Ooh, a new Skelton! I loved 2010’s Landings and 2012’s Limnology but none of his more recent works quite made it onto my radar (I think they were mostly pretty low key?). Well, this one emphatically did, and it is cracking. It was recorded, as you might have guessed, in the Scottish Borders, and is as evocative of time and place as we’ve come to expect. In a new development (or new to me, at least), those droning strings are complemented by some delicate piano on a few of the tracks here, played in a style that somewhat reminds me of Deaf Center’s Otto A Totland. Oh, but check out the three repeating melodic fragments in Roan. Or the gently evolving strings of Kershope, which seem to conjure a mournful longing and a gentle hope in equal measure. Or any of the other tracks, to be honest. Simply gorgeous.
I bought this from the label.
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