album before it gets delivered to the record label later this month.










August 2011 part 2

We've had stunning remixes in from Bracken (Anticon) and
Rachel Grimes (Rachel's). We continue to mix, mix, mix.

August 2011


While the weather here in North Yorkshire resembles deepest winter, its surely warmer in Kentucky where Rachel has laid down some beautiful, sparkling piano to what will become the opening track 'The Canal's Drowning Black'

July 2011

Joel travelled to historic York to finish up the recording for what will be our debut album 'Music For Another Loss'. We hope it will see the light of day before the year is out.

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)




May 2011

In May the lovely Sarah Kemp added more gorgeous swathes of violin to the equation.

March 2011


Its getting brighter outside at last. We are finishing and mixing our album. We now have a home for it
and expect it will be out before the winter. We are all quite excited.

February 2011


We have been in the studio trying to mix some of the tracks. We are also experimenting with an American vocalist. We are outsourcing artwork. We are sending out demo's to potential labels.

November 2010

Yesterday Gareth S Brown attended the ongoing recording sessions to add piano and accordion. The accordion was a two man operation with Gareth playing and Richard holding the contraption so it didn't slip out of his grasp. It was held together with sellotape. The piano was even more complicated with Gareth playing it without being able to hear the track whilst Richard nodded at him to tell him when to play. The results are great though and we think almost all the recording is done save one track.

October 2010

As the leaves fall, we continue work on our debut album. We hope it will see the light of day in early 2011.


September 2010

We spent the first week of september recording our debut album. Some studio shots are below.







Chinese History of Colden Water

The demonstration tape of 'Chinese History of Colden Water'

Chinese History of Colden Water by Memory Drawings

first gig september 4th cardigan arms leeds



Brave Timbers


Gareth S Brown


Memory Drawings




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