Mary Lattimore

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Mary Lattimore is an experimental harpist and composer living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects, creating a sound world that is distinctly her own.

Through her use of harp, effects, synthesizers and voice, Lattimore’s live sets conjure up beautifully abstracted sonic forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions. “I love playing for people who have never seen a harp, who think it’s a museum piece. I want people to feel like they can approach it.” In full-stride, Lattimore almost manipulates time and space.

Lattimore’s early works were issued by the esteemed outposts of Desire Path and Thrill Jockey Recordings and in 2014, she found a long-term home at the Ghostly International label. Her 2023 release Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, glistens as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalogue.

Documented and edited over the course of two years, the record is both rooted in improvisation and fully open to the input of others. Within Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, Lattimore communes with friends, contemporaries, and long-time influences; a cast that includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), and Roy Montgomery.

Lattimore’s perfectly realised harp parts have led to her being a highly in-demand collaborator; recording and performing with revered artists such as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, and Steve Gunn.

Taking place at The Duncairn, this is sure to be a magical evening that will linger long after the final note.

“Lattimore has helped to modernize the instrument for contemporary tastes, bathing her spectacular grand harp in an electronic glow through effects pedals and synthesizers” Pitchfork

“Not just a musician, but rather a bright innovator of her time” The Line Of Best Fit