Next Monday 17 June sees the release of the second single from the upcoming ‘How To Read A City [Your Place Of Last Resort] album featuring the renowned Acacia Quartet. ‘On Love Lost Days’ is a more introspective piece and shows the intimacy and nuance a great quartet can bring to the table. Mixed again by Benji Fowler and mastered at Studio 301 it is based on the poetry cycle of Australian Author and Musician Elizabeth Walton with another stunning painting by Jay Manby Thanks to Create NSW
Praise so far
“Richard Lawson is working with the Acacia Quartet in his new album “How To Read a City (Your Place of Last Resort)” and has released the title track from the album as a single. In this piece, Lawson is using the whole gamut of possible sounds from a string quartet. The central theme travels between the members of the quartet, it travels between plucked and bowed, it gives a feeling of difference within the whole.
This is a very clever use of the quartet, because while a whole city has an overarching feeling, within that feeling, there is difference, and the agility a string quartet can bring to the piece is able to capture that difference within the whole.
Lawson’s background as a drummer shows through in the percussive feel and silent pauses in the piece. Silence can create tension and add to the narrative of a piece, and you can feel that tension here. A city is silence as well as sound, and tension is always present. The very simplicity of a string quartet and how that can be transformed into complexity comes through in this piece. ‘How To Read A City’ is expressive, subtly impactful, and another brilliant piece from Richard Lawson.” John Lamp Geelong FM 94.7
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