Rising Water, by Timothy Fairless

Rising Water

by Timothy Fairless

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Featured on Late Junction and Unclassified BBC Radio 3.

"It’s undeniably impressive, working from such an abstract palette, Fairless achieves such a visceral recreation of the sounds and rhythms of the natural world. In a way it’s difficult to say whether you’re hearing the menace and beauty of a piece of music, or like the waters lapping at the doorstep, the inescapable sound of the encroaching world itself." - 4ZZZ
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In the wake of Brisbane's second record breaking flood in 11 years, local composer Timothy Fairless offers a timely examination of the beauty and menace of water. An album in three parts Rising Water is steeped in the storms, floods and downpours of the sub-tropics. Fairless' here composes with thick humid drones punctuated by swirling, eddying tones all derived from sounding glass vessels filled with water. From Wavemaking's' rippling machinations to Here Comes the Lanterns' ominously gathering drone and the choppy torrents of Shelter in Noise this album mediates on the complex nature of water: its drama and threat, as well as its textures, harmonics and tones.
In early March Fairless's hometown of Brisbane experienced a 'rain bomb' which saw more rain fall on the city in three days than London receives in a year. It was a phenomenon so dramatic and unprecedented experts struggled to describe it, a 'tsunami in the sky' it was called, an 'atmospheric river'. The skies above Brisbane contained more water than 16 Sydney Harbours The Guardian explained!
This bomb produced another record breaking flood, the second in recent memory. In the 2011 disaster Fairless's studio was flooded, his organ floating on the currents. In the rain bomb he was both better prepared and luckier with water surging up his street but not entering his home.
It is this context which has produced Rising Water a release which demands we see the beauty, textures and harmonics of water in the context of climate change. It enchants, terrifies, creates and destroys.

For more about Timothy visit: www.timothyfairless.com

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released May 27, 2022

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Timothy Fairless
Original artwork by Christopher Ahern
Design Timothy Fairless and Kate Carr
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Links to articles cited:
www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-03-10/floods-nsw-queensland-climate-change-worst-ever-natural-disaster/100894956
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/05/anatomy-of-a-rain-bomb-scientists-study-phenomenon-2022-australia-east-coast-floods

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