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Session Report: Cellist Matthew Barley on recording Light Stories

2024-09-20T08:54:00

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Cellist Matthew Barley’s album Light Stories was inspired by a life-changing incident he experienced as a teenager. He tells Charlotte Gardner how he put together its deeply personal narrative and recorded it in his home studio

Human beings are wonderful, complicated, resilient creatures, and you never can know what lies beneath the surface. I’m reminded of this afresh upon arrival at cellist Matthew Barley’s home to discuss Light Stories, his new album of multitracked works for which he not only plays his cello, but also – and for the first time – composes, studio-engineers, produces and manages electronics…

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