Two Songs, by Ian Humberstone

Two Songs

by Ian Humberstone

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	1.	The House on the Hill 02:26
	2.	A White Horse Gallops 03:04

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Two thematically linked songs recorded during the sessions for Paths to the Foss (sometime around 2015). In 2017 a very small number of these 7-inch records were pressed bearing the cat number ITLAN VIII. They were never publicly available.

The actual house on the hill was an abandoned cottage on a country lane just outside Exeter. It was filled with old newspapers and furniture - things the last inhabitants had left behind. Nature was slowly creeping her way around the broken floorboards and rotting timbers. I thought it was a beautiful place and often visited it.

It had its own music on soft summer days, when the joists creaked like the mast of an old sailboat. I wish I'd recorded that sound as it is lost to the world now. The house suffered a catastrophic fire around 2012 and today only the brickwork remains.

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released September 1, 2017

Ian Humberstone (keys, guitars and singing); Tom Western (drums); Malcolm Benzie (violin); Hannah Shepherd (cello).

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Ian Humberstone Edinburgh, UK

Musician and writer based in Edinburgh. Recording sound to magnetic tape since 2005.

ianhumberstone.co.uk

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