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Artist:	EARLY SONGS
Title:	Wind Wound
Label:	PRESERVATION (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRE 012CD

2007 release. The Preservation label presents the debut album from Glasgow's Early Songs. Early Songs is the work of Glaswegian David Scott. David has been playing guitar for nearly 15 years after hearing his first musical inspiration in the lyrical country-blues of fingerpicker Mississippi John Hurt. The second turning point for David's work came after hearing the violin playing of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis. The instrumental trio prompted him to leave singing behind, pick up the fiddle and create emotive instrumental music of his own. Using more instruments as he continued to write, David went on to score music for locally-produced films while forming the songs that would eventually make up Wind Wound. David wrote and recorded in his bedroom with the window open, and it's the open air that's a shining quality of Wind Wound. Disarmingly spare, Wind Wound's pastoral atmosphere is generous in scope and warmth, reflecting David's keenest writing motivations -- patterns and cycles, movement and momentum and recurring feeling -- and displaying them with wide-eyed wonder and joy. His guitar-playing swoons and breaks, aching with drama and tenderness, also going on more light-fingered, breezy trails. The songs were taken to Glasgow engineer Andy Miller, who has worked with Mogwai, Songs: Ohia, Life Without Buildings, and Sons & Daughters, to bring an expansive feel to David's music while preserving its innate intimacy. Limited repress in deluxe packaging with a unique design.

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