hymen by Simon Aulman

It's a very quiet simple melancholy album full of short pieces - to me it reflects the mood of REAL walking - not a Sunday-afternoon-stroll, but a two-month slow low-key tramp around the quieter parts of the countryside, sleeping quietly and without permission in pine forests and the small overlooked oases that are becoming increasingly rare in England. All the pieces were made on that simple cheap keyboard I got in Lidl a couple of weeks ago, so it's nothing clever, but I think it's the most beautiful album I've done. It's one for listening to at 3am. In fact I have been playing it at 3am these last few nights, and it does send me back to sleep - which is not a criticism. Don't think I've ever had more than about 2 downloads of any of my albums so far, so I doubt there's a demand for something like this - or maybe it's exactly what the world is aching for. It's an album from and for a dreamer.


(photo by me, on the footpath between Lockerley and Pepperbox Hill, January 2021)