John Henry Lambert

John Henry Lambert is an English eccentric living in amongst Dartmoor's hills. His first and, at the time of writing, only album, 2007's "Gone Away," is a deeply atmospheric mood piece, sparse and melancholy. The production features a distinct lack of any percussion or overdubbing of any kind, lending an organic, acoustic feel. While guitar rhythms dominate, use of piano, harmonium and tenor saxophone lend the piece a perhaps unique musical aesthetic. The lyrics are ever naive, ageless by sadness: "Somewhere in the darkness," goes the last song, "between the dusk and the dawn.

. I lost sight of the way." Reminiscent at times of Van Morrison's "Common One," at others Leonard Cohen or David Gilmour, this is timeless, enveloping work as evocative as it is melancholic.