Milan-based Singer-songwriter QUARRY has unveiled his new single âThis Is The Storyâ, taken from forthcoming LP ‘Positioning The Sunâ (out 14 October, via Lowfieye Records).Â
With airy instrumentals, minimalist analog synths, steady acoustic guitars and gauzy vocals that descend into dramaturgic choruses, âThis Is The Storyâ deftly balances the line between ethereal and enormous.Â
The first song written for the new LP, the song tells the tale of a video chat between two friends. âOne is depressed and is slipping into the quicksand of malaise,â Quarry explains, âwhile the other tries to lead him away from darkness and the dangerous no-go zone.âÂ
An emotive track that feels simultaneously overcast and edged with optimism, âThis Is The Storyâ is an incandescent introduction to the album as a whole. Packed out with tracks that have an urgent tone and dark energy, for every downtrodden mood thereâs a euphoric opposite: Quarry offers visions that embrace a multiplicity of meanings.Â
Chiming with the songâs themes of isolation and communication, the single arrives with a moving official video. Directed by Vincenzo Campisi, the black and white visuals capture Quarry performing alone, interspersed with flashes of some of the songâs most potent and personal messages.
Creating affecting music with a romantic quality, and that revolves around love and loss, âPositioning The Sunâ has a knack for capturing the overwhelming weight of the worldâs complications. Recorded in Milan between 2020 and 2022, the record is a warm and expansive one: full of beauty and melody, and with a multi-coloured quality.
Quarry explains:
âI wanted to make an eclectic album. I started writing a sort of soundtrack to an imaginary movie. But then I realised that I was locked in my tiny home studio with this new pandemic bursting into planet earth, and I was writing songs about isolation, distance, separation. It was the soundtrack of that particular time. Pandemic permeated the album with a sense of loneliness and concern, and when it was almost finished the outbreak of war in Ukraine made the songs more relevant.âÂ
Quarryâs new album artwork depicts a stylised worn-out sun with markings over it. While Native Americans used this âDays and Nightsâ symbol to tell the time via the position of the sun, it would also provide Quarry with the inspiration to begin writing his latest album and inform its title. Although Quarryâs âPositioning The Sunâ doesnât signify the passage of time, it instead serves as a vessel for the artist to travel through space and time with non-linear limitations; its songs sometimes landing in dark places, sometimes in brighter ones.
QUARRY – âPOSITIONING THE SUNâ TRACKLIST
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Beyond Any Sense
This Is The Story
New City Comes Along
Kick The Void Outside
Dream Free Dreams
Breathe The Stars
Freedom
Merge
Radio Inner World
Higher Higher
Flash of Lightning
He adds: âThe positive thing is that I used a lot of words like âbreatheâ, âdreamsâ, âlightâ and âfreeâ, which means that itâs not a sad album. Thereâs hope and joy in it. I attempted to convey the abrupt and continuous transitions from black and white to colour using various ambiences, atmospheres and instrumentation â always feeling that the songs could be easily played on an acoustic guitar.â
QUARRY – NEW SINGLE –Â âTHIS IS THE STORYâ
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NEW ALBUM âPOSITIONING THE SUNâ
OUT 14 OCTOBER 2022, VIA LOWFIEYE RECORDS