This is the video for my Christmas single, ’Belle of the North’. It’s a kind of fairy story with a strong woman as the central character. I was inspired by the life of women who live above the arctic circle bringing up families in harsh conditions where the temperature regularly drops to minus 50, surrounded by ice and diamond mines in the permafrost. It’s from my new solo album ‘There and Back’. If you listen, I hope you enjoy it.
‘There and Back’ is my first solo video album of eleven experimental railway journey inspired songs, soundscapes and visuals.
The album is a combination of songs, spoken word, instrumentals and soundscapes illuminating a series of railway journeys mostly in my home county of East Yorkshire, UK. Each track is the same length, under 3 minutes long, yet each track is experimental in a different way, both music and visually.
‘There and Back’ is released on the DHM record label catalogue number DHM036 on all the usual digital platforms and on Bandcamp now at the link: https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/album/there-and-back-by-lou-duffy-howard
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Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard