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Language For Stone

by Matt Howden & Keith Howden

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1.
Matt Howden / Keith Howden - Hidden Anthems 02:23
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Matt Howden / Keith Howden - A Language For Stones 04:06
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3.
Matt Howden / Keith Howden - Innate Symphonies Of Land 09:01
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Matt Howden / Keith Howden - Before Speech 03:28
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Matt Howden / Keith Howden - Eolith 03:58
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6.
Matt Howden / Keith Howden - The Music Of Stone 03:38
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Matt Howden / Keith Howden - Wodwo 05:03
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Matt Howden / Keith Howden - Stone 02:53
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Matt Howden / Keith Howden - Peter's Pebbles 01:24
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about

"Language For Stone" [AR R6] is the third collaboration between English composer Matt Howden and his father the poet Keith Howden. Invited by Archaeological Records to inaugurate a series of works aimed at researching the potential of the sound of musical stones, the two artists followed in the footsteps of the eccentric eighteenth-century gentleman Peter Crosthwaite who, inspired by his travels in China, had managed to locate an outcrop of musical stones in the Lake District (Cumbria, UK) and to build the first European lithophone of modern times. Matt Howden retraced the course of the River Greta like Crosthwaite until he found the singing stones, and after sampling their voices he composed nine songs for the verses that Keith Howden composed in honor of Mount Skiddaw.
The result is a timeless record, which starting from a folk and neo-classical matrix, from the dialogue between stone and violin and from the stories of some extraordinary men and their explorations, stimulates reasoning around the impossible music archaeology.

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released August 8, 2025

TITLE : "Language For Stone"
ARTISTS : Matt Howden / Keith Howden
MUSIC : Matt Howden
WORDS : Keith Howden

PRODUCTION : Redroom Studio (Sheffield)
MASTERING : Michael Lawrence

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