Euan Dalgarno - Cliff Workshop
Released: May 15 Euan Dalgarno’s latest album was created in early 2025 during which time he was recovering from an accident. This may sound like an ancillary factor but sonically this time seems to have played an important role in what we are presented with now. The atmosphere is overall quite ghostly, evoking blank-ish scenes of neutral colors with an unusual brightness about them. It feels much like the aural equivalent of walking down a bright hospital corridor. There’s a certain listlessness to many of the pieces, which contrasts beautifully the more dynamic piece on the album such as “The Bealach.” This track keeps that same atmosphere but replaces the spacious and blank pads with a small piano melody that is recessed in the overall stereo field, but keeps an unusually poignant presence at the same time. Perhaps this is the sound of hope and moving forward? “Ghostdust” makes certain cues towards more dynamic nature of the album, featuring a recurring motif of the thin ...
