Behind The Process

A little context for The Golden Thread EP. Every song was recorded to quarter-inch tape in a place in the south of France that is incredibly dear to us. Each piece was conjured through the inspiration and accompaniment of the surrounding landscapes.

“Lakeside Song” was written beside a secret lake, immersed in silver birch and poplar trees. “Elysian Fields” took shape in a wildflower meadow awash with cowslip, oxeye daisies, and untamed orchards in summer, and tall flaxen grasses in autumn. “Moving On” was written beside a roaring wood-burner in the living room of an old mill as the stars glistened in a clear, sharp sky while “The Weight of a Shadow” was improvised as rolling hills of scrub oak burned gold, the sun setting below the valley.

Recording to tape is important to us, as one exists entirely within the emotion of the song itself. The construction and execution are answerable to feeling — to the shifts of the heart, to unseen districts of land traversed and realised through the very act of creation.

In the words of T.S Eliot “music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music whilst the music lasts”