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Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (2021) [Official Digital Download]

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Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 68:09 minutes | 604 MB
New Age, Ambient, Modern Classical, Harp | Label: Ghostly International, Official Digital Download

In the afterglow of her acclaimed 2020 album *Silver Ladders* (a year-end favorite of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and others), Los Angeles-based harpist and composer Mary Lattimore returns with a culminating counterpart release, *Collected Pieces: 2015-2020.

The limited-edition LP sequences selections from her two rarities collections, *Collected Pieces I* (2017) and *Collected Pieces II* (2020), bringing archive highlights and fan favorites to vinyl and CD for the first time. Lattimore has described the process of arranging these releases as akin to “opening a box filled with memories,” and here that box continues to populate, accessible for both the artist and fans. Evocative material separated by years, framed as a portrait of an instrumental storyteller who rarely pauses, recording and often sharing music as soon as it strikes her. Seemingly in constant forward motion for the last five years since her Ghostly debut, Lattimore glances back for a breath, inviting new chances to live in these fleeting moments and emotions; all the beauty, sorrow, sunshine, and darkness housed within.

A familiar harp sequence opens the set, making its first vinyl appearance is “Wawa By The Ocean,” Lattimore’s ode to her favorite convenience store, Wawa #700 in Ship Bottom, New Jersey. “Twelve summers of solo trips to Ship Bottom and it hasn't really changed. I'll always visit it in my dreams,” Lattimore said upon its initial release, and surely that beachside landmark still appears each time this delightful pattern unfolds, hoagies and all. Next is a newer single, “We Wave From Our Boats,” which she improvised after walking her neighborhood during the early days of lockdown in 2020, and shared on her Bandcamp. “I would just wave at neighbors I didn't know in a gesture of solidarity and it reminded me of how you’re compelled to wave at people on the other boat when you’re on a boat yourself, or on a bridge or something. The pull to wave feels very innate and natural.” The heart of the track is a somber loop, over top which Lattimore’s synth notes ruminate, each a gentle shimmer of optimism in the most anxious and absurd of days.

Also recorded in 2020, “What The Living Do” is inspired by Marie Howe’s poem of the same name, which reflects on loss through an appreciation for the mundane messiness of being human. The echoed, slow-marching track has a distant feel to it, as if the listener is outside of it, watching life play out as a film. “Princess Nicotine (1909)” scores actual footage, a dream sequence Lattimore imagined for J. Stuart Blackton’s surreal silent film. She adopted the same approach for “Polly of the Circus,” explaining it was the name of one of the old silent films discovered in permafrost in the Yukon [featured in the documentary *Dawson City: Frozen Time*], “the only copy that survived and it kind of warped in the aging process.”

“Mary, You Were Wrong” mirrors an author’s bout with a broken heart. “It’s about how you have to keep on going even if you make some mistakes,” she says. The bittersweet refrain cycles throughout, a little brighter every time, slowly, like the way time tends to heal.

A trove of pieces are collected here, most recorded in the moment, just Lattimore and her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand Harp, contact mics, and pedals. There’s the one about the late Twin Peaks actress Margaret Lanterman (“We Just Found Out She Died”), the American astronaut’s homecoming (“For Scott Kelly, Returned To Earth”), the joke about the cannibal’s wife (“The Warm Shoulder”), the Charlie Chaplin-like character who lost their glasses (“Be My Four Eyes”), and the high school kids driving their shiny cars in a parking lot (“Your Glossy Camry”). Like her most affecting work, these songs showcase Lattimore’s gifts as an observer, able to shape her craft around emotional frequencies and scenes. Her power as a musician is rooted in how she sees the world: in vivid detail, profoundly empathic, with deep gratitude for nature and nuance.

Tracklist:
1. Wawa by the Ocean (10:28)
2. We Wave From Our Boats (03:50)
3. For Scott Kelly, Returned To Earth (06:05)
4. Your Glossy Camry (07:06)
5. Be My Four Eyes (13:16)
6. Pine Trees (Home Recording) (03:32)
7. We Just Found Out She Died (04:28)
8. What The Living Do (05:42)
9. Polly Of The Circus (03:44)
10. The Warm Shoulder (04:55)
11. Mary, You Were Wrong (04:58)

foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2021-10-31 14:02:29

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Analyzed: Mary Lattimore / Collected Pieces: 2015-2020
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 -0.20 dB -8.87 dB 10:29 01-Wawa by the Ocean
DR7 -0.22 dB -10.44 dB 3:50 02-We Wave From Our Boats
DR7 -0.21 dB -10.51 dB 6:05 03-For Scott Kelly, Returned To Earth
DR9 -0.20 dB -13.27 dB 7:06 04-Your Glossy Camry
DR6 -0.21 dB -9.61 dB 13:16 05-Be My Four Eyes
DR8 -0.21 dB -10.31 dB 3:33 06-Pine Trees (Home Recording)
DR8 -0.20 dB -10.97 dB 4:29 07-We Just Found Out She Died
DR6 -0.22 dB -10.54 dB 5:43 08-What The Living Do
DR8 -0.21 dB -10.49 dB 3:44 09-Polly Of The Circus
DR8 -0.20 dB -11.17 dB 4:56 10-The Warm Shoulder
DR9 -0.21 dB -11.54 dB 4:58 11-Mary, You Were Wrong
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR7

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1266 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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