Landings is a loose-fitting collection of writings that obliquely articulate ideas about memory, mark making, proximity and loss, a sense of place and the landscape (its voices, history and folklore). Along with diary entries, the book gathers together word lists, poetry and prose fragments from 2004 to 2008, and in many ways provides a kind of private narrative and companion guide to much of the music published through Sustain-Release during that period.

Accompanying this limited edition, 96-page book is a 70-minute music CD which represents the culmination of over four years spent recording in the landscape of Lancashire's West Pennine Moors. Together, these words and music are an attempt to imaginatively engage with a landscape, to connect with a place and its history in a way that is filled with gesture and ritual.

"A Romantic document, a record of an intimate relationship with place and a minutely observed mapping of the local — it might come to be put alongside Richard Long, Gilbert White, Alice Oswald, Ted Hughes."

The Line of Best Fit

"We are made to participate in this powerful, at times almost ritualistic, study of death and decay, of grief and letting go, of rebirth and transformation, of landscapes and lifetimes and — above all — of the (im)permanence of the collective memory. Landings is, without any doubt, the summation of his work to date. A monument and a legacy. A rich and unforgettable experience."

Mapsadaisical