"I wanted to create a piece along the route from
Lumb Hole to Blake Dean, two popular and beautiful spots in adjacent river
valleys. The route took me past a ruined farmhouse marked 'Coppy' on the map, a
collapsed shooting butt on Shackleton Knoll itself, what appeared to be an
overgrown Victorian landscaped waterfall valley, a section of woodland river
and finally to the stone supports that once held up the railway which moved the
stone for local reservoir construction.
I could not complete the recordings all at once so, over
a period of four evenings and one morning, I would start at Lumb Hole and
venture a little further to my recording location, before returning. On the
Thursday I walked the entire distance to Blake Dean and back, a round trip of a
coincidental 7.7km.
The sections of the piece reflect the atmosphere of the
locations. All the parts were recorded in the field using an iPad, a midi
keyboard, a blue tooth speaker and a portable multi-track recorder."
Art by Maxim Peter Griffin
releases July 13,
2018
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