The Harpweaver (Maeve Gilchrist feat. Aizuri quartet and Kyle Sanna)

The Harpweaver is the title track of Maeve's 2020 release (OCTOBER 9TH)


AVAILABLE OCTOBER 9th | Pre-order your copy of the Harpweaver now!


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Harpist and composer Maeve Gilchrist’s new offering The Harpweaver hones in on the idea of artistic nostalgia. When we can’t be with those that we love; surely the next best thing is to experience the catharsis of familiar sounds? Notes and words that bring a sense of connection, possibility and joy.

Originally from Scotland, Gilchrist has been making her mark as a ground-breaking harpist in the US for the last seventeen years through her collaborations with artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, The Silkroad Project, Nic Gareiss, Viktor Krauss, Darol Anger, Solas and Okkyung Lee, but this album breaks new ground for her as she steps into her own as a composer and producer to illuminate her roots as a traditional folk musician through the prism of luscious string parts, electronic manipulation and an archived recitation of The Ballad of the Harpweaver, by the poet who became a celebrity of Jazz-Age America, Edna St Vincent Millay.

“My first impression of this poem, from the 1923 Pulitzer-award-winning collection by the American poet Edna St Vincent Millay, was not of a tale of bleak circumstance but of the power of... more
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releases October 9, 2020

Composed, produced and arranged by Maeve Gilchrist


Featuring:

Kyle Sanna | acoustic and electric guitar

The Aizuri string quartet:

Emma Frucht | Violin

Miho Saegusa | Violin

Ayane Kozasa | Viola

Karen Ouzounian | Cello

Selected lines from The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1923) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, courtesy of the Millay Society (millay.org)

Recorded and mixed by Eli Crews at Figure 8 Recording (Brooklyn, NY), Rivington 66 (New York, NY), and Spillway Sound (West Hurley, NY).

Sound design and additional engineering by Charlie Van Kirk

Mastered by Alan Douches, West West Side Music NY


Cover art design by Tamsin Wilson


Cover photography by Krysta Brayer