Erland Cooper Shares Stonehenge Video

Erland Cooper has shared a new video shot at Stonehenge.

The composer’s new album has a remarkable back story, with ‘Carve The Runes Then Be Content With Silence’ having been recorded some three years ago – before being buried at a mystery location beneath Orcadian sands.

Uncovered after time had passed, the impact of erosion has given the tapes a unique quality – so he’s releasing them, as nature intended.

Out on September 20th, this new clip presents a movement from the album, recorded live at Stonehenge.

A recent scientific advance holds that the site’s famous altar stone is made from Old Red Sandstone – specific to the Far North and North East of Scotland. Could Orkney hold the key?

This new video finds Erland Cooper working with Freya Goldmark on violin and Sergio Serra Lopez on cello, while Simon Lane directs.

Erland Cooper comments…

I’ve recorded inside Neolithic cairns in Orkney but to stand, at dusk, inside the ancient stone circle while music resonated around like a murmuration of sound, was a precious experience that shall live long in my memory. I read recently that archaeologists have just discovered the Altar stone may have come from Scottish highlands, so to imagine these musical notes celebrating a similar journey in melody, poetry and landscape, feels ever more fitting.

Even the crows seemed to gather to listen, giving offerings of moss and sticks to Freya and Sergio who performed as if it was a ceremony in itself. What a wonderful celebration of time and place and perhaps the largest known world stage I shall perform on, certainly the oldest.

Tune in now.