< making here I am briefly (2025) (album)
'here I am briefly' is a six-track collection of short works made across 2024-2025, thinking about trains and train travel. It is available on Bandcamp here.

it features electric guitar, voicenote recordings of train stations and train journeys, and voicenote recordings of electric guitar and loop pedal.

some tracks are improvisations, some are performances of scores.

the title, originally completely unconnected to train travel, comes from a 1938 collage by Bruno Munari ('Eccomi in breve'), a surreal self-portrait, and encapsulates the hours I routinely spend on trains: the self-portrait of a frequent traveller, never in one place for long enough, and yet for a short while present in a moment where all one can do is look out of the window and listen.

composed, performed, recorded, and edited by Zahrah Hutton

track 2 features the voices of James McIlwrath and Zahrah Hutton, singing at Birmingham New Street Station

track 3 features the voice of Geoffrey Sumner, from the film Absolute Block Signalling, accessed via the Internet Archive

album artwork by Zahrah Hutton






© Zahrah Hutton 2026