Richard Skelton – Selenodesy
With Selenodesy Richard Skelton turns his gaze to the cosmos and gives us his own interpretation in music of the shape of the Moon and its mysteries
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Richard Skelton – A Guidonian Hand
“With this particular album, I think your own personal response to the music is just as valid as what I might have to say. Most of my recent albums, from The Hollows and Four Workings to Lastglacialmaximum and Stadial have had a strong conceptual element, but I simply describe A Guidonian Hand as ‘sinistral’ music…
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Richard Skelton – These charms may be sung over a wound
A year and a half after the delicate and intimate “Border Ballads”, Richard Skelton returns with a new record. He returns so to speak, because the English artist, as usual, has never left… In fact, his path does not follow the classic recording routine of cadenced releases, but must be considered as a continuum in…
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Conversations along the border: an interview with Richard Skelton
We had the privilege to ask some questions via email to English artist Richard Skelton of which we reviewed one of his last works, “Border Ballads”. Even with the limitations of a conversation by correspondence a clear and strong picture appears: the portrait of an artist whose path is not limited to musical expression but…
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Richard Skelton – Border Ballads
Talking about Richard Skelton and his music is not an easy task. The risk is to gaze only at the surface without being able to grasp its mystery. We as enthusiasts are always looking for definitions and reference points, so we usually describe his music as ambient, drone and neoclassical. In my opinion, however, these…
