Hailed as ‘nature’s songwriter’, for his work celebrating themes of the natural world, place, people and time – radical Scottish composer Erland Cooper is determined to push his connection to the environment even further into unchartered new realms with his upcoming album, ‘Folded Landscapes’.
Cooper, who has always been comfortable merging music with evocative storytelling and conceptual art, now sets his sights on working through a lens of urgent observations surrounding climate change as the focal point for his upcoming album. Notably, his belief in finding solutions to complex problems between despair and the spirit of hope. Using drastic temperature changes – from sub-zero to hottest on record – he developed this piece for chamber string ensemble, piano, voice, harpsichord, electronics & field recordings.