A common truth

"Cello darkness, my old friend - Saltland is the solo guise of Canadian cellist and composer Rebecca Foon; perhaps better known for her work with Esmerine and Thee Silver Mt Zion (with whom she parted ways in 2008). A Common Truth is the second Saltland album, this time benefitting from the myriad skills of Warren Ellis of Dirty Three and Bad Seeds fame ... A Common Truth is mountainous and haunting, yet also exhibits a certain vulnerability. With her bow as her chisel, Foon sculpts her deepest ruminations into being and then shows them to us, as if daring us to look away. It's a shame epic is such an overused word".

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"Her second solo release as Saltland, A Common Truth, offers meditations on climate change, unfolding in spellbinding passages that entrance with deeply resonating, emotional dispatches on the realities facing the natural world, healing warmth and cosmic awareness. Built primarily from Foon's ethereal vocals and both acoustic and processed cello, that all manifests across the record nebulously, but there's an unmistakable gravity to it that insures it's all operating in the same realm".

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"The second album as Saltland by Canadian cellist, composer and environmental activist Rebecca Foon is a multi-layered song cycle (five songs and four instrumentals) on the theme of climate change. The frequencies and resonances of Foon's instrument evoke both the movement of ice floes and her own deep emotional responses from optimism to despair. In Foon's hands, the cello (both au naturel and processed through various effects) produces an astonishing range of sounds ... Warren Ellis (Dirty Threes, Nick Cave The Bad Seeds) is the sole guest musician, contributing violin, organ and loops to the four instrumental tracks ... A powerfully compelling and wholly distinctive album which rewards the listener's undivided attention".