Hallig Habel, a farm in northern Germany on the North Sea, an area of low flatlands and mudflats. This photo was taken during an extreme high tide. From Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
I started recording this album four and a half years ago!
When I started I had just released my first album (a weird lo-fi indie folk experimental project), I had no money following a train trip round europe and I was in a bit of a directionless existential crisis flavoured period of my life.
With this album I wanted to create a vast sprawling indie folk/baroque pop concept album. Thematically I wanted to incorporate transcendentalism and nature writing with personal introspective songwriting.
I had a general sense this album should have it’s own internal recognisable world. As if the album didn’t belong in the real world but a slightly abstract mysterious one.
It’s been a pretty tumultuous time, personally and globally in the years that I’ve recorded this album. I think some of that has definitely seeped into the album’s makeup but I’ve tried not to be too on the nose with that stuff as I think that taints the concept a little.
Alongside making the album I worked endless shifts at a historic heritage park which ended up greatly influencing many songs on the album...I’ll talk more about this in another post
I’ll probably post more later but I’ll leave it there for now...