“Over the last year and a half I have gone through periods of believing that recording my feelings of isolation and solitude would be worthwhile, but it didn’t take very long before I realised that I’d taken in enough meditations on loneliness for a lifetime. Instead, I’ve recorded something closer to the opposite. Some of these pieces are from my childhood; others reference a sort of ideal childlike state; but everything on this album has given me deep comfort and sustenance over a difficult and traumatic period. “

- Sean Shibe 

“All this perfectly suits Shibe’s great gift for painting notes in what seems a thousand colours, with multiple dynamic shadings en route. ..there are exquisite and tender sounds everywhere you look”

(Geoff Brown, The Times 5*, August 2021)

“It’s a beautifully intimate recording, full of playing that is as far from classical-guitar cliche .. full of big, bold gestures and soft, subtle shifts in colour. All the transitions from piece to piece, key to key, have been similarly meticulously thought through – but what’s really striking is the way in which Shibe sustains a world of intensity and introspection through playing that buzzes with vitality. The attention to detail in his playing is breathtaking; nothing interrupts the flow of the music, and nothing is done purely for effect.”

( Erica Jeal, The Guardian 5*, August 2021)