Alasdair Roberts
Spoils
FormatLPLabelDrag CityGenreFolk & Traditional
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For this latest album Caledonian folk impresario Alasdair Roberts teams up with expected collaborators like Alex Neilson (whose drumming and percussion work has illuminated many a free-folk record over recent years, a few of which Roberts has been involved with) and more unusual contributors such as Niko-Matti Ahti of Fonal's Kiila. Perhaps more than ever, Roberts' music invites comparisons to Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, traveling sufficiently far from the trad songwriting fold to be thought of as 'alt.'. Like Will Oldham, Roberts is a songwriter who clearly has a very firm working knowledge of more traditional strands of the genre he occupies (his lyrics and guitar playing are, as ever, of considerable merit) but there's a free-roaming, ramshackle rawness to the recordings and presentation here that imbues a sense of intimacy and unconditionedness to proceedings. Recommended.
Format
All songs (C)2009 Alasdair Roberts, copyright control.
Recorded at Green Door Studios, Glasgow.
Release notes
All songs (C)2009 Alasdair Roberts, copyright control. Recorded at Green Door Studios, Glasgow. (C)&(P)2009 DRAG CITY P.O. Box 476867 Chicago, Il 60647
| A1 | The Flyting Of Grief & Joy (Eternal Return) | ||
| A2 | You Muses Assist | ||
| A3 | So Bored Was I (Dark Triad) | ||
| A4 | Unyoked Oxen Turn | ||
| B1 | The Book Of Doves | ||
| B2 | Ned Ludd's Rant (For A World Rebarbarised) | ||
| B3 | Hazel Forks | ||
| B4 | Under No Enchantment (But My Own) |
- Gordon Ferries
- Baroque Guitar (A2, A3, B1, B4), Guitar [19th Century] (B2)
- Alasdair Roberts
- Bass Guitar (A2, A3, B4), Dulcimer (B1), Fiddle (A3), Guitar, Hurdy Gurdy (B1), Psaltery (B2), Synthesizer (A2, A4), Voice, Whistle (A2)
- Tom Crossley
- Bass Guitar (A1, A4, B3), Drums (A1, A4, B1, B3), Flute (A1), Piano (A2), Vocals (A2)
- Alex Neilson
- Drums (A2, A3, B2, B4)
- Emily MacLaren
- Engineer, Glockenspiel (A4), Piano (B2), Vocals (B1, B4)
- Sam Smith
- Engineer
- David McGuinness
- Harmonium (B3), Harpsichord (A1, B4)
- JJ Golden
- Lacquer Cut By
- Alison McGillivray
- Viol (A1, B2, B4)
- Gareth Eggie
- Vocals (A4)
- Niko-Matti Ahti
- Vocals
