Tracks from various releases that can be found here:
https://simonopit.bandcamp.com/

Releases

Folio 5

track 4 from A Hard Singing of Country
https://simonopit.bandcamp.com/album/a-hard-singing-of-country

four

track 2 from unpainted landscape https://simonopit.bandcamp.com/album/unpainted-landscape

unpainted landscape #1

track 5 from as many years as the night
https://simonopit.bandcamp.com/album/as-many-years-as-the-night

under Gowks Hill

track 5 from never anything any more there
https://simonopit.bandcamp.com/album/never-anything-any-more-there

parenthesis 2

track 4 from security of the obvious
https://simonopit.bandcamp.com/album/security-of-the-obvious

forgetting

Lapping water of Loch na Beiste accompanied by sheep grazing at the loch side and the sound of the distant surf. 

Sennheiser MKH 8040 ORTF MixPre 3ii

Loch Na Beiste

3_10

Gentle Fire

Song 2

Clatter

Breath Bell

Stone and Wood

Song 1

Two Days walking above Loch an Daimh Glen Lyon National Scenic Area Perthshire Scotland Spring 2024

4.30am morning chorus following overnight camp beside Loch an Damph. Species include Curlew and Cuckoo.

12th May 2024

MKH 8020 spaced pair + Zoom F3

Morning

A Days Walking in the Hills North of Innerleithen Scottish Borders Summer 2024

A lone Golden Plover vocalises near the southwestern top of Windlestraw Law. 

 7th July 2024. 

EM272 pair + Sony A10

Windlestraw Law

Ardmore is a remote crofting settlement in the far northwest of Scotland. 

8040 (ORTF) + Zoom F3

Peaceful Ardmore Afternoon

A Walk to Highest Point in the Monadhliath Mountains Cairngorms National Park Scotland Autumn Equinox 2024

While designated a Special Area of Conservation, whose interior is rarely visited, the environment is subjugated by sporting estates for driven grouse shooting. These are "broken hills, damaged and desolate." (John D. Burns)

To add to the denigration, the sound of commercial flights are ever present and compete with other, older flight paths. 

22nd September 2024

MKH8020 spaced pair + Zoom F3

Flight Paths

A days walk in the Black Mount range Argyl Scotland Autumn 2024

First snows, waterfall, wind,  deer rut, distant far below…

13th October 2024

MKH8020 spaced pair + Zoom F3

Rut (Far Below)

One days walk along Glen Tanar Aberdeenshire Scotland Autumn 2024.

The root of the word Tanar is to be found in the Old Celtic tanar-os meaning the “noisy, loud-sounding stream” however, today it was the wind that won over.

Half Way Hut. Strong wind in mixed wood canopy.

18th October 2024

MKH8020 pair + Zoom F3

Tanar

A Days wandering walk around and over Ben Ledi Stirlingshire Scotland Winter 2021

Icy fringe around Lochan nan Corp along the old coffin road from Glen Finlas to St Bride's chapel 

2nd December 2021

Sony PCM D100

Lochan of the Dead

A document of a changing soundscape. Hopefully this glen will settle back to a more undisturbed state as theLoch Arkaig fish farm in the Scottish Highlands is scheduled to close in April 2025. The Norwegian salmon farmer Mowi Scotland announced the closure after failing to agree on a lease extension with local authorities following sustainability concerns. 
January 2025
Sony PCM D100

Loch Arkaig Fish Farm

While walking along Loch Treig a strange looking yellow rail vehicle passed on the other bank heading for Fort William. My best guess was it was a RRV performing de-icing activities on the railway line that links Glasgow with the North West of Scotland. January 2025. Sony PCM 100

Photo by Network Rail

Road Rail Vehicle (RRV) Loch Treig

An 'Explosive cyclogenesis' fuelled storm passing through Edinburgh, Winter 2025. Storm Éowyn deepened by 50 millibars in 24 hours. Winds recordered passing through building cladding and temporary scaffold on the kings building campus of Edinburgh University. 
24th January 2025
MKH 8020 spaced pair + Zoom F3

Storm Éowyn (Kings Buildings Edinburgh University)

An 'Explosive cyclogenesis' fuelled storm passing through Edinburgh, Winter 2025. Storm Éowyn deepened by 50 millibars in 24 hours. Tine can being blown up and down the street.
24th January 2025
Sony PCM D100

Storm Éowyn (tin can in the street)

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