The Heart of the Anchoress

The record started life as a three day recording session at St Giles Church in Camberwell, south London. The airy experiments and embryonic compositions that emerged were then transferred to the intimacy of the bedroom studio where they were twisted, teased, pruned and nurtured into the collection of sublime songs here presented. Scout's innate sense for narrative has been the guide for every sculpting gesture. Incidental sounds (the creaking of the pump organ, the sirens of the metropolitan police) are prized and serve to ground us in place, while Scout’s emergent, mantra-like songs succeed in opening portals to heavenly vistas, where scenes of golden-hour/after-hour intimacy softly unfold.