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ARTIST
TIME IS AWAY
TITLE
Ballads
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
A COLOURFUL STORM
CATALOG #
ACOLOUR 041LP
ACOLOUR 041LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
12/2/2022
Over the better half of a decade,
Time is Away
, the London-based duo of
Jack Rollo
and
Elaine Tierney
, have made tender and heartfelt transmissions through countless mixes, sound works, and radio. Exploring deeply human themes of memory, persistence, and resistance using an assemblage of source material, the duo's unique mode of storytelling culminates in
Ballads
, a new suite of songs and, significantly, their first officially licensed compilation. From the opening notes of
Horvitz Morris Previte Trio
's jazz romanticism to
Gilles Chabenat
and
Frédéric Paris
's lively reimagined standard, the haunting vocal seance of
Tanto Pressanto
and the mesmerizing swirls of
The Unthanks
,
Yuko Kono
, and
Rachel Bonch-Bruevich
, the spirit of
Ballads
roams through generations of affectionate songwriting and conjures images both candid and surreal. The voice of poet and longtime collaborator
Christina Petrie
appears briefly and contemplates the "sighs and replies... the space between verses" of the ballad, its beauty, its place in our lives. What is the ballad but a reflection of our soul? "Perhaps I'll wander in search of it", she bittersweetly concedes. At the suite's cusp is an alternate version of
David Lang
's "Just (After Song of Songs)", a thirteen-minute meditation on devotion which featured in
Paolo Sorrentino
's
Youth
(2015). The track's universal themes of faith and desire radiate throughout and elucidate Time is Away's peerlessly precise yet gossamer touch. Also features
Christmas Decorations
,
Antonietta Borgoli
,
Merula
,
Stella Vander
, and
Hydroplane
.
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