Tiny Leaves - "Campanula Rotundifolia"

Persistent piano lines are chopped, edited, layered and fed into each other amongst the aleatoric pulse of electronic synths and punctuated by deeply resonant bass line. These elements make up the brilliantly hallucinatory track "Campanula Rotundifolia" by UK artist Tiny Leaves. These elements combine in the same kind of logical way that watching a field covered in wildflowers bob to their own rhythm makes total sense. Great work here. The press release states, “Inspired by David Tress, in his expressive paintings of the British landscape, Tiny Leaves often explores ways to interpret a landscape in music and how it feels to be there: “For a few years, I’ve been exploring what it means to have a sense of belonging to a place (Cynefin) and somehow interpret how a landscape could be represented in sound” Pike. His 2017 album Notes on Belonging, saw him present these explorations from a distance. However, Mynd sees Pike delve into new territories, experimenting with processes and challenges new to him, whilst fully immersing himself in the landscape of Long Mynd.  

Upon returning to his homeland of Shropshire and studying a postgraduate by research degree, which entailed creating a body of music set in the Shropshire ANOB, Pike was inspired by his time spent in the local hills and valleys: “I didn’t realise until I returned, how much I’d missed the sense of belonging to this landscape and its familiar ridge lines. I had an urge to explore this feeling in my music and to spend time in the lush green hills and valleys''.  

During his time here, Pike became acutely aware of the fragility of nature, which alongside the backdrop of climate change and the sounds of nature being amplified during the pandemic, motivated him to make ecology themed music. He started leaning in closer to the sounds of the nature that surrounded him, often taking walks, microphone in hand, carefully listening to the birdsong, wind, water and all the other sounds in nature.”