Searchlight Moonbeam

Description

Searchlight Moonbeam is the new narrative compilation from Time Is Away (Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney), whose eponymous monthly NTS Radio broadcasts, blends of fleeting sounds and archival speech inducing reverie, have earned them a devoted audience. It follows the London duo's Ballads, a remarkable driftwork released on A Colorful Storm in 2022. Searchlight Moonbeam is an autumnal dreamscape, intimate and vespertine, pensive and unresolved. An imagined community where differences blur and resonances emerge - between Kasumi Trio, affiliated with Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Taiwanese composer Chen Ming Chang whose "Rainwater" (written for Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 1986 film Dust In The Wind) is deliciously sorrowful, and the floating improvisations of self-taught French pianist Delphine Dora. Searchlight Moonbeam is the musical analogue of an Italo Calvino novel or a medieval fable. Associative, intuitive, borderless. Emotional and mysterious. A private language both unrecognizable and understood. It is a recording of the seasons, for the seasons. 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Time Is Away's first broadcast.