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Hannah Peel’s Underland draws a glorious and vivid electronic map of the ground below, and what comes buried beneath that ground. Melodies that feel like they’ve been lifted directly from the soil merge with rhythm tracks that could be insects burrowing caves through the undergrowth, and gorgeous ambient echoes intertwined with spectral voices… these elements in Hannah’s hands are the true sound of the underground.
Hannah’s album is the soundtrack to the new Underland film directed by Rob Petit, a cinematic documentary that draws inspiration from Robert Macfarlane’s 2019 book of the same name.
Hannah Peel on Underland: “I had read Robert’s book back in 2019, and even included some words from it for my 2022 album ‘The Unfolding’. The chance to actually compose for the book's film in return though, beautiful synchronicity! Scoring for these astronauts of the underworld, those sacred ancient cave systems, the mysteries of the universe’s secrets, exploring what would they actually sound like? Those haunting descents that remind us of our planet’s past and future, asking us to look deep into our ancestors' stories and evaluate where we will go next, made it a profound film to work on. I used ancient Mayan Pod Trumpets and an iron age horn called a Carnyx mixed with baroque choir, string orchestra and synths to bring to life a score that had to combine mythology, technology and possibility.”
Tracklist
1. Into The Underland
2. Xibalba
3. Little Miss Why
4. Seeing In The Dark
5. All They Had Was Fire
6. Poverty Sinks Underground
7. Dark Matter Mass
8. The Waiting Wonder
9. Epochs And Aeons
10. The Crux
11. You Don’t See Sunlight
12. The Forbidden Tomb
13. The Earth Doesn’t Forget
14. The Uranium Lights Up
15. We Fall Together
16. Time Crumbled in Moments Like This
17. The Sacred Chamber
18. The Acent
19. The Surface