Rhian Sheehan & Hammock - Borrowing the Past

Two of my all-time favourite artists/musicians have just released a track they collaborated on. The track is called Borrowing the Past and was originally released on Rhian Sheehan's EP Seven Tales of the North Wind, a great album in itself. Rhian Sheehan is a New Zealand composer and musician, who has released a number of excellent albums ranging from chilled out electronic music to experimental ambience to accompany a book of photos of New Zealand landscapes taken by his father. He asked the band Hammock to remix the track and add their own distinctive touch to it, which they did to great effect. Hammock hail from Tennessee here in the USA and have been probably my favourite band for a couple of years now. They've released about ten EPs and albums over the last eight years (my favourite being Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts) and produce dreamy down-tempo rock soundscapes. I've posted one of their videos on my blog before, which you can watch here.

The end result of the collaboration is 6 minutes and 22 seconds of pure bliss. The track inspired me so much I made a quick video to accompany it using footage I shot of a sunset from the top of the Mason Bay sand dunes on a trip I had to Stewart Island a couple of years ago.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!