A Moraine (2007)

A Moraine can be thought of as a sister album to the first Landings album, published under the pseudonym Carousell in 2006. But whereas Landings was largely a composite of various site-specific improvisations, A Moraine follows a more orthodox compositional route. The focus is again the West Pennine Moors, and an area known as Anglezarke, but this time the landscape is envisaged shrouded in ice, some 15,000 years ago or more.

The three compositions share similar themes and are therefore named after three ancient spelling variants of the toponym, Anglezarke:

Andelevesarewe
Anlauesargh
Anlewesearche

The first of these dates back to 1202, followed closely by 1224 and 1246 for the others. Although, in the context of the landscape’s prehistory, these dates are relatively recent, the names themselves represent the oldest on record used to call upon the landscape.