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An Eilean Spring (Part I)

An Eilean Spring (Part I)

One of our favorite labels of 2015 continues to come on strong in 2016.  The difference this year is that the label has made a conscious effort to expand its sound palette.  Spring’s releases begin in the ambient vein, but then veer into unexplored territories.  It’s a great surprise to hear such sounds, and a sign of potential longevity.  Those who have followed the work of label owner Mathias…

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Chris Dooks - Accretion Disc [Eilean Rec.]

‘Dr Chris Dooks [b.1971] is a prolific multimedia artist based in both Edinburgh and Ayr in Scotland. Known equally for his lens-based work, music projects and conceptual art, he can be described as an interdisciplinary artist and post-doctoral researcher specialising in practical medical humanities work and philosophical art processes.’

--from press release 

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Occasional links 2015-01-04

The Furrow Collective have added a London date to their spring tour, not yet on their official website: 3 April at the Borderline.

Just before the German leg of that tour gets under way, Alasdair takes a brief detour to Tübingen on 21 January to resume with occasional collaborator Christoph Wagner. Wagner's website translates and paraphrases to:

Folk singers from England, Ireland, Scotland and the US enjoyed great popularity in West Germany's new cultural and political clubs in the seventies. 1974 saw the first 'Tübingen Folk & Liedermacher Festival' which subsequently developed into the largest folk festival in the Federal Republic, attracting thousands of fans. Music journalist Christoph Wagner traces the history of folk music movement in Baden-Württemberg. He will deliver a lecture illustrated with many historical pictures, with musical accompaniment from Alasdair Roberts, the son of Alan Roberts, who was one of the major folk activists in West Germany in the seventies.

The Scotsman reviews Alasdair's New Year's Day performance, with Ross Whyte as well as Chris Dooks:

some brooding folk song with gorgeously twisted and resonant electronic accompaniment from Alasdair Roberts and Ross Whyte; and, between songs, watched tantalising fragments of Chris Dooks’s Tiny Geographies series of films, drenched in the natural imagery, voices and landscape of Deeside.

Reviews of the new album are starting to appear:

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Paul Pledger, Peekaboo

C.R. Sanderson, Ravechild

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Occasional links 2014-12-14

If you're in Edinburgh on 1 January, and up and about for some daytime entertainment, well, some would say you've missed the point of the night before, but apparently you'll be able to see Alasdair, clear-eyed and fresh-voiced, possibly re-establishing his previous collaboration with Chris Dooks, as part of the Scot:Lands programme.

In the latest edition of The Wire, Stewart Smith plays some music to Alasdair and talks to him about it. 

The reliably great Gideon Coe plays a track or two off each and every record Alasdair puts out — just about the only one to do so on UK national radio (though Late Junction get around to it in the end) — and last Wednesday he played Artless One (never mind that he got the song and album title, presumably the producer had a senior moment). It's 1 hour 52 mins in (possibly not available outside the UK).

You can tell it's a slow news week when…

The jackets for the new, self-titled Alasdair Roberts album are in! Pre-order your copy right now! #dragcity #aliroberts

A photo posted by @dragcityrecords on Dec 12, 2014 at 10:17am PST

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a fascinating underwater field recording by chris dooks

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When I set up my large bandcamp archive, I almost forgot that I also produced other artists for various purposes over the years and so this hour long album is a tribute to them and the fun I've had recording them. I hope to add to this album later on in the year. The producers I tend to like, such as Steve Albini and Rick Rubin have a close, dry and intimate approach in their style and so I've tried to adopt that crispness and honesty in the way these artists have been recorded whether it is in the radio pieces of Eleanor, Alan and Pippa - or in the music of Alasdair or Drew, or the Sitholé brothers, I'm really proud of these recordings.

It makes no sense to speak of recordings being "re-released" when they've been continuously available for free online, but Chris Dooks (quoted above), who produced Alasdair's free four-track Ayrtime.org EP, has kind of done just that for two of those four tracks. They're part of a Produced by Chris Dooks compilation. Grab them now if you haven't done so already.

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Just heard of Chris Dooks tonight. Found the Bip Hop compilations, and downloaded volume 3. Will post some of that later. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this calming track and old black and white footage.

Untitled Ghost Show Remix - Music/Edit Chris Dooks