Bastard Mountain - Meadow Ghosts by Song, by Toad published on 2014-03-04T19:12:19Z Bastard Mountain are: Pete Harvey & Neil Pennycook from Meursault, Jill O’Sullivan from Sparrow & the Workshop, Rob St. John from eagleowl & Meursault, Rory Sutherland from Broken Records & Reuben Taylor from James Yorkston & the Athletes. Farewell, Bastard Mountain was recorded in October 2012. Jill, Neil and Rob each brought three songs, one to sing themselves, and one each for the other two vocalists to sing. Over the course of a week the group wrote and recorded music to go with these new versions, the result of which is Farewell, Bastard Mountain. It's a record full of drones and textures, but not as dark and oppressive as that might lead you to imagine. Instead, the semi-improvised nature, live recording and playfulness of the album gives the record a real lightness and sense of unity, to the extent that the vinyl has been pressed without any track breaks at all, as it all just fits seamlessly together as a single piece of work. This approach to collaborative music was inspired by the Cold Seeds album we did several years ago with Animal Magic Tricks, King Creosote and Meursault. That album was more ad-hoc, there was no real plan for how it was going to happen, the music was almost entirely improvised and it all sort of fell together by happy accident. This time around we wanted to reproduce that level of experimentation and excitement, but once the musicians got together it turned into something more like a conventional band. They may not have had much time, but they still rehearsed everything a little and then recorded the bulk of each song live, playing off each other to mitigate the uncertainty of trying to record a song they’d only learned a couple of hours ago. The results are absolutely beautiful, with new takes on older songs as well as new and previously unheard tunes by all three main songwriters, as well as a first ever officially released song by Rory Sutherland which we all liked so much we’re pushing him to write a solo record as soon as possible. Genre drone folk Comment by Piotr Wojtowicz Very nice ! 2016-11-26T08:43:50Z Comment by Jim_Newell Sweet tune, beautifully delivered! 2014-08-09T15:43:35Z Comment by Vasoula Tsiminaki mindblowing !! 2014-06-09T19:36:08Z Comment by Airtime UK This is beautiful...... 2014-05-14T09:16:43Z Comment by __Maja__Ulva These guys combined were destined to make great stuff <3 2014-05-13T12:07:20Z Comment by Debs McCoy enjoyed this - am gonna listen again late tonight...reckon would be fitting to a late hour ;) 2014-05-08T09:04:54Z Comment by Marie-Claire Berreen & HH Love this 2014-04-27T10:53:16Z Comment by alisoncotton absolutely adore this song....so beautiful! x 2014-04-26T21:23:12Z Comment by Buonesiepi & lepri !!! 2014-04-25T09:29:09Z Comment by Lola Demo Awesome, beautiful track! 2014-04-25T08:24:29Z Comment by smallfishrecordings I love the vocal production here. Perfect. 2014-04-17T11:14:46Z Comment by Malacheye Now this is what a supergroup should sound like! Amazing. 2014-04-16T12:05:01Z Comment by Jay Arana excellent restraint here, great mood piece! 2014-04-15T20:52:56Z