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I’ve been writing on the Scottish coast where I have a home: it’s very remote and perfectly suited to my disposition and to my music in the opinion of a friend – “imbued with melancholy and serenity”.

Now we seem to be freeing ourselves from the claws of pandemic, I am also prepping for a return to Sacred Spaces, my ongoing project to write and perform in iconic environments, whether natural or manmade.

I’m taking it to the other side of the world this time: to Australia, where I have family, and no shortage of inspiration.  My Wall of Waves studio has also been dusted down and re-quipped to the point where I can write, perform and record on the move. Thank you, brother technology.

Back in the UK, my label partner Singsong Music has released my back catalogue including a rather touching ‘sampler’ of my work called ‘The Lowered Veil’. I like the title’s inverted sentiment: usually the veil is lifted to reveal, but with me? Oh no …

I love how creatively diverse in output it has measured my being over the years. I do occasionally get the brickbats of ‘your music all sounds the same’.

The album also serves to remind me if nobody else how much I am touched by the sea.

Wherever it lands, I am compelled to go – and now to the shores of the New World.