The Hermes Experiment’s third Delphian album is a meditation on nature, memory and change. Commissioned works and vivid reimaginings are complemented by new compositions by the ensemble’s members, exploring the human instinct to find emotional meaning in the natural world – in birdsong, trees, storms, stars … With its distinctive line-up of clarinet, harp, voice and double bass, the ensemble creates a soundscape by turns intimate, luminous and strange. Joy and grief, fragility and resilience sit side by side in a programme that feels both personal and elemental.
TREE is a celebration of interconnectedness – between text and music, self and surroundings – brought to life by one of the UK’s most original chamber groups.