R. Elizabeth

R. Elizabeth

Every And All We Voyage On

Night School

R. Elizabeth is the recording name of London-based artist and academic Rachael Finney. Every And All We Voyage On is her solo recording project’s second full length and is a focused distillation of her practice in sound art and her knack for pop minimalism. It follows a long sold out release on Where To Now? Records and a prolonged period in which she concentrated on artist residencies exploring her interest in recorded sound and voice. Immediate and natural, Every And All We Voyage On manages to sound joyful while tackling complex themes, handling everything with an improvisatory touch. The songs are full of air and light; infectious, melodic and off-the-cuff. Recorded using a single '80s Casio keyboard, reel-to-reel tape manipulation, piano and vocal, Finney’s practice with R. Elizabeth belies a studious attention to detail. Her academic work is often focused on analyzing sounds—particularly voice and language—divorced from meaning.She challenges the listener with overtly emotional tropes, constantly playing with sound and song: a wonderland of perceived emotion, the listener’s perception of what they’re hearing constantly in flux, deceptively simple and deserving of repetitive listening