Produced by Jonny Hardie;
Recorded by Jonny Hardie at Studio 1604;
Mastered by Niall Mathewson at The Mill Studio, Crathes;
Cover design by Helen Greensmith

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals;
Jonny Hardie: vocals, fiddle, guitars, whistle;
Pete Coutts: vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo;
Davy Cattanach: percussion;
Grant Anderson: double bass;
Steven Crawford: vocals

Tracks

1. Thunder (3.23)
2. Black Muddy River (3.01)
3. Greenwood Side (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (4.48)
4. Grey Funnel Line (3.57)
5. Whaler’s Song (Roud 970; G/D 1:10) (3.34)
6. Beneath the Waves (6.01)

Tracks 1, 6 Jenny Sturgeon;
Track 2 Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter;
Tracks 3, 5 trad. arr. Jonny Hardie, Jenny Sturgeon;
Track 4 Cyril Tawney

Video

Jenny Sturgeon sings Black Muddy River in Tamarach, Scotland, in 2017:

Recorded at Studio 1604;
Produced by Simon Gall, Jonny Hardie and Grant Anderson;
Mixed by Jonny Hardie and Grant Anderson;
Mastered by Marc Clement;
Artwork by Will T.S. Miles and Jenny Sturgeon;
Design by Laura Bremner

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, Indian harmonium, guitar;
Jonny Hardie: guitar, fiddle, tenor guitar, vocals;
Grant Anderson: double bass, electric bass, vocals;
Davy Cattanach: percussion, vocals;
Fraser Fifield: whistles, saxophone;
Brian McAlpine: accordion;
Aongus Mac Amhlaigh: cello;
Rahul K Ravindran, Hannah Crawford, Ana-Maia MacLellan: vocals

Tracks

1. Maiden Stone (4.31)
2. Raven (3.53)
3. Running Free (3.58)
4. Selkie (4.17)
5. Nowhere Else I’d Rather Be (3.25)
6. Honest Man (4.16)
7. Cùlan (4.55)
8. Linton (4.01)
9. Harbour Masters (2.52)
10. Judgement (2.09)
11. The Honours (2.40)
12. Fair Drawin’ In (2.58)

All track written by Jenny Sturgeon except
Track 2 Jenny Sturgeon, Davy Cattanach;
Track 7 Jenny Sturgeon, Ana-Maia MacLellan

Video

Jenny Sturgeon sings Selkie, accompanied by Charlie McKerron and Jonny Hardie, in St Margaret’s in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in July 2020 (or earlier):

Commissioned by The National Trust for Scotland, to celebrate 30 years since St Kilda became a World Heritage Site for nature.

Recorded at Studio 1604;
Produced by Jenny Sturgeon, Jonny Hardie and Pete MacCallum;
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering;
Artwork by Will Miles

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, field recordings of St Kilda Wren, Kittiwake and island weather;
Jonny Hardie: fiddle, vocals;
Pete MacCallum: guitar, vocals;
Magnus Robb & The Sound Approach: field recordings of Leach’s Petrel and Manx Shearwater

Tracks

1. The Wren and the Salt Air (3.28)
2. St Kilda Set (5.45)
3. Seabird (2.27)
4. Oiseval Lament (2.59)

All track written by Jenny Sturgeon

Video

Jenny Sturgeon sings The Wren and the Salt Air:

The Living Mountain is an audio-visual performance inspired by Nan Shepherd’s celebrated book of the same name. The project explores Nan’s writing, the Cairngorm mountain range and human connections with the wild through lyrical, melodic and visual interpretation. Jenny is working alongside film curator Shona Thomson and filmmaker Robyn Spice. Visuals feature stunning imagery from Scotland: The Big Picture and 1940s archive film from National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. The meditative experience of the combined audio and imagery are a soothing and poignant exploration of what it means to connect with a landscape and to find a sense of place.

Recorded, mixed and produced by Andy Bell at at Clashnettie Arts Centre in the Cairngorm National Park;
Mastered by Dean Honer;
Photography by Anne Campbell;
Cover photography by Hannah Bailey;
Design by Robin Beatty

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, dulcimer, whistle, synthesiser, field recordings;
Grant Anderson: vocals, bass;
Mairi Campbell: viola, vocals;
Su-a Lee: cello;
Andy Bell: synthesiser, percussion, vocals;
Jez Riley French: field recordings [5, 7];
Magnus Robb & The Sound Approach: field recordings [8]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Plateau (3.02)
2. The Recesses (2.45)
3. The Group (4.59)
4. Water (3.30)
5. Frost and Snow (3.21)
6. Air & Light (4.50)
7. The Plants (3.37)

