Elliot Galvin The Ruin

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• “This album is the most personal Ive made to date. Named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon poem from the 9th century AD about the former glory of an unnamed ruined city, The Ruin is inspired by the feeling of living in England (a country that feels like a living ruin), the bleak landscape of where I grew up (Medway towns), and a kind of self-portrait reflecting how we all live amongst the ruins of our past selves both collectively and individually. All the musical material on The Ruin is taken from iPhone recordings of improvisations that I played on my first-ever piano bought using money left by my late grandfather. The whole album is structured cyclically so that it gradually builds up and crumbles away, starting and finishing with solo piano. To this end, the very beginning of the album start