Submitting.
“I was thinking, OK, these songs tell the stories of individuals, but we need something that encapsulates the sentiment of what I was saying in them. Once you get there, meet the people and walk its streets, you realise there is much more to understand about Govan’s past and present. It’s not just ship land.”
Ainsley Hamill
She opens it with richly voiced, evocative yet elegiac lines: “Salt water and city fill my head / Darkness falls on the bridge…” Unable to cram the Czech Studio Orchestra into her room (social distancing would go out the window), she recruited arranger and composer Lindsay to help with the accompaniment.