The Skinny

By Tallah Brash for The Skinny

Szymanski’s classical guitar playing and Perman’s electronics are tenderly matched with field recordings from the Valle de Bravo forests in a beautiful call to action.

Following on from their debut collaborative record in 2022, Music for the Moon and Trees, childhood friends Tommy Perman and Morgan Szymanski, from Scotland and Mexico respectively, return for round two. Trees are once again a focal point as the pair release Songs for the Mist Forest via Blackford Hill (18 Jul), a collection of 11 songs born out of the pair’s soundtrack work on the documentary film El Dragón de los Bosques de Niebla (The Dragon of the Mist Forest). Once again there’s a romantic feel to their music, although this time with an underlying sadness, the record serving as a stark reminder that the forests of Valle de Bravo, Mexico, where Szymanski lives, are under threat – Szymanski’s classical guitar playing and Perman’s electronics are tenderly matched with field recordings from the Valle de Bravo forests in a beautiful call to action.