Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars

After first gaining attention for representational acoustic beauties, the guitarist digs deeper into abstraction, until the physical trappings of her instrument largely melt away.

Experimental folk musician Sarah Louise Henson made her name as both a composer and a skilled 12-string acoustic guitarist with a distinctive style that made her music and the instrument seem uniquely interdependent.

Sarah Louise directly describes the instrumental parameters of the music on her latest album, Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars, in the liner notes.

Sarah Louise has taken to the same old woods with some new tools

Sarah Louise - Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars review: Starlit wankery; or, an aural panoramic of the Milky Way galaxy.