Three major references run through Andrew Heath unique musical universe: the sea, the map, the landscape. These references fit naturally into one another. There are nautical charts, just as there are maritime landscapes.
But in the end, the common thread, the guiding and leading principle, is space, expanse, perspective. A constant interplay between surface and depth.
Each of the sixteen compositions on "Scapa Flow" opens a window onto a fragment of the world, a space-time where vanishing lines are traced, where thoughts stretch out in dreamy contemplation.
Andrew Heath's music is a praise of contemplative slowness, of a presence in the world hic et nunc, where we commune with a landscape, fly over a map, trace a wake on a distant ocean.
Ethereal layers punctuated by the melancholy of sparse piano notes, crossed by the shimmer of an electric guitar caressed by a bow that sublimates its harmonics, while here and there, concrete oscillations, creaks and murmurs, discreet "objets sonores" sketch out possible places, the deck of a sailboat, ropes and sails beaten by the winds, floors crunching under invisible footsteps.
Slowness and depth, long comets of reverberating notes: "Scapa Flow" reinvents an intimate and subtle ambient music where everything is but soulful shifts as time flies away...
