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Baroque Era by Marina Moore

Multi-instrumentalist Marina Moore delivers her debut album of violin and electronics for Patchworks. Grounded equally in classical and 21st century laptop music, this quintessentially English-sounding album creates a feeling of bucolic uplift not unlike Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure or Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter.

Baroque Era is blissful but not without splashes of discordance. Like the photo which adorns the cover, the album feels like snapshots from a dream – the short tracks a series of idyllic, pastoral takes of a freer time. But what makes this record so special are the slivers of darkness at the edges: the adult world is always on the horizon.

Moore trained as a violinist and violist at the Royal College of Music in London and New England Conservatory in Boston before playing with the likes of Birdy, Bryan Ferry and Peter Gabriel. In 2022 she recorded solo strings for Brian Eno’s FOREVERANDNOMORE and solo viola for his 2022 installation in Trentino.

In fact, Dreams – one of the album’s many highlights – is not unlike parts of Eno’s Discreet Music. It takes a loop of sylvan violins and builds a structure of resounding beauty around them.

In line with its release date, Baroque Era evokes the Spring, taking in echoing electronics, found sounds and disjointed rhythms – as well as Marina’s ethereal voice on tracks like Run Hide Run. Iginu features dubbed-out vocals and electronic noise, whilst the title track foregrounds drums and sampled choirs, building to a reverberant coda. Eagle is a bass-driven groove accompanied by beauteous, sawing violins – and the album closes at its peak with Shore, featuring shimmering vibraphones, found vocals samples and buoyant choral sounds.

Tracklist
1.Late Last Night2:38
2.Cuckoo Clock1:56
3.Run Hide Run2:48
4.Iginu2:22
5.Dreams3:21
6.Ocean1:06
7.Over the Sun3:40
8.Baroque Era3:09
9.Eagle3:26
10.March1:44
11.Artoria2:03
12.Shore3:13
Credits
released April 25, 2025

Music written, played and mixed by Marina Moore. Mastered by Grace Griffin. Produced by Marina Moore.
Baroque Era, Run Hide Run, and Over the Sun drums played by John Clark.
Shore mixed and mastered by Grace Griffin.

Special thanks to Matty Wall, who played an integral part in the creation of this record.
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Photograph by Derry Moore

I trained as a violinist and violist at the Royal College of Music in London and New England Conservatory in Boston before touring with, Bryan Ferry and Peter Gabriel, and Birdy. In 2022 I recorded solo strings for Brian Eno’s FOREVERANDNOMORE and solo viola for his 2022 installation in Trentino.

My music is of violin, viola, electronics, found sounds, vocals.