Summerlands Music 
Bohemian Summer : Sumerisle –EP- (UK-SC,2011)***/**+
This one man Scottish band takes the environmental recordings of birdcalls to the musical environment; but his songs are somewhat more on the human plane than that. On the first track, “Blackbird”, a sad melody like a tune of loss has been picked with a blackbird (and a few more birds) in the background. The second track, “When I come looking for you” show what's on his mind really, a simple song and lyrics of missing someone in a not too attractive slightly smoked voice with fitting picking and with a kind of loops of distant female wordless ghostly voice on background lingering with the music during the song. “Boudica” is a sad intermezzo instrumental with a simple song melody on one guitar played by two or three fingers in harmony and with a crow in the background this time, and with some repetitions of the theme. The track after that, which I assume is “Butterflys” is another happier simple melody on one guitar and with a second strummed guitar and with the imitation of owl and howling wolf sounds in the background in a rather danceable and hummable rhythm or melody. Also this is repeated like a tune hanging in the air. The last track (in a different order from the booklet) is an interpretation of the traditional “Barleycorn John” sung in a rather low key with a bit of feedback on the smoked voice and accompanied by picking only. An enjoyable EP without revealing much of a deeper purpose what else is there behind these few tracks, as if it's a fragment cloud of something else, something more perhaps unrevealed.
