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The Eskdalemuir Harmonium

by Chris Dooks & Machinefabriek

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Side A 18:02
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Side B 16:58

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Please click on above buy link, 12" red vinyl, digital download, extra digital EP, photograph essay, 2000-word sleevenotes, full colour heavyweight inner and outer sleeves!!!

This stream on my bandcamp account does not divide the tracks up, nor can you download it here. You must go to the buy link - download only option is very reasonably priced.

The Eskdalemuir Harmonium is a full-length site-specific collaboration between Chris Dooks and Rutger Zuydervelt who is best known by his Machinefabriek moniker. The project is orientated around a landscape home to a vast Tibetan Buddhist temple and megalithic stone circles. The resulting album and supplementary digital package are a fusion of ‘folktronica-concrète’ homages to a dying American harmonium - currently disintegrating in a farmhouse near Lockerbie, Scotland.

The album, made over a twelve month period, includes a five minute radio documentary. In addition, Dooks’ essay and photographs of the year-long process have been stitched into a full colour montage designed by Zuydervelt - who also works as a respected graphic designer. The record itself is lovingly pressed on bright red vinyl.

Much as one visits a sick relative in a care home, The Eskdalemuir Harmonium is a form of ‘sonic palliative care’. It spills into the glitch territory of Stefan Betke’s work as Pole, while at the same time it follows a sonic ethnographic tradition akin to ‘The Radio-Ballad’ (formed by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger). It was constructed via a delicate bricolage process where spoken word, field recordings and music form more than the sum of their parts.

When Dooks composed and began to arrange the pieces on the record, which also forms part of his work at The University of The West of Scotland, he was aware of the dangers of being too close to a project, and needing a sense of social communion on the project, he contacted Rutger who agreed to co-produce the record with Dooks, giving the project a capricious and variable flavour.

The digital download of this album also includes an supplementary EP entitled Non-Linear Responses of Self-Excited Harmoniums composed from additional material from the same sessions.

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released June 29, 2013

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Prolific sound artist and post-doctoral researcher in Edinburgh.

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