Scaleby, XII (2020)

‘… he came to the remains of a human skeleton buried about eight or nine feet beneath the surface, and closely embedded in the lowest stratum of black peat. The skeleton was wrapped in what appears to have been the skin of a deer …’
(A Cumbrian Bog Body from Scaleby, RC Turner, CWAAS, 1988)

Latest in a suite of recordings for Scaleby Moss, and the bog body discovered there in 1834. The first Scaleby recordings appeared on And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies (2017), followed by the album Scaleby (2017).

‘… Scaleby poured its peat cargo inside otrepul slopes, as dead as vipers on sinew, extending the river of visible dark …’
(The Cult Revived, Richard Skelton)

Each of the recordings in the series subjects the same melodic material to a series of destructive and transformative processes.