Owen, its a great album, there’s some songs on there even better than the one I posted here

Lonely the sea bird lies at her rest
Blown like a dawn-blenched parcel of spray
Upon the wind, or follows her prey
Under a great waves hollowing crest.

Which brings to mind Richard Henry Dana’s description of albatrosses in the south Atlantic (quoted probably by D.H. Lawrence, else why would I remember it?).

If someone had said to me, ten years or so ago, that I would, within a few years, see the light and recognise that electronic music was worthy of embrace, I would, if in one of my grumpy, bear-with-a-sore-head moods, tell the bringer of such enlightenment where to shove his synthesizer. All that changed when the restored films of Mitchell and Kenyon were issued by the BFI. I was practically awestruck by the clarity and astonishing depth of the films, but there was another factor that gave them enormous impact: it was the electronic soundtrack that accompanied those moving images from one hundred years earlier. The music, composed and played by In the Nursery moved the viewing experience from astonishing to unforgettable.

The first clip here featuring North Atlantic Drift’s Albatross reminded me immediately of the soundtrack to the Mitchell and Kenyon films. The single photograph is wonderfully apt and helps this listener to get inside the text. The BSP clip is also very atmospheric.