Belvedere Mountains Express - Cauldstane Slap (Pigeonhouse) 
For “Cauldstane Slap”, their 3rd album, Belvedere Mountains Express takes inspiration from “Scottish Hills and dying languages” and Howard Goodman’s sparse electronic arrangements are here augmented with a battered old accordion and the lyrics and vocals of Becky Rose Fisher. 

The CD sleeve presents images of bleak, snow covered landscapes and the opening “Dressing-Room Blue” seems to set out their stall to emanate the sense of the inhospitable and inaccessible. The accordion, having similar qualities to the harmonium or even the bagpipes, implants a traditional Scottish folk flavour, yet the interwoven electronic textures add a sense of alienation: an alienation that is sometimes one of isolation and estrangement but sometimes of a more extraterrestrial nature. “Sun Safari” with its switches between pastoral folk, Star Wars-esque bleeps, sparse accordion and atmospherics, confuse the concepts of time and space. 

With the exception of brief excursions into techno territory (as contained in “Our Brumous Isle”) Belvedere Mountains Express wrings much beauty from their stark, desolate, isolated, lonely and barren muse.
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