The lines have been blurred everywhere in music, so why not in what goes by the name of field recordings? What once was solely the concept of actually going outside and recording sounds you hear and then (but not necessarily) combining them with music itself, has become something a bit different.
These days it includes recording on tour, in hotel rooms, Airbnbs, and small studios, often across multiple countries. It could be because of the spur-of-the-moment, when a song idea pops up, or getting a certain feeling from the location you find yourself in. Or, it could be all of those.
It seems that singer songwriter (another term that is gathering new meanings along the way) Melanie Radford had all of those things in…