Music For Smalls Lighthouse

From BandCamp:

What makes Music for Smalls Lighthouse so special? The album tells a story whose outlines are visible even without the accompanying text; the field recordings are location-specific, and contribute to an overall mood; the composition is tender, the playing exquisite; and there's little else to which it can be compared.

The album's source material is simple, yet ferocious. In 1800, two men named Thomas, from "the fishing port of Solva in Wales", are sent out to man the Smalls Lighthouse, "a tree-house in the middle of the ocean". But in the rapidly-beating heart of a storm, one of the Thomases slips and dies. After building a coffin for his companion, and lashing him to the lighthouse, the other Thomas begins to have some terribly distressing dreams ...