{"product_id":"tiarn-by-hana-stretton-lp","title":"tiarn by Hana Stretton (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003epreorder\u003c\/strong\u003e our pressing of the new \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hanastretton.com\/\"\u003eHana Stretton\u003c\/a\u003e album \"tiarn\", out Aug. 7th, vinyl shipping in  probably October.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the US pressing by us (P.W.E.\u0026amp;S.). Our version will have maybe some slightly different art, different mastering, maybe a special booklet... It's also being pressed by some other labels in other parts of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pwelverumandsun.bandcamp.com\/album\/tiarn\"\u003eGet it on Bandcamp here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mq4kjlUadFM\"\u003eWatch this \"Stove\" music video.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's some press release info:\u003cbr\u003eAustralian ambient-folk producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist \u003cb\u003eHana Stretton\u003c\/b\u003e announces her new album, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003etiarn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, out \u003cb\u003eAugust 7th\u003c\/b\u003e, and releases the lead singles “\u003cb\u003eStove\u003c\/b\u003e” alongside \u003cb\u003e“Salt”\u003c\/b\u003e In conjunction, she announces a \u003cb\u003eNorth American headline tour\u003c\/b\u003e. Hana Stretton creates distinct worlds in her music, shaped by intimate, detailed home production. Critics have drawn comparisons to Vashti Bunyan’s pastoral intimacy, Grouper’s meditative textures, and the nature-filled production of Mount Eerie, highlighting Stretton’s ability to craft music that is simultaneously fragile and immersive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2024, \u003cb\u003ePhil Elverum\u003c\/b\u003e reissued her debut album \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003evia his label, \u003cb\u003eP.W. Elverum \u0026amp; Sun,\u003c\/b\u003e calling it “a breathtaking internal world held in sound, crackling with life and free from intervention.” \u003ci\u003eStereogum\u003c\/i\u003e praised the album as a “collection of warm, tender lo-fi recordings that immediately ingratiate themselves, filling up the room like a fog.“\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFrom the fires and floods of the Australian bush on \u003ci\u003eSoon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003etiarn\u003c\/i\u003e now takes us to the shores of the Pacific Ocean where classical and electronic arrangements move with an ever-present longing for connection and nature. Stretton has weaved a new world with \u003ci\u003etiarn\u003c\/i\u003e, set on the brink of night, when the world is soft and suspended in blue. Living in isolation near the ocean, overlooking the winter migration of whales, Stretton would regularly swim during the brief 20-minute period known as the blue hour. Ideas would come to her in the icy salt water, and walking home in the dark, she would carry melodies back to record that night.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAt its heart, \u003ci\u003etiarn\u003c\/i\u003e reflects ecological grief and the search for connection in a changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAfter nearly four years of isolation, the songs on \u003ci\u003etiarn\u003c\/i\u003e were written as a way for Stretton to reconnect and participate with her surrounding community again. Since then, Stretton has joined a 60-person regional Australian choir,\u003cb\u003e Forest Creek Folk\u003c\/b\u003e, who have sung, danced and performed pieces from the album around Australia. One of today’s singles, “Stove,” was written for an opera singer and string quartet to build what became a kind of miniature electronic opera hidden inside the album. “Salt” grapples with the question of how to live meaningfully in a changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003etiarn\u003c\/i\u003e is also inspired by a piece of home camera footage Stretton found of her family in Japan where they lived in the ‘90s before she was born. It shows the distant mountains, and Stretton’s young family looking over the valley in the soft static of one summer evening. Decades later, using the untouched synth her parents had bought in Tokyo in 1991, Stretton began recording music directly to that footage, letting the images dictate the melody. Voices, insects, weather, movement, and the ambient sounds of the valley are woven throughout the record itself, blurring the line between documentation and composition. The result is an album that feels less created than uncovered — something remembered rather than made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eHana Stretton’s work continues to carve a singular path in contemporary music, balancing environmental awareness, experimental composition, and deeply personal storytelling. \u003ci\u003etiarn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e is an invitation into a world simultaneously intimate and vast — a meditation on memory, connection, and the quiet urgencies of the natural world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"P.W. Elverum \u0026 Sun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52427167170791,"sku":"ELV054","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4179\/3984\/files\/ELV054_HanaStretton_Tiarn.jpg?v=1785262234","url":"https:\/\/www.pwelverumandsun.com\/products\/tiarn-by-hana-stretton-lp","provider":"P.W. 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