A Transient Sight
Richard Skelton
EDITION
A5 Softcover
Tintoretto Gesso cover
Perfect-bound
60ppLimited edition of 100
Signed & numberedOptional music download card
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DESCRIPTION
2025 marks the 20th anniversary of Sustain-Release, the private press label through which Richard Skelton published a string of hermetic, landscape-oriented albums under a series of pseudonyms between 2005 and 2011.
A Transient Sight is a photographic retrospective, gathering over fifty images from the Sustain-Release archives, including many previously unseen works — layerings of medium format film scans, peel-apart polaroids and digital images that conjure the landscapes of the West Pennine Moors in Northern England.
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The book is accompanied by an optional music download card that grants rare access to all the recordings published via Sustain-Release between 2005 and 2011, as well as those released through the Aeolian Editions Archival Series between 2007 and 2018.
It also includes an exclusive 28-minute recording, entitled Source, — newly distilled from field recordings of bowed guitar made near the confluence of the River Yarrow and Green Withins Brook in 2007.
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Taken together, both book & music provide the most complete account to date of Skelton's work during the Sustain-Release years.