Blackwaterside
7’’ single, booklet & download
Published by Random Spectacular, 2018
Purchase here via Bandcamp

In August 2016 Ultramarine created a photo film and soundtrack entitled Blackwaterside featuring Ian Cooper’s photographs of a particular stretch of the Blackwater estuary in Essex. The film was screened on rotation at the Caught By The River Thames festival at Fulham Palace in London.

As a continuation of the project, Ultramarine produced this audio/print package for Simon Lewin’s publishing imprint Random Spectacular, featuring two new pieces of music inspired by their time working close to the estuary.

Glasgow-based printmaker/sculptor Bronwen Sleigh visited this remote corner of Essex to sketch and draw, using these visual references to create a lithograph, printed in three colours, which features on the cover of the book accompanying the 7” single.

The book features a series of Ian Cooper’s original photographs set alongside poetry by the writer Philip Terry, inspired by the Essex coast, taken from his book Quennets [Carcanet Press, 2016].

Photography by Ian Cooper, Survey East.
Illustration by Bronwen Sleigh.


Blackwaterside photo film (2016)