There is a wonderfully poetic and very positive review of A Year At Usher’s Hill here. ‘… Notes that, as familiar as they become, can only make this a distinct and truly special disc.’
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Wire ‘Office Ambiance’

Shadows and Reflections (Cronica) features in the “Office Ambiance” listings in this month’s WIRE. It’s available here. Really excited about this. Also featured is a new release by Ryoko Akama, who I had the privilege of mentoring through her PhD. The “Office Ambiance” playlist can be found here.
Review in ‘Music Won’t Save You’
Here is another poetic Italian review of recent albums from Music Won’t Save You

Reviews in Rockerilla
Terri Hron article on our album ‘Lepidoptera’

An wonderful article by Terri Hron documenting the collaborative process behind the creation of our album Lepidoptera (emprientes DIGITALes, 2016) is available here. It is published by eContact, Canada. This is the first album Terri and I co-composed for recorders and electronics. (See http://www.birdonawire.ca for more about Terri’s work)
IOU Rear View

A really wonderful piece here on the British Council site about IOU’s Rear View for which Susie Green and I composed a 75-minute sound score.
Shadows and Reflections

Shadows and Reflections is now available from Cronica here. It comes as both a cassette (in a limited edition of 100) and as a hi-res (94/24) download. This was originally created to accompany an exhibition of paintings by Andy Fullalove first exhibited at Bradford Cathedral and the releaseis dedicated to him.
Review at ‘A Closer Listen’ of A year at ushers hill

Another lovely review of A year at usher’s hill by Richard Allen can be found here
Review of A year at usher’s hill

A review of A year at usher’s hill and Shadows and Reflections can be found on the ambientblog site here.
Piano Scores available

Three piano scores from “A year at ushers hill” are available on the album page here. You can download a pdf score for Shifting Ground, In Memoriam Jacques Hamel and Under a lunar sky.

