Both explorative visitors and resident Liverpudlians have maybe experienced the peacefully beautiful setting of St.James cemetery nearby Anglican Cathedral in Merseyside, where you can easily relax and enjoy the surrounding grandeur of nature and history: Liverpool's first public park was originally a quarry, but its secluded and somewhat cloistered position which could inspire relax, ravishing and daydreaming contemplation was supposedly known by those who named t.James hill Mount Zion. Its maze-like amalgam of arbours, gravestones, Victorian monuments, recesses and tunnels inspired this lovely release by Ashlar, the collaborative project by Wil Bolton and Phil Edwards, who combined field recordings grabbed inside and nearby St.James' Gardens and instrumental brush strokes, which got recorded at Cathedral Chambers. They managed to render a sonic virtual tour in the gardens by highlighting the emotional inferences and even historical memories: the initial "Winding Nature" emphasizes the wind gusts which blow into gardens and seems to recall the windmills at the edge of the quarry by means of billows of acoustic and electric guitar and graceful electronics, but then the enchanted sonic ablutions seem to respectfully crouch on the following "Monuments" by making an ideal connections between gravestones, memorials and more or less illustrious buried people by feeding cogitations whose sacredness got rendered by sunken guitar phrasing. This virtual tour ends on "The Oratory", where quiet synth-bubbles and soothing arpeggios mix sonic inputs up with Neoclassical architecture of the Oratory while descendants of Liver Bird supposedly try to socialize with Tracey Emin's little bronze bird!