Watermarked in Flame, by MacGillivray

Watermarked in Flame

by MacGillivray

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1.	Murdered Mermaid Song 05:00	buy track
2.	Peggy Gordon 05:45	buy track
3.	Wolf Skinner Song 04:38	buy track
4.	Border Darkness 04:45	buy track
5.	O John Sing Thy Songs to Me 06:04	buy track

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Five-track mini-album, collecting together material from concert recordings, radio and film soundtrack work. Harrowing and hair-raising from the outset, but also intimate and profoundly moving, these live renditions imbue the songs with a visceral intensity sometimes absent from MacGillivray's meticulously-arranged studio albums. Despite the disparity of sources, Watermarked in Flame presents a cohesive overview of MacGillivray the performer, with contributions from Alexis Thompson, Hardeep Deerhe and Henry Olsen (who played on Screamadelica by Primal Scream, trivia fans). It is an album that stands up against anything in MacGillivray's impressive back-catalogue.

"With flowing black robes and strawberry blond hair that falls to her waist she looks like a Thomas Malory heroine, piercing the Tuesday night crowd with a baleful glare and introducing her first song as the tale of a murdered mermaid. She then proceeds to scratch at her electric autoharp and then begins an anguished wail herself. The song seems less a tale of the murder and more field recordings of the event itself. It’s fair to say she has our attention." - Colchester Gazette, 7th March, 2017

credits

released March 20, 2018

MacGillivray: vocals, lapsteel, piano and electric autoharp
Henry Olsen: guitar (track 3)
Alexis Thompson: guitar (track 4)
Hardeep Deerhe: tabla (track 4)

All songs by MacGillivray, except Peggy Gordon (traditional, arranged by MacGillivray) and Wolf Skinner Song (lyrics - MacGillivry, music - MacGillivray/James Young/Henry Olsen).

Murdered Mermaid Song was recorded by Ben Chatwin. Peggy Gordon was recorded live for BBC Radio 3.

Wolf Skinner Song was produced by James Young.

O John Sing Thy Songs for Me was written for the film soundtrack of 'By Our Selves' by Andrew Kotting.

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