Arta Jēkabsone & Erik Leuthäuser - Away With The Faeries (Dean Wilson) 2022

Erik Leuthäuser is a singer/songwriter/arranger based in Berlin and Arta Jēkabsone a Latvian born, New York based composer and curator who develops interdisciplinary projects. In 2018, the duo released their first studio album Yesterday Still Lies Between the Floorboards which utilised soundscapes through vocals, improvisation & electronics. “Music full of overwhelming beauty and artistic daring.” Rolf Thomas, Jazzthing Magazine In 2022 Erik Leuthäuser & Arta Jēkabsone have arrived on Irregular Patterns to release BEACHFINDS a collection of ten songs inspired by the poetry of Dean Wilson. Erik Leuthäuser discovered the first volume of Dean Wilson’s poems while visiting a bookshop in London and introduced Arta Jēkabsone to his work while they were recording in New York. Instantly they fell in love with the simple, funny, emotive words and decided to write a song using a poem as lyrics and adding their beautiful voices and sparse, clever Instrumentation. One s