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Emily Scott 019
abcdefg..etc...
“abcdefg…etc…” is just a collection of some letters, and some musical notes, in various combinations...
Rooted in Scotland’s thriving folk/anti-folk scene, this second album from double-bassist and singer/songwriter Emily Scott combines simply elements of folk, back-porch skiffle and old-time music hall, with her trademark quirky word-play and multi-syllabic rhymes.
“abcdefg…etc…” is a glass up to the wall or a tiny fishing-net, gathering insignificant details and just observing them; a chiming clock, an old photograph, a jar of buttons, the sound of the needle on record that’s ended, the morning sun moving across a bed, nothing major, just the really good stuff.
Inspired in part by something Tom Waits once said in an interview, that a good record should be made like a hand-made doll with tinsel for hair, Emily Scott’s DIY ethic plays a major part of the recording process (playing almost everything herself and co-producing), and this extends to the labour of love that is her hand-made packaging, each copy individually cut, folded and rubber-stamped.
Recorded at the fireside of ex-Incredible String Band member Malcolm Le Maistre (and featuring him on banjo), “abcdefg…etc…” is a simply and lovingly crafted work, as if Joni Mitchell meets Noel Coward and they spend the afternoon baking jam tarts…
Emily Scott – abcdefg...etc... Tracklistings
- downriver
- radiator
- all that glitters
- moving on
- eyelet
- maybe
- don´t you tease me
- pageant queen
- lazy falls
- duck out of water
- static
- solitaire
Found 018
Fidelities EP
The Fidelities EP will be available as two formats: limited edition 12” vinyl and CD. Each format comes with exclusive tracks. The EP reads more like a mini-album with a total of 8 tracks and is a joint release between Fence Records and Aufgeladen und Bereit.
It’s 2009 and FOUND have returned with an extended player full of renewed energy and pluck. With their new record ‘The Fidelities EP“ FOUND have traded in the campfire electronica sound of their previous two albums and forged a tougher din, full of clenched drums, dusty synths, strident electric guitar and boisterous vocals. Their new direction could be a reaction to 2008, a year dogged with bad luck: a year which on two separate occasions saw different band members hospitalised in intensive care with pneumonia – a year in which FOUND ‘misplaced’ some custom musical equipment in Hamburg – and let’s not mention the chipped teeth.
FOUND – THE FIDELITIES EP Tracklistings
A01 Let Fidelity Break |
01 Let Fidelity Break |
Say 016
MULTIVERSE
SAY are making music that touches places a lot of other music doesn't reach. It provides optimism, positive feeling and aims to uplift anyone who listens to it. The songs are filled up to the brim with love, life and encouragement and feels like this is something that is urgently needed during these times of struggle on the planet and within a lot of human beings.
Their second album 'MULTIVERSE' has smashed all previous boundaries and is their greatest and most consistent album to date. It is an album imprinted with raw energy, self-determination and song mastery- almost a rarity in modern times and something to be listened to with fresh ears.
It takes you on a journey through self-discovery, love, creation, healing and magic and leaves the most wonderful tones in your ears!
Future Pilot AKA / Concerto Caledonia 014
A Future Pilot | Devil Town
AA Concerto Caledonia | Walking the Cow
AAA Concerto Caledonia | Boredom
(Sushil K Dade/James Kirk/Kim Fowley/Francis MacDonald)
I first heard Duglas T Stewart sing this song at a BMX Bandits souncheck circa 1992 and was intrigued...the
haunting melody stuck in my head and in a parallel universe decided to create a tape loop using some rehearsal drum beats (performed by Francis MacDonald -Teenage FC/BMX Bandits) on my 1/4 inch machine and marry them with the melody. I soon found myself in a vocal booth (2 metres square and with nowhere to escape!) recording with American 'nut-rocker' Kim Fowley and his exotic dentistry laying down the improv/vocal track on my 4-track circa 1994.The tapes were gathering dust until circa 1996 when my favourite Scottish guitarist, James Kirk (Orange Juice/Memphis), laid down the dub guitar track during one of his regular visits around that time to my home studio for a late night dark rum and coke session. Circe 2005 I got round to hearing the original Daniel Johnston version which blew my mind.Respect is due to soulful vision and artistry of Daniel Johnston and it is with the greatest of respect that I offer the fruits of our sonic experiments which I recently unearthed, by chance finding the original tapes in my garage and mastering a cassette mix straight to transparent red vinyl no chaser.Thank you Duglas for passing on the song in the old fashioned folk tradition and for unknowlingly inspiring this release.Thank you also to master Anurudh Shivkumar Dade for visualing the music through your artwork.And who better to share this split 7" than with Scottish early music punks Concerto Caledonia.
