STYLE
Ambient spaces and landscapes with percussive incidentals and some beats. Auburn Silhouette contains tracks with smooth ambient sheets, an almost choral tone at times lurking beneath; warm, harmonious synths shot through with brassy strains; booming, dense sonic environments suggestive of roaring emptiness, atonal turbulences, atmospheric disturbance. These sound zones are embellished with subtle snatches of melody on guitar and keyboard, the echoing chirps of birds, sampled sounds, short warbling sequences, jangling metallics ringing and clattering, rich, deep chimes. There is the low, far off booming of a single colossal drum softened by distance, random, arrythmic percussives that sound like processed field recordings, fluttering electro-grooves that don't quite unite into beats and plenty of beatless void, open air weightless, vaporous. Two tracks break the mold - first Hole In The Sky where rock chords and drums with a synth lead deliver an instrumental that could have come straight off a seventies concept album and the final piece Winter Of The Falling Stars with strumming acoustic guitar, electric lead, complete drum kit and electronic enhancements.

MOOD
Serene and warm, revelling in wonderment at the earth and the universe and then dark and isolationist, heavy, grey textures overlaid with thin strains and sweeps of tuned air. There are also exotic and global elements such as the rolling, clanging chimes of Munstead Heath and the almost tribal drumming thumping in regular measure on the drifting Southern Lights. A number of tracks create gloomy abyssal underlays that evoke dark depths or universal immensity coloured by delicate surface detail, hints of peripheral light or soft melodic touches. The two rock tracks present laid back, feel good pieces with hints of psychedelic transportation.

ARTWORK
Auburn shadows trace the silhouette of an elegant tree onto the rough surface of a whitewashed wall - at one end warm and sun touched, at the other cool and drained of colour in shade. Titles are separated from the imagery by being placed within flat monochrome bands - brown, black. On the reverse tracks are listed each with their playing times. Inside is a two page fold out that takes the front cover wall into closer view, here acting as a backdrop to credits, thanks and website info all sprawled diagonally across the dappled light and soft shadows.