Name: Awake But Always Dreaming
Brand: Hannah Peel

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Limited edition

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2016-09-23

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Hannah Peel

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Modern Composition

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My Own Pleasure

Hannah Peel is an Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger based in London, England. With her diverse musical talents, she has established herself as a prominent figure in the music industry.

Peel's unique sound draws inspiration from various genres and artists such as *Jane Weaver*, *Rozi Plain*, *The Unthanks*, and *The Magnetic North*. Her compositions are known for their intricate arrangements and captivating melodies.

Collaborating with renowned performers like *Manchester Collective*, *Gwenno*, and the *Ligeti Quartet*, Peel has showcased her versatility as an artist. She has also worked alongside talented musicians including *Anna Meredith* and *James Holden* to create mesmerizing pieces of music.

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Produced and recorded with long-term collaborator Erland Cooper, with orchestrations by Peel, both in their own, richly analogue studio in Shoreditch, London and at Attica Audio in County Donegal, Ireland, her new solo album Awake But Always Dreaming is a record about memory: the luminous and beautiful formation of memories and the devastating loss or slow, insidious damage to the mind. "I've read 1 in 3 of us will die with dementia, and a third of us are connected to someone with dementia through family and friends", says Hannah. "850,000 people in the UK alone have it now and 2 in 3 people affected will be women. It's quite remarkable really, and it's getting worse".

Peel has created an exquisite, distinct album of two halves, full of vibrant, direct colour in the early stages contrasted with esoteric, dreamscape, legato movements towards the end. The bright, raw magic and joy of personal relationships are set alongside the gradual loss of her grandmother to dementia. A childhood spent in the landscape of the Irish coast inspires a sense of openness in the music - places to roam and investigate - but there's also a complex, darker, percussive thrust to these songs, as adult city life intrudes and, in its own way, inspires. The album has the feel of a dream where all of daily life is being expressed and decoded, from feverish rush-hours to the old sunlight of her grandmother's fading memories. Peel switches from panoramic city images in 'Standing On The Roof Of The World' to the dissolving, hallucinogenic moments that define the second half of the album. The album's closer is a cover of Paul Buchanan's (The Blue Nile) 'Cars In The Garden' which returns memory to childhood - "find the place that we forgot." Performed with her trademark music box and by way of a sublimely coaxed out, bittersweet duet with Hayden Thorpe from Wild Beasts, this is another fine shift in tone and perspective - from the grandeur and chaos of 'Foreverest' to something very simple, surreal and yet utterly moving and memorable.

Awake But Always Dreaming

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