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Salt House
Working for Zeus
Released 3 Dec 2021
Salt House
Separated by the North Sea during the pandemic, as a band we were greatly missing the thing we love most - creating music in a room together. In the depths of winter we decided to try writing new songs together on zoom. It came with it's challenges and distractions -Ewan and Lauren grappling with mediocre broadband in the rural Highlands, Jenny disappearing off camera when she spotted orca out her window in Shetland. But most of all it kept us connected. Still unable to travel far in the spring, we sent our songs on the journey we couldn't physically - to musicians whose work we greatly admire. Their magic and the mixes of Andy Bell brought these songs to life; songs born out of strange days, a long winter, but ultimately from a complete necessity to create.
On 'Working for Zeus' Salt House are joined by 5 amazing guest musicians Maija Kauhanen, Dean Honer, Cahalen Morrison, Petter Frost Fadnes and Olav Luksengård Mjelva.
Working for Zeus is the follow up EP to Salt House' 2020 album 'Huam'.
Salt House are vocalist, guitarist and harmonium player Jenny Sturgeon, fiddler, viola player and vocalist LaurenMacColl, and vocalist and guitarist Ewan MacPherson.
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.
Tracklist
- Working for Zeus•
- Under the Same Moon•
- The Day We Made a Wood•
- Wood of Dreams•
- Sawdust
Credits
- Lauren MacColl fiddle, viola, glockenspiel, vocals
- Ewan MacPherson vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo
- Jenny Sturgeon vocals, guitar, keys, harmonium
- Maija Kauhanen Kantele (Track 1)
- Dean Honer Synths (Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5)
- Cahalen Morrison 5-string banjo, vocals (Track 3)
- Petter Frost Fadnes Bass Clarinet (Track 4)
- Olav Luksengård Mjelva Hardanger fiddle (Track 5)
- Andy Bell Mix
- Dean Honer Master
- Archie MacFarlane Photography
- Robin Beatty Design
- "A gentle lulling delight" – The Guardian
- "Outstanding" – Irish Music Magazine
- "*****" – fRoots
