The new FitkinWall album UIST follow threads of migration, loss and longing. I play electro harp, Gaelic wire strung harp, concert harp and loop station on the album and Graham is on a vast array of electronics. The wonderful Tim Oliver worked with Graham to produce the album. We perform all the music from Uist in our Harpland show. Mark … Read More
THE THREE HARPS OF CHRISTMAS
In December 2012, in 10 foot of Dolomite snow, Ruth and Graham began work on a new album. The music is a selection of their favourite Christmas carols, rearranged for Concert harp, Bray harp and Gaelic wire strung harp by Graham.
LOST – FITKINWALL
FitkinWall released their new album LOST in November 2014 www.fitkinwall.com . They toured UK, Brussels and Italy and performed on BBC Radio 3. Ruth performs on concert and wire stung harps and Graham on moog synthesizer, red box, fender rhodes and autoharp.
THE UNCOMMON HARP
Ruth performs works for solo lever harp by Howard Skempton, Gabriel Jackson, Peter Maxwell Davies, Laurence Crane, Michael Parsons, Graham Fitkin and Philip Glass. The CD comprises recently written music by composers working with tonality and modality today, and includes three of Ruth’s works.
FITKIN BAND
Ruth performs with FITKIN on bray harp and lever harp. In 2009 Graham Fitkin put together a stellar line-up of players to form a new nine-piece band. The music is fast, loud, with a hint of gypsy bawdiness and as The Guardian put it ‘a delight that defied all fashionable labels and simply conjured its own whirlygig of ideas with … Read More
STILL WARM
Composed by Graham Fitkin, Still Warm takes the intimate and beguiling sound of the harp far from of it’s angelic connotations. Ruth performs on lever harp, Gaelic wire strung harp and buzzing bray harp against an electronically generated canvas of scattered beats and pixellated timbres.
KAPLAN
Graham Fitkin was inspired by the Hitchcock movie North By Northwest to write the hour long work Kaplan in which the key character in the film doesn’t actually exist. The music takes the listener into a densely rhythmic and multi-layered sound world and is performed on keyboards by Ruth and Graham.
