Kiran Leonard Announces New Album 'Derevaun Seraun', Shares Lead Single Living With Your Ailments
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Ida Olsson
Kiran Leonard will release a new album this autumn.
'Derevaun Seraun' is due to arrive on September 15 through Moshi Moshi and follow up 2016's 'Grapefruit'. About it, he said:
“DEREVAUN SERAUN” is a piece I wrote a couple years back in five movements for voice, piano and string trio. Each movement is written about a different piece of literature, exploring the value I see in each work and the impression it has made on me, and there is nothing more to it than that. The pleasure of books – of good verse and stories and ideas – is a very simple thing, and I felt that some lofty unifying theme for the entire piece would be a betrayal of that belief. I think that when a work resonates with you it is an instinctive response to something. You can be taught to understand a challenging book, but not to feel affection for it; I think a lot of conversation around art, especially around literature, sometimes forgets this. In my experience, the art I like the most, irrespective of its 'difficulty', is the art I can advocate most directly and plainly, and about which I can say: “I read this piece and now I do not read or think in the same way that I did before”, or: “This is a story that I could not explain to someone; I do not understand it word-for-word, yet I feel like innately I understand the whole, and that the whole spoke to me”. This is a piece about five books that I like and why I like them."
Check out the record's lead single, Living With Your Ailments, below.
Leonard, accompanied by a string trio, will follow up the record's release with a UK tour, calling in Wolverhampton, London, where he'll play two shows, at 7pm and 9pm, Oxford, Manchester and Leeds. Tickets go on sale at 9am on June 2.
Kiran Leonard Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue September 19 2017 - WOLVERHAMPTON Newhampton Arts Centre
Wed September 20 2017 - LONDON St Pancras Old Church
Thu September 21 2017 - OXFORD St Barnabas Church
Sat September 23 2017 - MANCHESTER Band on the Wall
Mon September 25 2017 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
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