Hana Stretton – tiarn
Australian ambient-folk producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Hana Stretton announces her new album, tiarn, out August 7th, and releases the lead singles “Stove” alongside “Salt.”
In conjunction, she announces a North American headline tour. Hana Stretton creates distinct worlds in her music, shaped by intimate, detailed home production. Critics have drawn comparisons to Vashti Bunyan’s pastoral intimacy, Grouper’s meditative textures, and the nature-filled production of Mount Eerie, highlighting Stretton’s ability to craft music that is simultaneously fragile and immersive.
In 2024, Phil Elverum reissued her debut album, Soon, via his label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, calling it “a breathtaking internal world held in sound, crackling with life and free from intervention.” Stereogum praised the album as a “collection of warm, tender lo-fi recordings that immediately ingratiate themselves, filling up the room like a fog.“
From the fires and floods of the Australian bush on Soon, tiarn now takes us to the shores of the Pacific Ocean where classical and electronic arrangements move with an ever-present longing for connection and nature. Stretton has weaved a new world with tiarn, set on the brink of night, when the world is soft and suspended in blue. Living in isolation near the ocean, overlooking the winter migration of whales, Stretton would regularly swim during the brief 20-minute period known as the blue hour. Ideas would come to her in the icy salt water, and walking home in the dark, she would carry melodies back to record that night. At its heart, tiarn reflects ecological grief and the search for connection in a changing world.
After nearly four years of isolation, the songs on tiarn were written as a way for Stretton to reconnect and participate with her surrounding community again. Since then, Stretton has joined a 60-person regional Australian choir, Forest Creek Folk, who have sung, danced and performed pieces from the album around Australia. One of today’s singles, “Stove,” was written for an opera singer and string quartet to build what became a kind of miniature electronic opera hidden inside the album. “Salt” grapples with the question of how to live meaningfully in a changing world.
tiarn is also inspired by a piece of home camera footage Stretton found of her family in Japan where they lived in the ‘90s before she was born. It shows the distant mountains, and Stretton’s young family looking over the valley in the soft static of one summer evening. Decades later, using the untouched synth her parents had bought in Tokyo in 1991, Stretton began recording music directly to that footage, letting the images dictate the melody. Voices, insects, weather, movement, and the ambient sounds of the valley are woven throughout the record itself, blurring the line between documentation and composition. The result is an album that feels less created than uncovered — something remembered rather than made.
Hana Stretton’s work continues to carve a singular path in contemporary music, balancing environmental awareness, experimental composition, and deeply personal storytelling. tiarn is an invitation into a world simultaneously intimate and vast — a meditation on memory, connection, and the quiet urgencies of the natural world.
Stretton’s newly announced tour finds her making stops across major cities in North America, including Montreal, Chicago, Washington, DC, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and more.
Hana Stretton Tour Dates:
Sun. Sep.13 – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Folk House
Mon. Sep. 14 – London, UK @ Grand Junction
Sat. Sep. 19 – Chicago, IL @ Constellation
Wed. Sep. 23 – Montreal, QC @ Pop Montreal
Thu. Sep. 24 – Ottawa, ON @ FONO
Sun. Sep. 27 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
Mon. Sep. 28 – North Adams, MA @ TOURISTS
Tue. Sep. 29- Catskills, NY @ Avalon Lounge
Wed. Sep. 30 – State College, PA @ Manny’s
Thu. Oct. 1 – Frostburg, MD @ Clatter Cafe
Sat. Oct. 3 – Efland, NC @ FEAST Festival
Sun. Oct. 4 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
Tue. Oct. 6 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Perch
Wed. Oct. 7- Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records
Fri. Oct. 9 – Vancouver, BC @ St James Hall
Wed. Oct. 14 – Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
Thu. Oct. 15 – Portland, Or @ Maps Good Space
Fri. Oct. 16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Lab
Sat. Oct. 17 – Los Angeles, CA @ 2220 Arts + Archives
Sun. Oct. 18 – Ojai, CA @ The Listening Garden
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