Cloud Horizons by Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Award-winning Northumbrian roots musician Kathryn Tickell releases her second album with The Darkening on September 1 via Resilient Records.

Based in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall yet reaching out to the wider world, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2000 years. Songs range from themes of freedom, nature and venturing out into the world after times of darkness, to a Roman inscription with links to Libya and Syria magnetically pulled into the 21st century by Amen-inspired breakbeats, ominous vocals and the wildest of piping…

Named after the old Northumbrian word for twilight, The Darkening is made up of four North-East England-based members: Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian smallpipes, fiddle, vocals), Amy Thatcher (accordion, synth, clogs, vocals), Kieran Szifris (octave mandolin), Joe Truswell (drums, percussion, programming, plus Stef Conner from Cambridge (vocals, lyres, sistrum) and Josie Duncan from the Isle of Lewis (vocals, clarsach). Together these dazzling musicians create musical magic; dynamic and unique “Ancient Northumbrian Futurism”.

Tracklist

1.	High Way To Hermitage	3:57

2.	Long For Light	4:01

3.	Caelestis	5:23

4.	Quilley Reel	3:10

5.	Freedom Bird	3:52

6.	Just Stop & Eat The Roses	4:00

7.	Bone Music	4:18

8.	Clogstravaganza	2:45

9.	Gods Of War	4:29

10.	One Night In Moaña	4:27

11.	Back To The Rede	4:01

Credits

released September 1, 2023

Kathryn Tickell: Northumbrian Smallpipes, Fiddle, Vocals
Amy Thatcher: Accordion, Synth, Clogs, Vocals
Kieran Szifris: Octave Mandolin
Joe Truswell: Drums, Percussion, Programming

with

Stef Conner: Vocals, Lyres, Sistrum
Josie Duncan: Vocals, Clarsach

Guest on track 10:
Anahi Pena: Pandeireita, Vieira shells, Zamburiña shells
Maír Faltri: Aturuxo

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