Snailbeach Mines Trust
by E.L. Heath
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Black Tom Shaft
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Scott Level
03:40
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Chapel Shaft
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Day Level
03:32
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Upper Works Reservoir
06:02
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Perkins Level
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Lordshill Engine Shaft
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Snailbeach Mines Trust is the first Wayside and Woodland release from Shropshire based multi-instrumentalist, Eric Heath.
The Snailbeach Lead Mine, in its heyday, was the largest lead mine in England. Though mining took place from Roman times right up until about 1950, the 1800s saw a massive expansion in mining in the area.
Using guitar, organ, keyboard, field recordings, martenot, piano and voice as the starting point for each of these pieces, Eric then spent time shaping these ideas and fragments to reflect his emotions of returning to somewhere very much engrained in his own childhood. As a result, the pieces display a great deal of emotional depth, ambient beauty and warmth, evocative one minute of the bucolic songs of Nick Drake and Virginia Astley, then effortlessly shifting towards the more reverb drenched layers and textures of Stars of the Lid and Brian Eno.
The Snailbeach Lead Mine, in its heyday, was the largest lead mine in England. Though mining took place from Roman times right up until about 1950, the 1800s saw a massive expansion in mining in the area.
Using guitar, organ, keyboard, field recordings, martenot, piano and voice as the starting point for each of these pieces, Eric then spent time shaping these ideas and fragments to reflect his emotions of returning to somewhere very much engrained in his own childhood. As a result, the pieces display a great deal of emotional depth, ambient beauty and warmth, evocative one minute of the bucolic songs of Nick Drake and Virginia Astley, then effortlessly shifting towards the more reverb drenched layers and textures of Stars of the Lid and Brian Eno.
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released April 5, 2010
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Wayside & Woodland Recordings England, UK
Wayside & Woodland Recordings was founded by Ben Holton and Rob Glover, and is based in South Staffordshire & The West
Midlands.
The home label of epic45, My Autumn Empire and Field Harmonics.
And has released works by E.L. Heath, Component#4, Richard Youngs, Oliver Cherer and Mark Van Hoen.
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