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There’s a grain silo in Scotland I’ve been reading about for years (thecourier.co.uk, thetimes.com). In the town of Cupar in the parish of Fife, the silo originated as part of a former sugar beet processing factory. That factory, now defunct, would turn 100 this coming year. The silo is of more recent vintage, dating from 1964. In 2025, the silo — the Cupar Grain Silo, as it’s called — launched a series of live recordings, making the most of the venue’s expansive resonance. The second release is a nearly 45-minute live set by the musician Konx-om-Pax. It’s mastered by Russell Haswell, who contributed the first release in this new series. Spacious and rangy, slow-moving yet making occasionally drastic shifts in instrumentation (rich drones, echoing near silence, thick choral singing), it’s something to put on, turn up, and give one’s own room over to.
Here’s footage, from several years back, of what I believe to be musician Scott Gordon performing in the silo:
And here’s some drone footage of the outside of the silo:
I didn’t realise we had sugar beets in the uk 100 years ago.
Yeah, this was apparently the first such factory in Scotland, according to that Courier article I linked to.