Salt House
Riverwoods
Released 10 Mar 2023
Salt House
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With the SUPER fan bundle you get.
- Signed CD or LP (Sky Blue or Black)
- One of a kind Riverwoods print, with lyrics from the album, hand made by Jenny from Salt House, the band will all sign it. We are only making 12 of these prints.
- Our gratitude and thanks for supporting Salt House and Hudson Records in the making of this music.
Help Salt House with a small step towards offsetting their carbon footprint from CDs and travel by purchasing a tree with your CD, it will be planted in the Salt House grove as part of protected sites in the Scottish Highlands, they will create homes for wildlife and forests for the future.
100% of the money paid will be donated directly to Trees For Life Salt House grove.
Salt House have been a mainstay of the folk scene for a decade. New songs that sound as if they’ve always been here. Ancient ballads woken up. Poems given the melodies they’ve long deserved. Songs strong rooted in place, people and their shared love of the natural world.
The band’s reputation as fine interpreters of words both old and new has been solidified over the past few years with acclaimed album releases and extensive touring both at home and in mainland Europe. Salt House are Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson and Lauren MacColl.
Their studio album ‘Riverwoods’ is a musical response to the feature-length documentary of the same name made by rewilding charity ‘SCOTLAND: The Big Picture’. This - their third release on Hudson Records with Andy Bell - is a collection of both songs and instrumentals inspired by the journey of the atlantic salmon and the much-needed biodiversity along our river systems. “I encourage you to immerse yourself in this beautiful album, to ‘feel’ it and, crucially, to hear its message.” Pete Cairns, Executive Director, STBP.
The Salt House sound is carefully honed - melancholy viola entangled round rich vocals and double-guitar interplay. There’s a strong connection to place in their music - with the band based between the Scottish Highlands and Shetland. Taking their name from a dock in Ewan’s native Liverpool, Salt House draw on a wide range of influence from folk, traditional, and singer-songwriter worlds that they inhabit. Whether it’s on the festival stage or in an intimate theatre, the band share their songs with an empathy that has won them fans far and wide.
Riverwoods follows their EP ‘Working for Zeus’ and the acclaimed 2020 album ‘Huam’.
Tracklist
- Her Silver Spate•
- The Dipper•
- Unspoken Waters•
- Birch Lines•
- River Redds•
- The Loom O’ Morn•
- The Salmon Run•
- Headwater
Credits
- Lauren MacColl fiddle, viola, synth, vocals
- Ewan MacPherson guitars, mandolin, percussion, synth, bass, vocals
- Jenny Sturgeon guitars, keys, piano, synth, harmonium, vocals
- Andy Bell Synth
- Andy Bell & Salt House Producer
- Andy Bell Engineered & Mixed
- Dean Honer Mastered
- Gill Russell Cover Art
- Robin Beatty Design