{"product_id":"hilary-woods-night-criu-cd","title":"Hilary Woods - Night Criu CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing two acclaimed experimental instrumental records in Feral Hymns\r\n(2021) and Acts of Light (2023), Hilary Woods returns on her new LP Night\r\nCRIÚ, to song form and most notably, to her voice. Relearning how to use\r\nit, and crafting songs centred around it, Night CRIÚ's intimate ecosystem of\r\nseven songs uses vocal harmony and the annunciation of lyrics as ways to\r\nre-enter the body, to speak to and make the unconscious conscious.\r\nA ceremony of light and shade, Night CRIÚ is a record that riles against blud-\r\ngeoning monoculture in it's reclaiming and mourning a lost innocence all at\r\nonce. Woods' sonic palette is both dynamic and vulnerable, in it's reaching\r\nto integrate lost and splintered parts of the whole. Unmoored sonic threads\r\nrecall the cracks, fringes, forgotten agency and layered dormant personas that\r\nsurface at night, waiting to be retrieved and integrated come daylight.\r\nInspired and energised by many things including the revival of indigenous\r\nlanguage, a personal history of attending parades and processions, early Irish\r\nmusic, the joy in Northern Soul dancing, aspects of Czech and early Italian\r\ncinema, the immediacy of sound, and the rising up of a present moment\r\ncollective in their vocalising and standing up for what it means to be human\r\nin the face of tyranny and oppression, Night CRIÚ was recorded between the\r\nwest coast of Ireland, Dublin, London and in part Latvia between 2023 and\r\nJanuary 2025. Canticles for voice, brass, strings, electronics, field recordings,\r\ntexture, synths and piano, these songs were chosen from many early home re-\r\ncordings that Woods held up as mirrors of juxtaposition to each other. Writ-\r\nten and produced by Hilary Woods, Night CRIÚ is mixed by Dean Hurley\r\nwith additional production by Dean Hurley and Oliver Turvey, mastered\r\nby Brian Lucey, and featuring work by Hannah Fallon, Hangleton Brass\r\nBand, Gabriel Ferrandini and Ajo Gonsenica.\r\n\"Each record is a life buoy, a snapshot, a marker in the sand, a date that re-\r\nquires me to meet it\" according to Woods, \"A raft, at once cathartic, buoyant\r\nand playful, making records is a way of being\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVoce\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFaults\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEndgames\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrightly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOfferings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShelter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46920656158977,"sku":"843563189542","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/9063\/4497\/files\/4454110-3444051.jpg?v=1763172698","url":"https:\/\/factoryrecords.com\/products\/hilary-woods-night-criu-cd","provider":"Factory Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}