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A World Outside

Twice Australian-Prize nominated composer-pianist. Dives into the heart and soul of the Australian land in her breakthrough new album.

A World Outside is a breakthrough album for composer-pianist Sophie Hutchings, seeing her expand into cinematic soundscapes with strings, electronics, and vocals alongside her signature intimate solo piano sound. Sophie ventures to new horizons collaborating with indigenous singers, including the highly-respected Yolngu Songman Rrawun Maymuru from Yirrkala (a remote community in Australia's Northern Territory).

An avid surfer and deep lover of the outdoors Sophie draws inspiration from the land for her new album.  
Says Sophie “This road trip was really about delving into the heart and soul of the land. Finding inspiration from its core. From the wild ghostly emptiness to its mystical other worldliness.  

It’s as though the band speaks. Whispers echoing around you as you look out beyond what seems to be an endless rugged landscape.. 

Contemplating textures of these rugged remote landscapes and interpreting that experience through music, from daydreaming through sunrises to hearing melodies in the wind…” 

“her rippling piano has an intimate, contemplative quality…a genuine sense of beauty” -The Guardian.

Sophie Hutchings:

Love & Keep

"Sometimes melancholic, often with an exhilarating beauty." - The Guardian

Following the release of the singles Elysian Days and Not Alone from Australian composer Sophie Hutchings, today she presents her Love & Keep EP, that floats in calm repose as her unique piano style dances over a melody of peaceful quietude.

As an insomniac, Sophie has established musical creativity into her evening routine to aid her sleep. Love & Keep embraces Sophie's love for nature, with an elegant nod to world sleep day. The EP draws from nature's diversity to bring true an all-encompassing tranquillity into a potentially uncertain space.  

"Love & Keep is a bit of nostalgic contemplation on appreciating the simple things that we perhaps took for granted and now value as extremely precious. Instead of holding onto and valuing something from before, it's about building on that, rather than allowing the world of technology to fill in the social fabric and to consider the longevity and significance of friendships in time of uncertainty and struggle. I guess it's also just allowing time to ponder, and breathe, to free us of extra anxiety to what has already been brought upon us and to not feel alone in that." - Sophie Hutchings