We are two musicians who live in the national park of Dartmoor, in the South-West of England. We have been creating landscape and nature inspired music since 2005.
Some of our many memorable highlights have seen us spending time with an Aboriginal tribe in the remote central mountainous regions of Taiwan; performing in the basement of the Downtown Music Gallery in New York, the Avant Garden Club in Houston, and the sublime Zeitgeist art house cinema in New Orleans; and giving a 2am recital to a cool and very wide awake hip crowd at the Two Days, Two Nights Contemporary Music Festival in Odessa!
We have recorded nine albums for FMR records which have enabled our music to travel across musical boundaries and geographical borders. We are delighted that our music is regularly broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM, alongside BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM, ABC Australia, Radio New Zealand, WDR, ORF, RTHK, Latvia Radio 3, KRKQ, Albany WRPI, local Art stations, including Phonic FM, South Dublin FM and Devonstream, as well as many internet stations in Europe, Japan and the US.
In 2025 we collaborated with Antonia Bukhar Ssebuuma and students from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, on a project entitled Freedom Dances. Twelve composers created new works which were choreographed and premièred at Late Music York, May 2025.
Earlier that year, we released the second album, Hemispheres II, continuing our work with Sam Hodder, Paul Rider-Boon and Clifton Bieundurry. This has been used by the Award Winning Australian film maker, Nathan Dyer, for one of his projects.
In 2023 and 2024, we performed with Corvus Consort for their project, Byrd Takes Flight, which included a tour of the UK, a broadcast on live on BBC Radio 3 In Tune and a much acclaimed performance at the Three Choirs Festival.
In the same year, we extended our Lapin Agile programme for Late Music York, with commissions from David Lancaster, Hayley Jenkins and David Power and worked with student composers from the University of York St John.
We first commissioned Athena Corcoran-Tadd in 2022, and premièred her work, Hope is a Boat, on tour in South West Cork, Ireland;’performing in an ancient castle and the iconic venue, Levis. It is now available on our Bandcamp page, recorded by Classical Media. The same year we gave a series of performances in North Norfolk and developed an education project in North Norfolk schools, working alongside students from the Purcell School, supported by the North Norfolk Arts Society and the Yorke Trust.
In 2021, we were one of the Artists in Residence for Strike-a-Light, at the University of Gloucester.
Earlier that year, we released the EP, Hemispheres. We worked with musicians from Australia to create an optimistic and evocative indie mix, blending sounds from both hemispheres.
Since 2012, we have been curating a music series in the heart of Dartmoor, presenting eclectic music into the heart of our community. This has become an exciting meeting place for expansion and dialogue and a focus for the exchange of artistic ideas.
In 2020, we had the opportunity to perform meditative music in support of mental health and well being, in the glorious space of Wells Cathedral, Somerset, aptly described as the most poetic of English cathedrals.
We have worked with many artists and created music to accompany exhibitions, documentaries, nature journals and multi media productions. In 2018-19, the artist André Wallace commissioned us to create the music for his exhibition, the Voyage, at Poole Museum. The music for this was released in 2020, on our album, Coracle of Life. It was exhibited again In Glastonbury, at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, throughout the summer of 2025.
Our first album, Mariner’s Way, was released on the FMR label in 2009. Here we musically followed the mythical footsteps of the ancient mariner, travelling across Dartmoor. It received stunning reviews both nationally and overseas. Our own musical voyage had begun.