Produced by Salt House and Mattie Foulds;
Recorded by Mattie Foulds at Mobile With a Home in summer 2013;
Mastered by Jon Astley at Close to the Edge Mastering;
Design by Somhairle MacDonald

Musicians

Siobhan Miller: vocals, harmonium;
Ewan MacPherson: guitar, vocals, banjo, jew’s harp;
Lauren MacColl: viola, fiddle, vocals;
Euan Burton: double bass, Rhodes piano, vocals

with
Mattie Foulds: percussion;
Gillie Mackenzie, Rachel Newton, Alistair Ogilvy, Bella Hardy: vocals [10]

Tracks

1. Strong Dark Souls (3.52)
2. Little Birdie (Roud 5742) / Short Time (4.25)
3. She’s Like the Swallow (Roud 2306) (4.00)
4. Freshwater Salt (3.38)
5. Setting Sun (3.08)
6. Katie Cruel (Roud 1645; G/D 4:725) / Soft As Snow on Shore Street (4.30)
7. Open Water (4.25)
8. The Seer and the Lord (4.22)
9. Morning Train (4.17)
10. She Walks in Beauty (8.18)

Tracks 1, 2b, 4, 6b, 8 Ewan MacPherson;
Tracks 2a, 3, 6a trad. arr. Salt House;
Track 5 Euan Burton;
Track 7 words Euan Burton, Jenn Butterworth, music Euan Burton;
Track 9 David Francey;
Track 10 from Lord Byron’s 1814 poem, mixed with a few words of prison poetry by James Alpine McPherson (1842-1895), finished off with three verses by Ewan MacPherson

Produced, recorded and mixed by Andy Bell;
Recorded in the restored Telford Church, Berneray, Outer Hebrides, in July 2017;
Mastered by Iain Hutchison at GloWorm Recording;
Original painting by Ellis O’Connor;
Photos by Salt House;
Design by Ewan MacPherson at Quiet Design

Musicians

Lauren MacColl: viola, fiddle, backing vocals, shruti box;
Ewan MacPherson: 6 & 12 string guitars, vocals, mandolin, bowed mandola, jew’s harp, kalimba;
Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, harmonium, guitar

Tracks

1. Old Shoes (3.10)
2. Turn Ye to Me (2.54)
3. Lay Your Dark Low (4.18)
4. The Sisters’ Revenge (7.15)
5. Charmer (5.09)
6. Staring at Stars (4.07)
7. The Road Not Taken (4.04)
8. I Sowed Some Seeds (Roud 914) (4.19)
9. Slow Fields of Home (4.01)
10. Undersong (4.46)

Tracks 1, 5 Jenny Sturgeon;
Track 2 words John Wilson, music Jenny Sturgeon;
Tracks 3, 6, 9 Ewan MacPherson;
Track 4 words trad., music Ewan MacPherson;
Track 7 words Robert Frost, from Mountain Interval (1916), music Lauen MacColl;
Track 8 words trad., verse 2 and music Ewan MacPherson;
Track 10 words Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson, music Lauren MacColl, Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson

Videos

Produced, recorded and mixed by Andy Bell;
Mastered by Dean Honer, Digital Sonic;
Cover art by Jenny Sturgeon

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals;
Ewan MacPherson: guitar, vocals;
Lauren MacColl: viola

Tracks

1. Twine Weel the Plaiden (Roud 8522) (3.03)

Track 1 words trad., music Ewan MacPherson arr. Salt House

Produced by Andy Bell;
Recorded and mixed by Andy Bell at Lerigoligan Bothy, Ardfern, Argyll and Hudson Studios;
Photography by Anne Campbell;
Design by Robin Beatty

Folk Radio UK review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Lauren MacColl: viola, fiddle, vocals, glockenspiel;
Ewan MacPherson: acoustic and electric guitars, dulcimer;
Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, harmonium, pump organ, guitars, piano, dulcimer

Tracks

1. Fire Light (3.19)
2. All Shall Be Still (4.53)
3. Mountain of Gold (4.57)
4. William and Elsie (4.34)
5. Hope Is the Thing With Feathers (1.12)
6. If I Am Lucky (5.10)
7. Lord Ullin’s Daughter (Roud 3138) (4.01)
8. The Disquiet (3.20)
9. The Same Land (4.42)
10. Union of Crows (3.43)

