Photo by Rachael Pony Cassells

As time sweeps us all into the inevitable void, then maybe at least the music of Mary Lattimore can memorialize those moments which we lived for ages to come once we are gone. The Los Angeles-based experimental composer’s music is rife with its own kind of mysticism to do so purely by way of what its sounds evokes. As her 2020 album, Silver Ladders, dipped its toes into existential oceans and the vast of the cosmos, “And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me” – the first single from her forthcoming effort, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada – provides a comforting sensation that in spite of the whelming nature of a never-ending timeline versus our own limited nature, those memories we create can be encapsulated in reveries like this. The listen hollows itself in tenderness where celestial strings, synths, and a voice from the possible other side of the light which she, alongside multi-instrumentalists Meg Baird and Walt McClements, breathe into being harness a warmth from within the conscious. Even if everything eventually changes and is gone, hopefully the moments Lattimore’s wingspan reaches out keeps them safe beneath them.

Directed by: Rachael Pony Cassells

Mary Lattimore’s Goodbye, Hotel Arkada will be released October 6th on Ghostly International.