Sophie Hutchings
Sophie Hutchings spent a good deal of her childhood outdoors, by the ocean. “I find the water has an almost medicinal effect,” says Hutchings, who still swims and surfs with enthusiastic regularity. “There’s a peace that comes over you when you’re in the ocean or gazing at its horizon.” The elemental, almost otherworldly effect of that natural landscape on Hutchings’ psyche has proved a formative and lasting influence on her style as a pianist and composer.
A decade on from her debut, with a growing, global fan base and new continents beckoning, Hutchings is no longer the introverted pianist of her teenhood. “I pour so much emotional energy into my music; I think that’s why I was so desperately shy about performing it when I was a teen. But I have confidence in my vision now – partly through experience, and partly through the relationship I have with my audience. They’ve taught me to trust and believe in what I’m doing.”
Sophie Hutchings
I n t o 🔆 T h e 🔆 W i l d is out now premiering on Wonderland!
Where the deep reds of the earth meet the sparkling blue seas ... Thank you to Wonderland and to Jasmin Tarasin and her team in the making of this. It features the hauntingly beautiful voices of our First Nations Rrawun Maymuru and Helena Smith and dancer Tara Gower who has spent most of her life with Bangarra Dance Theatre. Into The Wild also features the beautiful sounds of Bree van Reyk on percussion and co-produced with my good friend Nick Wales.
Filmed with Permission and Respect on Yawuru Country #YawuruCountry
Watch the video 🎥 www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2023/10/19/sophie-hutch…
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Sophie Hutchings
Out today is a mini doco sneaky peek into some behind the scenes footage of making A World Outside. A road trip into one of the most remote outback regions of Australia. It's these amazing diverse landscapes absorbing you being present that I have to thank for its inspiration. View the journey, the process behind the scenes on YouTube 🎥 https://youtu.be/Zl1czpjKjE8?si=pPaMp...
#LarrakiaCountry lands of #Jawoyn and #Arrernte
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Sophie Hutchings
Covering some 4500 kms of contrasting landscapes, through no-man’s-land ... come with me and experience the world I live in from the wild ghostly emptiness to its mystical other-worldliness inspiring A World Outside. Now available to order on CD and LP 🎧 SophieHutchings.lnk.to/AWorldOutsideID
https://youtu.be/kyg16huCPxk
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I'm really pleased to share with you that my new album A World Outside will be out 27th October and the first single, A Dead Sea's Ripples is out today! 🎧 SophieHutchings.lnk.to/AWorldOutsideID
A Dead Sea's Ripples is about feeling a part of history reimagined. It is also the name of a place I stumbled upon whilst setting out on a pretty mammoth canyon walk. Rising at 4.30 in the morning to climb a steep thousand steps just to get to the base of the canyon rim by sunrise, there I was met with an endless vista of colourful hues watching the shapes and shadows move across the rocky landscape as the sun came to life. Walking along the path, there was this huge rocky corridor that passes through weathered sandstone domes and the entire ground I was walking on was covered in these crazy ripple marks called a 'A Dead Sea's Ripples'. The name is due to the years of weather patterns and lakes from many many years before forming and causing these ripple effects on the sandstone floor.
You're always met with a serene silence in these vast wilderness-like places, hence that feeling of stepping into ancientness. You know that you're standing on land that has been here long long before you ever existed and will continue that way long long after you and as you look out at the amazing vastness below and in front, you realise you're just a whisper in the grand scheme of things ...
https://youtu.be/kyg16huCPxk
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Sophie Hutchings
Sophie talks about her studio, her own creative bubble and the Yamaha piano that she uses on many tracks including her piano rework for@olafurarnalds - Stream 'Still / Sound - piano reworks': OlafurArnalds.lnk.to/SophieHutchingsID
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