Landscapes, suburbs, city, territories: the music that Tomorrow’s Child is creating for his debut album Beach Ghosts contains in itself a kind of collective memory of haunted and inhabited places in a distant time. An imaginary that gives a thread to a narrative of its own, leaving us in suspense for what will come next.
Words by Marco Guerra
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The artist is based in Cornwall, UK and he grew up in High Wycombe, known as a large market town which is about 45 minutes away from London. “Ruination” is the second single from the forthcoming album and it reflects the journey of Cornish mines from once thriving places of industry to ghostly monuments to the past haunting the landscape. In 1919, 31 men died in a terrible mining disaster at Levant in Pendeen, Cornwall. This happened when the man engine, an early type of lift for taking miners up and down the mines, suddenly broke. So, the official video of “Ruination” contains footage of the local where the disaster happened and it was captured in October 2019 on its 100th anniversary.
The music is glacial, sorrowful, complex and astonishingly beautiful and unexpected. It goes from ambient to breakbeat, taking us to a wide scope of electronic music influences, with a unique personal touch. It comes to my mind a mashup of “Amon Tobin vs Aphex Twin” with an apocalyptical flavor. The album will be out later this year and, according to the press release, it will explore grief, memory and environment through a range of electronic styles. Conceptually, the work that Tomorrow’s Child presents on “Ruination” is highly consistent and there is a sense of futurism behind it, like there is something very special happening in front of you. Can’t wait for the album!
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