Behind the finest and most moving pieces of contemporary-classicalmusic lie deeply personal and poignant stories, and Simon Goff’s newalbum Vale is no exception. The British violinist and composer’s dazzlingexploration of the interface between violin and technology and betweenthe poles of intimacy and grandeur, as rich and deep and wide as thelandscape that lies its heart, named after the Vale of York where Goffgrew up. The album encapsulates not just a landscape but a place in timeand an identity forged through youth and adulthood, all viewed from hiscurrent base in Berlin.

• 1. Vale
• 2. Wooden Islands
• 3. A Process In the Weather of the Heart
• 4. Murmur
• 5. Elowen
• 6. Now
• 7. I Filled My Lungs With the Necessary Air, and Yelled!
• 8. Sleeping Winds