Huam Salt House

• 1 Fire Light 03:19
• 2 All Shall Be Still 04:53
• 3 Mountain of Gold 04:57
• 4 William and Elsie 04:24
• 5 Hope Is the Thing with Feathers 01:12
• 6 If I Am Lucky 05:10
• 7 Lord Ullin's Daughter 04:01
• 8 The Disquiet 03:20
• 9 The Same Land 04:42
• 10 Union of Crows 03:43
• Total Runtime 39:41

Info for Huam

"Huam" (schottisch für den Ruf einer Eule) ist die dritte Kollektion von Songs von Salt House und die zweite Zusammenarbeit mit dem Produzenten Andy Bell.

Das Trio setzt mit diesem Album seine Vorliebe für Aufnahmen "vor Ort" fort, indem es sich ins ländliche Argyllshire begibt, um die Songs fertig zu schreiben und aufzunehmen, die zwischen ihren Wohnorten Inverness-Shire und Shetland entstanden sind.

Das Album enthält 6 neue, von der Band geschriebene Songs und neue Vertonungen von Gedichten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts von Robert Thomas, Nan Shepherd und Robert Williams Buchanan aus Schottland sowie der Amerikanerin Emily Dickinson. Mit diesem Album untermauern sie ihren Ruf als hervorragende Interpreten von Worten; neue Lieder, die klingen, als wären sie schon immer da gewesen, alte Balladen, die wieder zum Leben erweckt werden, Gedichte, die die Melodien erhalten, die sie schon lange verdient haben. Lieder über Orte, Politik und Landschaften.

Mit viel Liebe zum Detail, gemeinsamen Leidenschaften und handwerklichem Geschick hat die Gruppe ein Album geschaffen, das ihre Liebe zum Gesang zelebriert und eine Geschichte unserer Zeit erzählt. Sie setzen ihre Erkundung alter Texte fort, während ihre eigenen Welten gemeinsame Gefühle der Hoffnung und des Staunens in der aktuellen Welt, die wir teilen, widerspiegeln. (Ihre Musik ist zum Teil ein Beitrag zu dem Strom von Künstlern, die Werke schaffen, um einer turbulenten Welt etwas entgegenzusetzen, etwas Licht in der Dunkelheit).

Lauren MacColl, viola, fiddle, vocals, glockenspiel
Ewan MacPherson, vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, dulcimer
Jenny Sturgeon, vocals, harmonium, pump organ, guitars, piano, dulcimer

Jenny Sturgeon
is a singer-songwriter "who brings together the old and new with a rare skill" (R2 Magazine). Jenny's music is rich with imagery and her songs are bound together by common threads of folklore, nature and the connection people have with the wild.

Sturgeon’s songcraft is at the centre of her engaging and honest performance, with accompaniment on guitar, harmonium and dulcimer she has been described as “a wonderful singer who can change the atmosphere in the room with her affecting delivery” (Boo Hewerdine). Her album 'The Living Mountain' was nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year awards 2021 and in 2020 she won Best Acoustic at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards. In 2018 she was nominated as Composer Of The Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards.

Jenny is currently touring audio-visual project 'The Living Mountain' - a collection of songs and films inspired by Nan Shepherd's book of the same name. Supported by Creative Scotland and Help Musicians.

Musical collaborations include writing and performing in the critically acclaimed alt-folk band Salt House and in the bird and migration inspired project, Northern Flyway; a Creative Scotland and PRS Foundation funded audio-visual project that Jenny co-wrote with Inge Thomson - described as "like watching a David Attenborough documentary but with awesome music!”.

Jenny’s music has been played on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 3, Radio 6 Music, Radio 2, and Radio Nan Gaidheal - including being featured as artist of the week, live sessions for Travelling Folk and BBC Radio 3 and being on BBC Radio 4 Front Row. Jenny's release 'The Wren and The Salt Air' - a commission for The National Trust of Scotland - featured on national STV news. Her song ‘Charmer’ was featured at number 9 of The Herald’s best 100 songs of 2018.

Ewan MacPherson
lived in Edinburgh for 14 years and spent a lot of time playing music in one of Bert’s old haunts Sandy Bells pub. He also worked for Stoneyport Associates which booked Bert’s Scottish gigs and so was regularly in touch with Loren, Bert’s wife, organising publicity and promotional materials. Ewan plays in a band called Salt House, which is influenced by Bert’s music including Pentangle.

This album contains no booklet.