Mary Lattimore live at St. Michael's Church, Newquay

Mary Lattimore is a Los Angeles-based harpist and composer. She experiments with effects through her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand pedal harp, concocting half-structured improvisations which can include both ambient glitter and unsettling noise.

Her solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Lattimore also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such great artists as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Ed Askew and Fursaxa.

In the beginning of 2020, she travelled to a wintery Newquay, where she recorded her critically-acclaimed album Silver Ladders with producer and guitarist Neil Halstead (Slowdive) over a span of nine days. Her signature style is refined, sprawling layers of harp reigned in and accented by flourishes of low-end synth and Halstead’s guitar. The music can feel ominous but not by compromising vivid wonder. The material is coloured by specific memories for Lattimore;

“Neil has this poster of a surfer in his studio and I'd look at it each day, looking at the sunlight glinting on the dark wave. In these songs I like the contrast between the dark lows and the glittering highs. The gloom and the glimmer, the opposites, a lively surfing town in the winter turned kinda rainy and empty and quiet.”

Mary’s show at St Michael’s Church promises to be a truly special evening. She’ll be joined by Neil Halstead on guitar to perform material from Silver Ladders (their second ever UK performance together), as well as performing a varied selection from her impeccable canon of work.

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