Fort Langley-based sound artist David Salisbury returns with Bear Creek, the latest release under his Camp Of Wolves project, and the fifth release on the Castles in Space Lunar Module imprint. Written between 2022 and 2024 across Greater Vancouver, the Cariboo, and the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, the album is a deeply personal exploration of memory, place, and the spectral weight of childhood landscapes. “With Bear Creek, I wanted to give the album a warm, handmade feel — like it was cut from construction paper, coloured with crayons, and glued together like a strange, fragile diorama,” Salisbury says. “There’s a lingering sense of the ‘other’ in these tracks, something haunted but still very much alive.” Rooted in electronic music but infused with an organic, woodsy, summer-camp-inspired palette, the album walks a fine emotional line — weaving between complex, often conflicting feelings. The result is a sound both nostalgic and uncanny, inviting listeners into a liminal space where nature and memory blur. Salisbury, known for using Camp Of Wolves to explore stories within the psychogeography of untamed wilderness, forgotten towns, and remote outposts, describes Bear Creek as a return to a place that never really left him: “Bear Creek wasn’t on any map, but it knew how to whisper — low and steady. A tangle of humanity grown over the bones of a mostly forgotten wild. I swore I’d never come back. Yet here I am, driving past the gas station that still sells firewood, past the elementary school with peeling paint, past woods that haven’t moved an inch, even though everything else has. The air is heavier here, like the town’s been rebuilt just enough to make me question if I ever really left.” Through textured sound design and storytelling, Bear Creek becomes more than an album — it’s a haunted memoryscape, alive with flickering streetlights, half-buried secrets, and the breath of something ancient in the trees. “I think the creek remembers me,” Salisbury says. “I think it never stopped watching.”

An evocative piece of modern ambient music by Camp Of Wolves on Castles In Space Records' Lunar Module imprint. This is for fans of William Tyler's more ambient excursions, Brian Eno, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Hannah Peel and more.

By Adam