Longtime friends and collaborators Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, two of ambient and experimental music’s most revered voices, unite their singular talents on an ethereal new single, “Perpetual Adoration.”
The track gracefully synthesizes their distinctive crafts within the acoustically rich walls of the Philharmonie de Paris. For this special collaboration, the duo was granted access to the extraordinary instrument collection of the Musée de la Musique in Paris. Lattimore selected four harps, each representing a different era in the evolution of the instrument, spanning from 1728 to 1970. Barwick, meanwhile, explored a trove of iconic analog synthesizers that have shaped generations of exploratory music, including the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5.
“We were so lucky to have access to this experience. There was a lot of reverence, working with people with such warmth and enthusiasm, bringing these instruments into a modern context, literally taken off the shelves of the museum,” says Lattimore. “We wanted to honor the past while making music that we feel is a true expression of ourselves.” Barwick adds.
This marks InFiné’s second collaboration with the Musée de la Musique, continuing a shared mission to bridge historical instrumentation with contemporary innovation, inviting artists to breathe new life into rare and storied instruments.
The single channels a wellspring of emotion inspired by a shared experience in Paris, where the duo stumbled upon the Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre on a rainy evening. Outside, a sign read “ADORATION PERPÉTUELLE.” Inside, they found a transcendent scene where a nun singing above organ drones during Sunday Mass.
That haunting, sacred, and suspended moment in time found its way into the studio. The result is “Perpetual Adoration”: a moving synthesis of Barwick’s celestial vocal textures and Lattimore’s luminous harp work, reverberating with the awe and stillness of that very night.