second language

Featuring a host of artists from Second Language, Drifts & Flurries is a sonically varied but thematically coherent album which at every turn is ambitious and surprising, always in tune with the wintry landscape but also with the interior landscapes of the human mind, which can be just as cold and just as beautiful.

Today’s Song of the Day comes via the Second Language label and Silver Servants who indulge in the outer margins of electro-acoustic experimentation.

Somewhere between the dream world and reality Oliver Cherer has conjured Sir Ollife Leigh And Other Ghosts, a beautiful, shadowed, mysteroious song cycle about life and death.

Saville is a keen gardener, and much of ‘Public Flowers’ is the auditory equivalent of time-lapse footage of an emergent flower: simple, concentrated, dew-speckled and mesmerizingly beautiful.

Our Song of the Day is the wonderfully pastoral Rookery Wood from the album ‘Tyneham House’ that was jointly released by Clay Pipe Music and Second Language.

The Music and Migration series seeks to capture the fleeting magic of migration in song. That it has now reached its third instalment is a testament to the quality of material its subject inspires.

The latest release from Sharron Kraus is ‘Pilgrim Chants and Pastoral Trails’, a fitting testament to a loving engagement with a corner of the countryside that remains as magical as ever.

Multi-instrumentalist and singer Áine O’Dwyer released Anything Bright Or Startling? on the Second Language label back in June which featured vocals for the first time, watch her performing live at Cafe OTO

The Weighing of the Heart is Colleen’s first studio album in six years which has arrived with sudden, gentle surprise, like a migrating bird that has appeared too early. It is a gleaming treasure.