Side 2

8. Birds, Animals, Insects (4.28)
9. Man (3.59)
10. Sleep (4.52)
11. The Senses (5.57)
12. Being (7.07)

All tracks written by Jenny Sturgeon except
Track 11 Jenny Sturgeon, Annie Sturgeon;
Track 4 adapted from Nan Shepherd’s poem ‘Singing Burn’;
Track 8 adapted from Nan Shepherd’s poem ‘Fires’

Videos

Jenny Sturgeon sings Air & Light:

Jenny Sturgeon at the Hudson Records Listening Club on 18 October 2020:

Produced and mixed by Jasmine Rodgers;
Mastered by Ed Woods;
Art work by Anne Campbell

Musicians

Jasmine Rodgers, Jenny Sturgeon: vocals;
Jonny Hardie: fiddle

Tracks

1. Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (3.26)

Track 1 Richard Fariña

Mixed by Andy Bell

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, keyboards;
M.G. Boulter: vocals, guitars, lap steel

Tracks

1. Flint Knapped (4.18)

Track 1 Jenny Sturgeon, M.G. Boulter

Mixed by Andy Bell;
Photography by Julia Parks

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, guitar, keyboards;
Alice Allen: cello

Tracks

1. Cut & Run (3.31)

Track 1 Jenny Sturgeon

Produced by Jenny Sturgeon, Grant Anderson and Alice Allen;
Recorded and mixex by Andy Bell at Mareel, Shetland, in 18 May 2023;
Assistant engineer Tim Matthew;
Additional recording by Jenny Sturgeon, Grant Anderson and Alice Allen;
Mastered by Sam Proctor;
Cover photography by Anne Campbell;
Band photography by May Graham;
Design by Robin Beatty

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: vocals, piano, electric guitar, field recordings;
Alice Allen: cello, vocals, keys, percussion;
Grant Anderson: vocals, bass, keys, electric guitar, synth, phone noises, kalimba, vocoder

Tracks

1. Wintergreen (3.11)
2. Solitude (2.51)
3. Beyond the You and I (3.20)
4. Frost and Snow (2.44)
5. Sycamore (4.10)
6. Cut and Run (3.31)

Track 1 adapted by Jenny from Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s poem ‘Song for Pyrola uniflora’;
Track 2 Lynn MaFarland-Shaw, Jenny Sturgeon;
Tracks 3, 5 Grant Anderson, Jenny Sturgon;
Track 4 Jenny Sturgon;
Track 6 by Alice Allen, Jenny Sturgon

Produced by Jenny Sturgeon, Boo Hewerdine and Chris Pepper;
Written and recorded between Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine’s homes on Shetland and in Glasgow during 2020/21;
Mixed by Chris Pepper;
Mastered by Mark Freegard;
Photography by Susan Molloy;
Design by Robin Beatty

At the Barrier album review by Seuras Og
KLOF Magazine review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon, Boo Hewerdine: vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, samples;
Chris Pepper: keyboards, percussion;
Peter Harvey: cello [4]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Longest Day (3.25)
2. A Wish That Never Came True (2.58)
3. Salvage (3.23)
4. Lines (4.14)
5. Indigo (5.52)

Side 2

6. No Words (2.58)
7. Anoymous (2.34)
8. Heard (2.42)
9. Dusk (1.59)
10. Little One (3.17)
11. Chime (1.26)
12. Powercuts (2.42)

Written by Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine

Ambient recordings made during a 864km walk on the Scottish National Trail in summer 2023

KLOF review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Jenny Sturgeon: sound recording, walking

Tracks

1. opens.chin.quicksand (3.03)
2. baked.skies.hamsters (3.07)
3. screeches.tarred.frowns (1.36)
4. branch.subway.violinist (2.42)
5. travel.clauses.disposing (2.36)
6. minder.booms.open (4.48)
7. foster.pump.insert (2.42)
8. daily.engine.driver (2.43)
9. windpipe.conductor.dawn (3.00)
10. loafing.rivers.trailing (2.36)
11. treatable.early.terminal (2.45)
12. doubt.clay.tugging (2.28)
13. butter.midfield.gurgled (3,15)
14. churn.squashes.easily (8.13)
15. learn.unloading.journals (2.31)
16. cornfield.torched.breath (2.46)
17. nest.violinist.seemingly (2.36)
18. copiers.aboard.sneezing (2.43)
19. beamed.prospers.rolled (2.44)
20. porridge.smoke.remains (2.50)
21. thinnest.outlines.informed (2.43)
22. supple.sofa.trackers (2.36)
23. flipping.shallower.avocado (2.19)
24. flock.amazed.tent (2.19)
25. stamp.throats.airstrip (2.28)
26. apparatus.comically.pickle (1.40)
27. verse.escalates.taken (2.42)
28. drilling.lunge.brighter (1.48)
29. microfilm.hostels.pastels (3.18)
30. pounce.ruling.onwards (3.18)
31. arrive.deck.irrigated (2.45)
32. collapsed.strut.rollers (3.21)
33. shout.ears.arranger (2.51)