On The Turning Ground, by Tara Clerkin Trio

On The Turning Ground

by Tara Clerkin Trio

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Amy Stretch Parker As a first track on an album this has to be up there. It sets the tone, a rocking buoy on the Bristol channel, a signal to sea. Brigstow is the landscape that sets the stage for the story to follow Favorite track: Brigstow.

Daniel Welsch „On The Turning Ground“ ist minimalistisch, setzt sich aber aus so heterogenen Elementen zusammen, dass die 26 Minuten voller Überraschungen stecken.

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Alan Robinson Wow, nothing short of amazing. Marble Walls is up there as one of the most beautiful, melodic and peaceful tunes I’ve ever heard!!

alfiescruff love love love...Marbles Walls is beautifully framed with the bass + strings...a devine record 🙏🏼

I'm a Not For Profit in Shrewsbury using churches....I've DM'd you via Insta for a 24 show..👊

Harrison Phinney dizzyingly good, must support. this trio is on trajectory for the stratosphere. bless Favorite track: Marble Walls.

Paulie C Presses all of my buttons, absolutely wonderful stuff and clearly part of the same Bristolean lineage as Movietone. Bliss! Favorite track: Marble Walls.

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1.	Brigstow 06:46	buy track
2.	World In Delay 03:59	buy track
3.	Marble Walls 05:33	buy track
4.	The Turning Ground 04:25	buy track
5.	Once Around 05:21	buy track

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Not far off two years from the day, Bristol's Tara Clerkin Trio return to World of Echo and the EP format for a five song collection of quixotic, emotional redolence. But do not mistake their absence for inertia. If their musical output has been a little sparse during those in-between years, limited to a few solo ventures and an astonishing ten minute long piece as a trio, their time has otherwise been richly spent: continuous writing and recording, extensive live performances across Europe and Japan, a cultivation of local and more far-flung artistic connections (musical and otherwise), and a monthly NTS show that, through the voice of others, speaks most obviously to their own unorthodox interests. It's the conflux of that winding activity that leads indirectly to On The Turning Ground, 26 minutes of probing, thoughtful composition that draws from no one specific source.

Their inspirations might be centreless, but the trio still possess a very obvious anchor in the form of their hometown. Bristol stands as a city of multitudes, heterogenous and vibrant in such a way as to allow it to renew and remake time and again. Tara Clerkin Trio drink from that same well, duly reflecting a rich musical heritage built on fwd-facing electronic subcultures and experimental urges. As such, On The Turning Ground finds them subject to their own subtle internal evolution, the pervasive sense that you've caught them mid-bloom, on their way to becoming but never anything but themselves.

The two instrumental pieces that bookend the EP stand as a perfect case in point, displaying an increasing mastery of compositional space. Pensive and restrained, 'Brigstow' and 'Once Around' both emanate an interstitial quality that's not so much after- as in-between-hours, miniature dub-folk symphonies held together by the kind of tacit understanding that remains the preserve of only the closest of family units. If those two tracks are shaped by a sense of shifting temporality, then the three vocal-led pieces that comprise the record's core feel like a gentle ossifying of aesthetic into something approaching their own unique form of avant-pop. 'Pop' is, of course, a broadly subjective concept, but there's no avoiding the overt sparkling melodicism of songs like 'Marble Walls' and 'The Turning Ground', undeniable re-directions of that late 90s impulse to bend pop sensibilities into off-centre terrain, to render the familiar new again. This is what Tara Clerkin Trio do, gently pulling the ground from under your feet, turning you to face something you'd not quite seen before. To view the world as they do: sideways, sometimes, all of the time.

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released November 3, 2023

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May 27

PINK

Stockport, UK
May 29

Wharf Chambers

Leeds, UK
May 30

Just Dropped In (FarGo Village)

Coventry, UK
May 30

Various Venues, London

London, UK
Jun 1

Cafe OTO

London, UK
Jun 2

The Hope and Ruin Brighton

Brighton, UK
Aug 15

Wimborne St Giles

Wimborne, UK
Nov 16

EartH

London, UK

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