The Dengie Hundred With Gemma Blackshaw

The Profile

A collaborative music project pairing Owen Lawrence (Dengie Hundred) with art historian Gemma Blackshaw, producing ambient and field-recording-based works including Who Will You Love.

Gemma Blackshaw is described as an art historian. Owen Lawrence is referred to as the person behind the alias Dengie Hundred. They met in 2023 while Owen was recording Lammas Land. Who Will You Love features Gemma’s smartphone-recorded spoken words and Owen’s ambient/field-recording and minimal guitar work.

DeBaser's review rates Who Will You Love highly, describing it as a 2024 collaboration between Dengie Hundred (Owen Lawrence) and art historian Gemma Blackshaw. Gemma contributes spoken-word smartphone recordings while Owen supplies ambient, field recordings and minimal guitar. The album blends ambient, slowcore, folk and dub-inflected textures into a melancholic, dreamlike soundscape.