Thomas William Hill 'Grains of Space'

Design for the latest release on Village Green Recordings, Thomas William Hill is a recording artist and soundtrack composer based in Nottingham. 'Grains of Space' started life as a series of minimal loops, recorded using a viola da gamba – a stringed instrument most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras – and a loop pedal. Using those recordings as the foundation, Thomas began incorporating a wide variety of other instruments into his palette  including bowed metallophones, gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, African kalimbas and metal tongue drums.

Cover: detail from Premonition 1 (2016) by Samantha Keely Smith.