The London Sound Survey

Tip! The new record by The London Sound Survey, From Dusk Till Dawn, is a dramatic journey, sonically celebrating the cyclical continuity of materiality’s impermanence. From the start, the listener is carried away, entranced and ferried on sound waves along the coastal habitats of Lakenheath Fen, captured as perpetually playing a graceful dance of life and death. Released posthumously on Persistence of Sound, this is possibly the last album by Ian Rawes, the founder, artist and archivist of The …

Field recordings tracing the river from Tower Bridge out to the estuary marshes, where industry and birdsong compete for the same air. Ian Rawes has been documenting London's disappearing soundworld since 2008.