Wyndow: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Wyndow – Production and Promotion of Debut Album
Wyndow is a collaboration between established solo artists and composers Laura J Martin and Lavinia Blackwall. The project was ignited by a love of Robert Wyatt and an off hand idea of collaborating on a version of his song ‘Free Will and Testament’. In a time of weird interludes the self examination of the song’s lyrics opened the pathway to themes examined throughout the process of writing and recording, that of being and wanting and the battle between knowledge and knowing. “Who am I and do I see myself the way others see me?”
Already receiving strong support from BBC 6 Music (Marc Riley, Gideon Coe, Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe), the first three singles ‘Take My Picture’, ‘Two Strong Legs’ and ‘Pulling on a String’ reflect the smallest human experiences set against a galactic sonic canvas and gives an indication to the future direction of the currently being worked on album. With both voices to the foreground the songs take inspiration from the atmospheres and repetition of ecstatic minimalism and the joyful experimentation of Penguin Cafe Orchestra and are built from small fragments and loops, recorded spontaneously and sent to each other across the wires from their bases in Liverpool and Clydebank. Existing somewhere between waking and sleeping, these dog-eared musical postcards unfurl and engulf the listener in an uncanny sense of familiarity while drawing nearer to the beyond and the unknown.