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'Landings' is a series of recordings produced for the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire, UK. Originally published as two discrete albums (the first under a pseudonym) via the artist's own Sustain-Release Private Press, the second album was reissued on vinyl (2009) and CD (2010) by the influential Manchester-based experimental music label Type Records. A third instalment was produced in 2011 to coincide with an exhibition of the work at Dublin's Douglas Hyde Gallery.

These three albums now comprise 'The Complete Landings':

(1) Carousell ~ Landings (28th June, 2006)
(2-13) Richard Skelton ~ Landings (28th June, 2009)
(14) Richard Skelton ~ Rapture (28th June, 2011)

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Praise for 'Landings':

‘A primeval tonal language … like the land singing to itself.’
(Backseat Mafia)

‘Skelton’s music transcends a simple representation of the moorland landscape. It channels the essence of the landscape.’
(Area Journal)

‘The sound of private ritual, loaded with personal significances. It is a privilege to hear.’
(XLR8R)

‘The most sustained musical and literary project of the last two decades … a profoundly deep mapping of a highly specific location.’
(Landscapes Journal)

‘With ‘Landings’, Richard Skelton has created something vast, resonant and timeless. The work and drive behind it has created a document that requires a new kind of categorisation.’
(The Line of Best Fit)

‘His music proceeds as if by geological processes: time feels stretched out, layers accumulate and interlock into complexity, and it’s underpinned by a gravity and drift whose appeal is at once emotional and elemental, as if these sounds have always hung shimmering in the spaces between air and land.’
(Frieze Magazine)

Digital music editions from Corbel Stone Press & Sustain-Release.

All releases are the work of Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton.

1. corbelstonepress.com
2. sustain-release.co.uk