Grandmother Yew turns ambient drone into a scrapbook of ancient patience

Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society’s Grandmother Yew arrives on 27 June through Whitelabrecs, and the title immediately gives the release a living, rooted presence. A yew tree carries age, ritual, burial-ground mystery and slow endurance, which is exactly the kind of image ambient and drone music can handle when it has patience. The album runs 74 minutes and is written and produced by Laurel Morgan and Dominick Schofield, mastered by James Edward Armstrong, with photography by Bob Burnett and design by Harry Towell. The label withholds deeper concept notes for its scrapbook edition, which is a nice old-fashioned act of mystery in a content-flooded world. Tagged around ambient, drone, electroacoustic, electronic, experimental and modern classical, Grandmother Yew sounds like a long-form release where time stretches, bark listens and the machines are asked to grow slowly.

Source: https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/grandmother-yew