Track 1 words adapted by Jenny Sturgeon from the poem ‘Fires’ by Nan Shepherd (1893-1981), music Jenny Sturgeon, arr. Salt House;
Tracks 2, 10 Ewan MacPherson, arr. Salt House;
Track 3 Salt House;
Track 4 words adapted from the Danish Ballad ‘Aage and Elsie’ by Salt House, music Salt House;
Track 5 words Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), music Salt House;
Track 6 words Ewan MacPherson, music Salt House;
Track 7 words Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), from Louey Chisholm, The Golden Staircase: Poems and Verses for Children (1907), p. 174; music Salt House;
Track 8 words Jenny Sturgeon, music Salt House;
Track 9 Jenny Sturgeon, arr. Salt House

Videos

Salt House’s Mountain of Gold (official video):

Salt House at the Hudson Records Listening Club on 5 April 2020:

Recorded at home;
Mixed by Andy Bell;
Mastered by Dean Honer;
Cover photo by Archie MacFarlane;
Design by Robin Beatty

Musicians

Ewan MacPherson: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo;
Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, guitar, keys, harmonium;
Lauren MacColl: fiddle, viola, glockenspiel, vocals

with guests
Maija Kauhanen: kantele [1];
Dean Honer: synthesisers [1-2, 4-5];
Cahalen Morrison: 5-string banjo, vocals [3];
Petter Frost Fadnes: saxophone [4];
Olav Luksengård Mjelva: Hardanger fiddle [5]

Tracks

1. Working for Zeus (4.03)
2. Under the Same Moon (3.25)
3. The Day We Made a Wood (3.30)
4. Wood of Dreams (4.26)
5. Sawdust (3.21)

All tracks written by Salt Hause during winter 2020/2021 except
Track 4 lyrics A.E. Houseman

Videos

Riverwoods is a musical response to the conservation film Riverwoods: An Untold Story by Scotland: The Big Picture. The lead single Headwater features in the film’s closing credits. This music sees Salt House further explore their interest in the natural world and our human impact upon it.

“Three years in the making, Riverwoods is a feature-length documentary that shines a light on the perilous state of Scotland’s salmon and tells the compelling story of an inextricable relationship between fish and forest.“ [Scotland: The Big Picture]

Produced by Andy Bell and Salt House;
Recorded by Andy Bell at Tesla and Hudson Studios and by Salt House at home;
Mixed by Andy Bell at Hudson Studios;
Mastered by Dean Honer;
Cover art by Gill Russell;
Design by Robin Beatty

Folk Radio UK review by Glenn Kimpton
FolkNotes album review

Musicians

Lauren MacColl: fiddle, viola, vocals, synthesiser;
Ewan MacPherson: guitars, mandolin, percussion, synthesiser, bass, vocals;
Jenny Sturgeon: guitars, keyboard, piano, synthesiser, harmonium, vocals

with
Andy Bell: synthesiser

Tracks

1. Her Silver Spate (3.50)
2. The Dipper (3.27)
3. Unspoken Waters (3.44)
4. Birch Lines (4.36)
5. River Redds (4.34)
6. The Loom o’ Morn (4.17)
7. The Salmon Run (3.56)
8. Headwater (3.25)

All tracks written by Salt House

Scarrow – Scots: faint light, reflection, the shadow of a crow or hill, the faint light from a wall. Something gleaming intermittently or indistinctly.

Produced by Andy Bell;
Recorded at Gran’s House Studio;
Mixed by Andy Bell at Hudson Studios;
Mastered by Sam Proctor at Lismore Mastering;
Album artwork by Paul Jennings;
Design by Robin Beatty

Musicians

Anna Hughes: vocals, fiddle, viola, tenor guitar;
Ewan MacPherson: vocals, guitars, percussion;
Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, guitars, piano, harmonium, dulcimer

with
Andy Bell: synthesiser;
Magnus Landmark: percussion;
Ben Nicholls: electric bass, double bass

Tracks

1. Autumn on the Run (3.08)
2. Take This Day (3.14)
3. Cut Him Out in Little Stars (3.37)
4. Fathoms (2.24)
5. Headed Our Way (4.01)
6. Snow Walking (3.42)
7. Horizon (3.59)
8. I Met at Eve (3.45)
9. Underwing (5.07)
10. Blackbird (3.55)
11. Waiting for Summer (3.46)
12. Share the Light (4.17)

Track 1 adapted by Jenny Sturgeon from ‘A Winter Phantasy’ by Violet Jacob;
Tracks 2, 5, 11 Anna Hughes;
Tracks 3, 7, 9, 12 Ewan MacPherson;
Track 4 adapted by Jenny Sturgeon from ‘Drowned’ in ‘Songs of the North’, words translated from Gaelic by Rev. A. Stewart;
Track 6, 10 Jenny Sturgeon;
Track 8 adapted by Anna Hughes from ‘I Met at Eve’ by Walter de la Mare