(Sushil K. Dade)
CONCERTO CALEDONIA perform Daniel Johnston`s WALKING THE COW
I first came across Daniel Johnston and Walking the Cow on the Songs in the Key of Z CD, compiled by WFMU's maverick hero Irwin Chusid. The juxtaposition of such a beautiful song and haunting vocal, with the lo-fi production from a dodgy cassette recorder, took my breath away.Concerto Caledonia had a tour coming up, so as a break from all the early music we were dishing up, we played along with Daniel's original recording as part of our set, while the audience looked on bemused. We then recorded our parts in the wonderful acoustic of a stone-vaulted16th century church in the wilds of eastern Scotland - a special song needed a special setting. I was delighted when Daniel's brother Dick Johnston generously gave us permission to release the results, which you can now own on this beautiful red vinyl.
CONCERTO CALEDONIA perform Buzzcocks BOREDOM
When I was growing up in Glasgow, the poster for Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch EP appeared one day, pasted onto a deserted shop window across the road. I'd heard the record on John Peel's radio show, and the combination of simplicity, fun, seriousness and intelligence got me right away. And Buzzcocks seemed to me to be the real thing. The Clash and the Pistols had fashion designers, financial backing and arrogance: Buzzcocks had the local Oxfam shop and their wits, and they didn't mind looking vulnerable. Then years later Private Eye ran a spoof ad, satirising all those opera singers who were making dreadful crossover records: 'Kiri sings the Sex Pistols' it said.
Somehow these two things connected in my head, and the idea came of asking one of Britain's best-loved operatic sopranos, Lisa Milne MBE, to sing the iconic song Boredom from Spiral Scratch. But none of that operatic wobbly nonsense: she had to sing it in her own broad Aberdeenshire accent, a bit like the bastard daughter of Howard Devoto and Andy Stewart. Lisa threw herself at this idea with total conviction and yes, she really does shout 'get yir haund oot o ma troosers' in the last verse. The job of playing the famous Pete Shelley guitar solo went to wooden flute virtuoso Chris Norman, recorded in a kitchen in Montreal one sunny Saturday afternoon. By a strange coincidence, it was at Chris's kitchen table in Baltimore that I wrote the arrangement for Walking the Cow ...
(David McGuinness, Concerto Caledonia)
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Wake the President / The Kingfishers 012
Wake The President | You Can´t Change That Boy
The Kingfishers | Make Me Sad
WAKE THE PRESIDENT – YOU CANT CHANGE THAT BOY
Third 7inch release by Glasgow’s Indie Pop heroes this time in a co – operation with the award - winning student - run label Electric Honey Records.
You Can`t Change That Boy has been Single of The Week at the BBC 2 , just like their previous 7inch “Remember Fun”.
KINGFISHERS – MAKE ME SAD
The Kingfishers’ debut single is a cover version of Vic Godard . A melancholic yet uplifting pop song written by the best writer of his generation. Sam Martin and her band give this all time classic a very special “Postcard” touch!!!
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Found 011
A1 Alsation Gull Scene
A2 He Never Came Back
AA1 Some Fracas Of A Sissy
The three featured songs on the EP are another step into modern pop music. Some Fracas Of A Sissy is taken from the album, while Alsation Gull Scene (A ROCKER!!!) and He Never Came Back are only available on this limited edition (300 copies) grey vinyl release.
