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Kiran Leonard shares "Living With Your Ailments" film

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KIRAN LEONARD SHARES “LIVING WITH YOUR AILMENTS” FILM

VIDEO SHOT DURING THE POPE’S VISIT TO FÁTIMA, PORTUGAL THIS YEAR

NEW ALBUM DEREVAUN SERAUN RELEASED 29TH SEPTEMBER ON MOSHI MOSHI

LIVE IN SESSION WITH LAUREN LAVERNE ON BBC 6 MUSIC TOMORROW

TOUR WITH STRING TRIO STARTS TOMORROW @ ST. PANCRAS OLD CHURCH, LONDON

“A singular new talent is being forged”The Guardian

Leonard is an autodidact of amazing talent and energy”Pitchfork

 

On 13th May 2017, the Pope visited Portugal to mark the centenary of the Marian apparitions and Fátima and to participate in the canonisation of two of the shepherd children she appeared before, Francisco and Jacinta de Jesus Marto.

Kiran Leonard went, took many photographs, and made a music video  for “Living With Your Ailments”, exploring the topic in conjunction with the subject matter of the song at hand, which is about the philosophy essays of Albert Camus.

The video is about doubt and faith and their inbetweens. Its themes are expanded on in an accompanying essay called “Something Beyond Reason” which you can read on Scribd now.

Kiran Leonard recently announced details of a new album Derevaun Seraun, set to be released 29th September on Moshi Moshi.

Backed by a string trio, he will perform the singles “Living With Your Ailments” and “Could She Still Draw Back?” live in session with Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 6 Music tomorrow.

Tomorrow (20th September) also marks the start of a short tour – on which he’ll be accompanied by the string trio to perform Derevaun Seraun in full – with a special evening at London’s St. Pancras Old Church when there will be two performances (at 7PM and 9PM).

 

Read on for a full list of tourdates, and for Leonard’s statement on Derevaun Seraun.

“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.Kiran Leonard

 

Derevaun Seraun tracklisting

I. Could She Still Draw Back?
II. Living With your Ailments
III. A Particle of Flesh Refuses the Consummation of Death
IV. The Mute Wide-Open Eye of All Things
V. The Cure for Pneumothorax

Kiran Leonard (with string trio) tour
20 September – London, St. Pancras Old Church* 7PM PERFORMANCE TICKETS / 9PM PERFORMANCE TICKETS
21 September – Oxford, St Barnabas Church TICKETS
25 September – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club TICKETS
*x2 performances this evening only (at 7PM and 9PM)

Kiran Leonard is a 22 year old musician from Saddleworth, Greater Manchester. After a slew of Bandcamp releases as a teenager, he came to predominance with the release of debut record proper Bowler Hat Soup in 2013 when he was still just 17 years old. A double album, ambitious in scope, it boasted three BBC Radio 6 Music-playlisted singles, as did its follow-up Grapefruit in 2016.
Both albums were featured as an Album Of The Day on 6 Music. Leonard has performed live several times on both Lauren Laverne’s and Marc Riley’s 6 Music shows, as well appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme. His music has been compared to, among others, Dirty Projectors, Slint, Swans, Deerhoof, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Jim O’Rourke.

Derevaun Seraun is available to buy now from Moshi Moshi.

“Living With Your Ailments” https://soundcloud.com/moshimoshimusic/kiran-leonard-living-with-your-ailments/
“Could She Still Draw Back?” https://soundcloud.com/moshimoshimusic/kiran-leonard-could-she-still-draw-back/

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