Archive Trails
In January 2011, three bold stravaigers – Alasdair Roberts, Aileen Campbell, and Drew Wright – set forth upon a twelve-week commissioning residency in The School of Scottish Studies Archives at The University of Edinburgh.
This site tracks their progress as they listen to tapes, sift through photos, conduct their own fieldwork and begin to develop new performances from their findings.
On tour October 2011!
Oct 13 : Peebles, Eastgate Arts Centre
Oct 14 : Perth Concert Hall
Oct 15 : Cupar Arts Festival
Oct 16 : Edinburgh, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Oct 17 : Aviemore, Old Bridge Inn
Oct 18 : Tobermory, An Tobar
Oct 19 : Rosehall, The Achness Hotel
Oct 23 : London, Cafe OTO
Oct 28 : Glasgow, CCA
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Helmsdale Herring
Another song available to download and this one is very much a direct outcome of the Archive Trails residency; a reworking of Ewan MacColl’s “Shoals Of Herring”.
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Black an white ane ti ither mairriet
I recently posted a virtual e.p Rhythm & Song for free download. The recordings have been kicking about for a while and are not a direct outcome of the Archive Trails residency but they illustrate an element of my practice i.e putting traditional folk tunes into new contexts. In this case Scottish folk meets Berlin dub techno via Jamaican DJ culture. I wonder what Hamish would have made of it?
Simplify Simplify Simplify
“The musician is the document. He is the information itself. The impact of stored information is transmitted not through records or archives, but through the human response to life” Ben Sidran
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Thyme (the revelator)
With my recent move to Glasgow I haven’t been to the archive in a while but research is ongoing in other ways, not least with the recent delivery of a batch of cassettes picked up cheaply from Springthyme Records.
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Wee Nuggets of Wisdom
Since my interest in folk songs progressed from listening to them to singing and performing them myself I have often wrestled with various issues in my mind about why I sing certain songs, should I sing certain songs, is this right or is that wrong, and so on. Sometimes I wonder whether I think a little bit too much about such things. So I am grateful for a wee bit of wisdom learned from another visitor to the archive.
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Ali Roberts Investigates
My fellow archive stravaiger Ali Roberts really picked up the Anon Man baton and ran with it at our second group meeting back on 23rd February.
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false starts, false teeth
This week I revisited recordings I had listened to on my first ever visit to the archive.
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The Amazing Anon Man
As I said the third version of Dowie Dens I was drawn to was a version by Anon Man. What a revelation this mysterious chap proved to be!
