Back in 2019, Haiku Salut were invited by Sam Groves of Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival to compose a new score for People on Sunday, the quietly radical 1930 German silent film, in collaboration with contemporary jazz pianist Meg Morley. It was an unexpected proposition: working with a musician they hadn’t met, on a form they hadn’t previously explored. But what followed was a slow-burning, deeply intuitive partnership, conducted initially long-distance and shaped by trust, shared curiosity and an open-minded creative approach. Morley’s improvisational language proved a natural counterpart to the film’s documentary-like intimacy, its non-professional cast lending the work a fragile immediacy, shadowed by the knowledge of the historical moment from which it emerged.
The LP is released on red vinyl, in full colour reverse board sleeve, designed by the multi-award winning Non Format.
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