New Music: Daylight Savings, by Samantha Whates

An apt title for a new release from Samantha Whates this Monday morning, as we are extremely pleased to share the video for Samantha’s single ‘Daylight Savings’. Observant readers of Elsewhere will know Samantha as we have been following her in the process of recording the album ‘Waiting Rooms’, which will be released next month.

All the tracks on ‘Waiting Rooms’ were written and recorded in a series of waiting rooms, some active and some abandoned, in railway and bus stations, hospitals, ferry ports and care homes. The album, which we are very much looking forward to, will address themes of loss and waiting, of transition and of time passing in transient spaces.

The song ‘Daylight Savings’ was recorded live in the golden hour of early autumn 2018 in the abandoned, Grade II Listed Old Waiting Room in Peckham Rye Station. The waiting room opened in 1865 but has been closed since 1961, and after some serious time and effort, Samantha was allowed in to record the song. It was worth it. In Samantha’s own words: “Daylight Savings captures that space and the light more than any other song on the album could’ve - that room was made for recording classical instrument and voice and I am honoured to have been able to make a recording in that room. I am not sure that will happen again.”

Samantha Whates – Waiting Rooms – Released 1 November on WONDERFUL SOUND

About the music video for Daylight Savings:
Arr. by Rhia Parker.
Directed by Samantha Whates
Compositor - Dylan White
Animation Supervisor - Simon Lambert
Special thanks to Sandringham Primary School for use of equipment :)
Featuring
Recorder - Rhia Parker & Danielle Jalowiecka
Cello - Tara Franks
Recording & Engineer - Douglas Whates