Fourth album by this "sonic enchantress."

This 12-track collection brings together my love for the mountains, the earth based elements and the technology that enables me to express myself so fully. As our fractured eco-social system seems in dire need of a reset, themes include connection, conscious evolution, loss and belonging. There’s also the glory of rock climbing – the physical power and intimacy with the elements after being disabled for 15 years or so.

The sound palette includes piano, voice, found sounds, a Covid adapted choir, software instruments and a sampled lithophone – like a xylophone but made of slate – real rock music! Covid might take this lass from the mountains, but you can’t take the mountains out the Caro, I just brought them into the studio.

Cooped up like many in 2020, the laptop became my orchestra, the sound weaving my creative sanctuary. It also took discipline to keep showing up and determination to complete “Electric Mountain” with numerous Covid related obstacles. The array of found sounds (eg. jangling oven shelves, a ping pong ball, a giant water bottle drum, climbing gear) stroke the balance between the adventurous and the familiar (you cannot beat an 808 kick at times). I may be a solo artist but “Electric Mountain” is a rich collective endeavour, even in our more recent isolated times.

There’s also re-works of recent commissions including two dance productions, a film soundtrack and a sonic response to Hayling Island. In my signature “one-woman electronic avalanche” style (BBC Introducing), “Electric Mountain” spans from lush ambient works to more stomping triumphant tracks. Then there are some multi-lingual lyrics as Ich suis Europeana!