HAWKSMOOR, by HAWKSMOOR

HAWKSMOOR

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henk3 Heard it on late night bbc3 august 22 2019 in soho house london. Haunting, melodic, brianenoish, softhatd

James Campbell It's a set of tracks about Hawksmoor churches. That made me buy it without listening to it first. Favorite track: Christ Church, Spitalfields (1714–29).

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1.	Act for the building of Fifty New Churches in the Cities of London and Westminster 1711 04:04	buy track
2.	St Alfege Church, Greenwich (1712–18) 03:57	buy track
3.	Christ Church, Spitalfields (1714–29) 05:36	buy track
4.	St. Anne's Limehouse (1714–30) 04:47	buy track
5.	St. George in the East (1714–29) 03:24	buy track
6.	St. George's Bloomsbury (1716–1731) 05:35	buy track
7.	St.Mary Woolnoth (1716–23) 04:03	buy track
8.	Anno Domini 1736 06:19	buy track

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Hawksmoor is a hauntological imaginary soundtrack which, like Iain Sinclair’s ‘Lud Heat’, is inspired by and explores the mysterious cartographic connections between the six Hawksmoor churches in London.

Hawksmoor’s churches when designed were deemed to be extremely radical in their architectural presentation using many esoteric symbols and tropes such as pyramids and obelisks, rather than the obvious traditional Christian shapes and symbols, a juxtaposition that seemed to contradict, perhaps even mock, the architectural vocabulary of traditional Christian churches. The striking combination of ancient, pre-Christian and pagan influences clearly demonstrated in his work, meant that Nicholas Hawksmoor’s own religious beliefs were often called into question.

Using a palette of Moog generated rhythms, melodies and textures combined with hypnotic basslines and ‘Basinski’ style decaying tape loops, the music has been composed as an 'imaginary soundtrack' that could be used or experienced as an immersive enhancement to an occult psychogeography of London.

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released January 12, 2018

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