The Safety Of The North

Graham Richardson's Last Days project returns with this 2009 full-length. Richardson has fully embraced his cinematic tendencies, expanding his creative palette to include spoken excerpts, a vocal collaboration with Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees, and a script-based compositional approach. Drawing on a theme first explored in Sea's Arrival at Jan Mayen (in which it's sailor is first excited by the prospect of a distant island home, then disappointed by it's barren terrain), the Safety of the North tells the story of Alice, her parents and their relocation to a remote northern land. Disappointed with the trappings of the city, they wish for a simpler, more rewarding way of life.