Trellis by Hassan Iqbal
I had been painting for a couple of months before working on this album and as a result I didn't play guitar for that time but keyboard was more accessible.
Initially I had plans for the end of the year to finish two projects, "For a Home" and "Of the Sky 2" but I didn't think I was in the state of mind to complete them because they required a lot more time and emotional investment. Start of October I started writing for a new ep/album that didn't have any baggage with it and I could bring it to life easier, I came up with ideas for around 13 pieces until 18 October came, I abandoned that project and a new project took over.
This project became Trellis, there are still two pieces from the initial October ideas that found their way into Trellis in a different shape than originally written ("sunken" and "call")
The track "air 3" was written last year for a project that didn't pan out and it made sense for it be on this record, also because it felt like a continuation of "Air" and "Air 2" that are on my previous record "At the Eve", everything else for Trellis was written from Oct 18 till Dec 18.
It felt natural to not use my guitar at all for this project. All guitar playing on it is done by creative friends who inspired a significant part of the album. Use of words in pieces was also something I naturally didn't gravitate towards, except for a few tracks that are driven by them.
Tracklist
| 1. | sky | 4:02 |
| 2. | sunken | 1:41 |
| 3. | this feels near | 3:30 |
| 4. | fade 1 | 1:32 |
| 5. | elysian | 4:32 |
| 6. | fade 2 | 1:29 |
| 7. | rolling | 3:20 |
| 8. | open 1 | 1:26 |
| 9. | erode | 3:50 |
| 10. | call | 1:50 |
| 11. | deliverance | 5:52 |
| 12. | overwinter | 3:09 |
| 13. | air 3 | 1:10 |
| 14. | together, forever | 3:41 |
Credits
Hassan Iqbal: voice, keyboard, drum programming, production
Carl Mörner Ringström: guitar track 1
Bella Scotti: vibraphone, mbira track 3
Catriona Sturton: voice, harmonica track 7 banjo tracks 3, 7
Nick Larsen: guitar track 5
Craig Dunsmuir: fx guitar track 5
Matt Loewen: upright bass tracks 5, 6, 11
Matt Taylor: field recording track 6
Bob Bowden: fretless bass track 7
Kate Gabbitas: voice track 9 trumpet tracks 9, 10
Thomas Nordlund: guitar track 11
Ashleigh Still: voice tracks 11, 13
Jon Herchert: bass track 11
Silvia Bruccini: voice track 12
Gabriela Hoek: bird call track 14
lyrics:
this feels near - taken/inspired from J. Cohn's poems
rolling - written by Catriona Sturton/Hassan Iqbal
together, forever - taken/inspired from Elyssa Astegiano's poem
