Australian ambient-folk artist Hana Stretton has announced a new album, tiarn. Arriving on August 7, it follows her debut album, Soon, which Phil Elverum reissued in 2024 via his label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. Today, she’s shared two sweepingly intimate tracks, ‘Stove’ and ‘Salt’. Take a listen below.
The songs on tiarn were written after nearly four years of isolation, as a means for Stretton to reconnect with her community. She’s since joined a 60-person regional Australian choir, Forest Creek Folk, who have sung, danced, and performed pieces from the album around Australia. One of the new singles, ‘Stove’, was written for an opera singer and string quartet, while ‘Salt’ “grapples with the question of how to live meaningfully in a changing world,” according to a press release.
The album was also inspired by a piece of home camera footage of Stretton’s family in Japan, where they lived before she was born. Using the untouched synth her parents had bought in Tokyo in 1991, Stretton began recording music directly to that footage.
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tiarn Tracklist:
1. Nojiri 1993
2. Salt
3. Seagull Theory II
4. Stay Involved
5. As It Was Before This
6. Forest To The Sea
7. Stove
8. Right Whale
9. Off Stokes
10. Night Swimming
11. From
