Lost Maps & Long Barrows

This album explores the quiet persistence of mental maps, those inner landscapes shaped by every journey we’ve made. The trails we know by heart are etched into us through repetition and emotional resonance. A single route may carry the weight of years, layered with snapshots of a life but these ways are not ours alone, they are part of a shared story. While the impressions of countless footsteps have faded, ancient trackways remain carved into the land, and long barrows, hill forts, and standing stones mark enduring destinations.

Like migratory birds guided by tiny flecks of magnetite in their beaks that align them with the Earth, we are drawn forward, not by compass or star, but by the quiet pull of familiarity. Music, too, tethers us to a place and time, deepening the impressions we carry. In this way, sound becomes our guide, orienting us in time and place. Each path we take is gathered up like thread, weaving into others before unraveling, pressed into the ground.

Just as the Sweet Track is tangible evidence of how long people have followed the same lines through the landscape, these audio tracks plot my own course, shaped by well-worn terrain and the gentle pull of home, while leaving you space to follow your own. Every listener arrives with their own sense of place, and where sound meets space, new maps can always be unfolded.