Rachel Ashby
we / some
born in vertigo, ours is a shifting ground… the vastness of uncertainty is a heavy thing, its deep undertow pulling always… we wrap ourselves in strangeness and tether to this in-between place… talking ruptures, so we listen instead for new sounds… blue chords that swell like the ocean, lifting us up towards an edge…
These are dissonant times, a prolonged period of crisis and discontinuity in which traditional conventions of social order are constantly being called into question. This fracture of shifting ideology, while a precarious and often dangerous ground, presents an opening - a space for marginalised narratives to come to the fore. As a generation defined by rupture, it is through our alienation that we might carve out our alternative: a new space to stand.
The album we / some was composed by Rachel Ashby using individually recorded sonic improvisations in response to these unstable times. With many thanks to the musicians involved: Ben Ashby (saxophone, clarinet), Albert Ashton (pounamu taonga on wooden floor), Eliza Beca (violin), Amelia Berry (synthesizer), Luke Kibblewhite (saxophone), Theo Macdonald (GarageBand), Lucian Mañetto-Munro (synthesizer), Bianca Rocca (amplified double bass, electric guitar, piano), Thomas Shoebridge (drums). Other instrumentation performed by Rachel Ashby.
