North Ten - CD

Blue Rose Code – North Ten - by THOMAS BLAKE on 8 MARCH, 2013

It is always in the epicentre of your troubles that you find serenity, according to French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and it’s hard to ignore the troubled birth of North Ten, the debut album by Edinburgh’s Ross Wilson, aka Blue Rose Code. A personal history of addiction and bereavement has plagued Wilson, to the extent that you would expect his songs to be cathartic, maybe even bitter. He would be forgiven for dwelling on the past, for pursuing the confessional singer-songwriter path single-mindedly. So it is reassuring to find that this soulful set of folk songs is shot through with an overriding sense of calm.