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Mother Echo

by Rael Jones

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aotihav an emotional clarion sounding over the gulf. beautiful, powerful, moving music
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markcawthra I play this loads while working from home writing code. By turns it's tranquil yet full of drama, it pulls at your ears and your heart in equal measure. Love it. Favorite track: Valley of Desolation.
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Annie Sweet Some of the most heartrending and delicate music I've heard in so many years. Favorite track: Ascension Bells.
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Ian McKellar Rael is one of the most talented musicians and songwriters it has ever been my pleasure to meet, he's also a lovely bloke. How could I not love this?
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about

The sketches for all the pieces were written in the months following my mother’s death.
In some senses I lost her many years earlier.
She was in a car crash when I was 6 which left her in bed a lot and changed her dramatically, forever. I was terrified she wouldn’t be there anymore.
The artwork is based on a recurring nightmare I had repeatedly around this time:
I’m alone in my house being dragged inexplicably towards a strange figure - death in human form. It touches my shoulder, our feet lift off the ground, and we fly through the lounge, past my gathered relatives and out of the bay window....at which point I wake up.
The cover shows what lies past that window. It’s not so scary after all.
We scattered my mother’s ashes in the river at a place called ‘The Valley of Desolation’ (track 9). We placed old passports in her coffin to assist her on her metaphysical journey, as she would have it (track 10).
And so on and so on.
"If this generation is happier than the last, then we're doing ok. In us, you live on.”
The release date coincides with the 5th anniversary of her death, 17th of November 2020.

credits

released November 17, 2020

The album was recorded live at Air Studios, with me on piano, my heavily pregnant wife Sara on violin, and also:
2nd Violin - Marijie Johnston
Viola - Michael Gurevich
Cello - Brian O’Kane
Recorded in The Hall at Air Studios by Engineer Fiona Cruickshank
Pro Tools operator - John Prestage
Mixed by Al Green
Mastered by John Webber at Air Studios
Videos by Ashley Jones
Artwork drawings by Sam Warren
Artwork post-production by Ben Wren

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3 time Emmy nominated composer for Film & TV

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