My second ‘studio’ album is finally released on all good streaming platforms today.
Recorded between Scotland, Shetland, Iceland, and the Faroes between 2019-2022.
In other news, my short story ‘Less Than Baleful’ was included in Northlink’s Onward Voyager anthology, you can read the story on page 27 of this handy downloadable PDF >>> Here <<<
They didn’t include the glossary of colloquialisms I included in the text, so here it is for reference:
Glossary
corbie – raven
Dewar-bottle – flask for maintaining liquid temperature
heiðaberries – crowberries of the heath
limpit-grease – fishing bait, parboiled limpets held in the mouth
faerdie-maet – food for a journey
piltack – a mature pollock
shalder – oystercatcher
shoormal – where shore meets sea, the high water mark, sound of waves meeting land
sillack – a young pollock
simmer-dim – midnight sun of late spring into early summer, never sets for long
skerry – a rock out to sea, not quite an island
þarn – paralysis in fear
wastwind – strong winds blowing from the west
Annabel Strange 