Robin Saville, Peasgood Nonsuch (Static Caravan)

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Although sounding more like the name of a character Shakespeare struck from the script of "A Midsummer Night´s Dream" in his final revision, "Peasgood Nonsuch" is actually a variety of apple grown in England (best harvested in October).

Robin Saville´s album is so very evocative of rural England, so much and so pleasantly so that it is almost the magically anthropomorphized England of classic children´s tales. Imagine if a character in "The Wind in the Willows" had been a composer - this is what he would have written.

It is good-natured and dry-witted, which is evident both in track titles and the light touch brought to the compositions and the playing. Swaying and bubbling electronics are delicately combined with acoustic instruments, usually a guitar. Saville stays low to the ground and conveys the essense of a shift in the breeze or the fragrance of a flower, the smallest and therefore most important elements of the bucolic life.

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