Iceland is a place that I love very much.

There are roughly two hundred fifty glaciers remaining in Iceland. The deterioration of glaciers has rapidly accelerated in the last twenty years, and scientists estimate that in the next 200 years all of Iceland’s glaciers will have disappeared due to global warming.

This album was written and recorded based on a series of field recordings I made in Iceland during a 400 mile bicycle trip I took there with my wife.

The idea behind the project was to travel into wild places currently at risk, record the soundscape, then turn those field recordings into fully realized compositions back in the studio.

The album incorporates field recordings I made in Iceland, with data sonification, pedal steel, electric guitar and tapes. I first captured the soundscape, then synthesized those field recordings in different ways back in the studio. Those recordings became the foundation for this record, even if they’re now unrecognizable.

All comparison pictures: 3D composite of aerial photography from the National Land Survey of Iceland; UAV photography by Dr Kieran Baxter, University of Dundee. 1980s survey photographs: National Land Survey of Iceland.