I use the Idler review for this. A strange, enchanting and magical record: 'Recorded directly onto a Niagra machine in the Polish village of Sokolowsko - legendarily the village which inspired Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The Magic Mountain, Hiraeth is an exploratory and dream-;ole blend of ambiend folk and environmental sound.. With zithers, harpsm Minimoog , pipe, organ and layered field recordings, the album drifts through a vivid,improvised, landscape that theduo likens to a ' little ecosystem, alive and spirited.' Named after the intranslateable Welsh word for a kind of longing, Hiraeth channels that ache fpr place and memory. This is healing music, an essential balm for uneasy times.
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