Behind the finest and most moving pieces of contemporary-classical music lie deeply personal and poignant stories, and Simon Goff's new album Vale is no exception. The British violinist and composer's dazzling exploration of the interface between violin and technology and between the poles of intimacy and grandeur, as rich and deep and wide as the landscape that lies it's heart, named after the Vale of York where Goff grew up. The album encapsulates not just a landscape but a place in time and an identity forged through youth and adulthood, all viewed from his current base in Berlin. A1. Vale A2. Wooden Islands A3. A Process in the Weather of the Heart A4. Murmur B1. Elowen B2. Now B3. I filled my Lungs with the Necessary Air, and Yelled! B4. Sleeping Winds
