Landscape by Landscape

Four tracks of ambience recorded the week before Christmas 2021.

Cover is a detail of Colin McCahon's 'The Days And Nights In The Wilderness'.

For non NZrs, the titles are place names in te Reo Māori, the indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand. Pāuatahanui is an inlet near Porirua, north of Wellington, near where I lived when my children were born. Titirangi Maunga is Mt Atkinson, the hill behind the house I grew up in and the highest point on the Auckland isthmus. Maungakieie is Mt Eden, a hill in central Auckland. I lived there in my mid and late 20s. It's the site of one of the largest pre-European towns. Aramoana is a small, desolate and beautiful coastal township near Dunedin, at the south of te Wai Pounamu, the South Island, the city I lived in from 2001 to 2008.

I acknowledge the history of Aotearoa New Zealand and the rights of Maori, its indigenous people, in this work.