Composer Laurie Tompkins shares a video for a track from his forthcoming collaborative album, featuring Still House Plants vocalist Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach
UK composer and Slip co-founder Laurie Tompkins is set to release three albums this Spring. As well as an album with Eliza McCarthy via Entr'acte, plus another with McCarthy and Ashley Paul via Hyperdelia, Tompkins will also present Fatty – a project which started life in 2019 as an installation and performance series at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The series of shows was performed in collaboration with Still House Plants vocalist Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach, and took place in a set designed by artist Joel Wycherley.
“In summer 2019, Jess, Joel and I worked for a week in Aldeburgh [Suffolk]”, says Tompkins over email. “Jess sung from something like a porch out to grouted icons and my scrubby violin.The music is like a saggy flickbook”, he continues, “- we find a zone, inhabit it, then push on.” “Gaz” – here accompanied by a new video by Wycherley – is a studio version of the music Hickie-Kallenbach and Tompkins created on the residency.
Now presented as a recorded album, Fatty's group of contributing artists has since expanded, with other tracks featuring Teresa Winter, Gwilly Edmondez, Otto Willberg and others. “It’s a songbook that lags then flies”, Tompkins adds, “lifted up by friends.”
Fatty is released via 33-33 on 13 May
