Recording between a Garden and the sea…
Mynydd Rhiw
The new album kind of started with an impromptu. Fingal’s cave in Scotland had the most stunning acoustic, sound sparking off the mostly hexagonal basalt lava columns, spinning in the most entrancing way. Deep in the cave in the almost black, on a narrow ledge above pulsing waves, a song of the ancient genealogy of Atlantic orcas and 7th century gaelic poetry that describes light and Hebridean sea more closely than anything else I’ve read…
Instrument amongst the mountains
Instrument amongst the mountains
Catching the sound in still sunlit air
More time spent trying to catch the sounds – vibrating in still, sunlit air – or swirling, with wind and the energy of rain
At Gavin Monaghan’s Magic Garden studio and Ken Powell’s SFG in the Berwyn mountains