Elliot Galvin - The Ruin (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

"This album is the most personal I’ve made to date. Named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon poem from the 9th century AD about the former glory of an unnamed ruined city, “The Ruin” is inspired by the feeling of living in England (“a country that feels like a living ruin”), the bleak landscape of where I grew up (Medway towns), and a kind of self-portrait reflecting how we all live amongst the ruins of our past selves both collectively and individually. All the musical material on “The Ruin” is taken from iPhone recordings of improvisations that I played on my first-ever piano – bought using money left by my late grandfather. The whole album is structured cyclically so that it gradually builds up and crumbles away, starting and finishing with solo piano. To this end, the very beginning of the album starts with a reversed iPhone recording of me improvising a melody on this piano and ends with this same recording playing forwards."

TRACKLIST

1. Elliot Galvin - A House, A City
2. Elliot Galvin - From Beneath
3. Elliot Galvin - Still Under Storms
4. Elliot Galvin - Gold Bright
5. Elliot Galvin - Stone Houses
6. Elliot Galvin - High and Wide
7. Elliot Galvin - In Concentric Circles
8. Elliot Galvin - As If By Weapons
9. Elliot Galvin - Giants Corrupted
10. Elliot Galvin - Fell Broadly
11. Elliot Galvin - These Walls



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