for your consideration
HAND WRINGING/IN THE WINGS
TROTTER out now on MISRA RECORDS
“Delicate and defiant... the kind of husky ethereality that can stop you in your tracks.”
CONTACT
Brittain: brittain.ashford@gmail.com, 347.722.1478
Praise for TROTTER + Handwringing/In the Wings
"Profoundly moving…”
- Last Day Deaf
"Beautifully orchestrated and utterly exposed, it’s a raw reckoning of visceral emotion – a soft, yet incredibly hard-hitting eruption from the artist’s innermost sanctum."
- Atwood Magazine
"… a mystical middle ground between Americana, jazz, and the slightest flavours of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. Profoundly moving but never maudlin as it examines choices made and opportunities lost."
- AnalogueTrash
“beguilingly rich”
- Various Small Flames
“captivating”
- Obscure Sound
“hauntingly beautiful”
- UpToHear
ABOUT the SONG/VIDEO
In the year proceeding the loss of her father, Ashford spent a year on Broadway it the critically acclaimed musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. The song explores the quiet moment following the closing of the production: regret, infidelity and spiritual ambivalence.
The video includes a gentle nod to Godard’s iconic Madison dance scene from Bande à part.
PRODUCTION & CREATIVE TEAM
Director & Producer: Kelly Mena
Cinematographer: Mark Raker
Assistant Director: Christian Ritter
Camera Operator: Ketak Dhiman
Color & Editing: Mark Raker
Hair & Makeup: Merideth Ivy & Jacqueline Schneider
Choreographed by Reed Laplau & Justice Moore
Featuring: Reed Laplau & Justice Moore, Alec Speigleman with Ellen Winter, Al Piper, Samee Junio, Amber Treadway, Nat Towsen
The album cover: Ashford’s parents in 1975
Brittain in her Brooklyn apartment.
ABOUT BRITTAIN
Brittain Ashford lives in Brooklyn and grew up in Seattle. She recorded this album during the pandemic in a remote cabin with two collaborators from Portland.
Ashford has spent much of her career recording and touring in support of her original music. She’s released two albums under the moniker Prairie Empire, a solo album of show tunes “run through a David Lynch filter” called Drama Club and numerous singles.
Her music has been featured on MTV’s Catfished and HBO’s Search Party.
FOR FANS OF
Big Thief, Wye Oak, The National, Sharon Van Etten, War on Drugs, Angel Olsen.