Additional track not included on the Beartown release 'Bairds of Gartsherrie'.
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Coatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It has a rich history of industry, particularly iron works, at one time being the world’s largest producer of pig iron. Products made on the Clyde from Coatbridge Iron helped build the industrialised world, and by extension, empire. The history of the town is a patchwork of divides; poverty, greed, industry, technology, heritage.
Sometimes known as the Iron Burgh, Coatbridge went from a single house on a fork in the road, to vital centre of the industrial revolution, to struggling post-industrial town in less than 150 years. It is also my family’s hometown.
Bairds of Gartsherrie is a piece in two parts: reflections on the weight of the town’s history as well as personal histories within that narrative. They consider the global impact that Coatbridge has made, whilst remaining largely unknown to those out-with the central belt of Scotland.
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This is very pure. I think a structure is slowly forming. It came forward at me, like the slowest most determined tide. Then there were holes in my speakers which the material flowed through. It pooled around me: feet, thigh, waist deep, still coming. leafcutterfan
The first release on Cacophonous Revival, from experimentalist Samuel Goff, uses avant-garde approaches to get at personal narratives. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 4, 2020
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There's an echo in the hall, but how can this be? There isn't any hall, there isn't even a building. There is only a dim space, and this sound - a strange winnowing grey sound that becomes softer and dimmer with every second of closer scrutiny. Standing outside, where the pines used to be, we followed the sound, like a great slithering reptile retreating further and further into the warm shroud of night. Tom Rimshot