With the Mercury Music Prize being announced last night, we announce the winner of our inaugural Uranus Music Prize…
Richard Skelton
Clouwbeck – From Which the River Rises
From Which the River Rises documents Richard Skelton’s fascination with the River Yarrow on the West Penine Moors and on it, like an alchemist, he manages to evoke the raw tissue of experience.
A Broken Consort – Crow Autumn
A stunning compilation of Skelton’s work: rich and verbose without a word ever needing to be heard. Ash Akhtar reviews.
“Born from stones, dirt and grasses”
Richard Skelton writes an exclusive piece about the influence of nature on creating a personal journey through a landscape that he believed was familiar, but soon realised was very alien.
Richard Skelton – Landings
Landings is the culmination of years of the near-obsessive recording of Skelton’s collaboratory relationship with the West Pennine Moors around Anglezarke. It is a conjuring, a chronicle of a disappearance, an insight into the process of healing. It feels like something of a summation. It is extraordinary.
Richard Skelton to release album as A Broken Consort next month
Skelton, recording again as A Broken Consort – his most prolific and successful pseudonym – builds on the achievements of last year’s Box Of Birch with a new album Crow Autumn.
