Artist: Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Album: 2 Years Stranger
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 42:58
Total Tracks: 10
Total Size: 387 MB
Tracklist:
02. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – Coma (03:55)
03. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – More (04:23)
04. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – In Out One (01:52)
05. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – Waiting (05:30)
06. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – Overflow (02:42)
07. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – In Out Two (01:58)
08. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – Dance (04:50)
09. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – Through (06:52)
10. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – One More (05:01)
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In 2017, much like so many of us in 2020, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres found herself in limbo. Her dad had fallen ill with ARDS, a severe type of respiratory failure, and sepsis. As a result, he was induced into a coma, to arrest the immediate failure of his organs. Alexandra found herself alone in her family home, her dad suspended in a state between life and death in France, surrounded by his possessions and a lot of time to ruminate of the fragility of life.
By way of processing the rollercoaster of fear, sadness, hope and alienation she was feeling, Alexandra started making recordings on her childhood piano, a musical diary of sorts. These recordings became not only a tool for healing but the beginnings of a bigger project. Despite not having the energy or brain space to do anything with them at the time, these piano recordings would eventually become her debut album, ‘2 Years Stranger’.
“When listening back to the recordings one day, I found that they told the story of those two years” says Alexandra. “Some I left really raw and some I reworked and recorded again. This then became the basis for making my debut album”.