Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads From Nova Scotia: Vinyl LP Noveliss & Dixon Hill with its heavily echoed treatment
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with its heavily echoed treatment of artist Marie-José Jongerius' voice sounds not unlike something from David Byrne and Brian Eno's classic cut-ups of My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
experimenting with West African guitar grooves on ‘Flutter’
highlighting that the “fully-formed nature of their songwriting
Formed in 1990 (and named after a railway shed) after making a name for themselves in their hometown of York
hook-heavy “Everybody’s Birthday” speaks to the evil absurdity of the present
Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads From Nova Scotia: Vinyl LP Noveliss & Dixon Hill with its heavily echoed treatmentMiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts collaborate with Canadian bassist musical arranger Pete Johnston on a set of traditional songs with Scottish roots collected in Maritime Canada by folklorist Helen Creighton (1899 1989). Recording in Nova Scotia with Pete and a group of Canadian players, Miri and Alasdair sing these far travelled Scots ballads and Gaelic lyrical songs with poignancy yet playfulness, the gravity of exile ever alive in their hearts.