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SIDRA 007LP
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Tom James Scott's two previous CD releases for Bo'Weavil Recordings both featured acoustic guitar as primary voice. His first LP -- while maintaining similar melodic sensibilities and a feeling of hushed expanse -- sees piano become the main focus, with the title "Drape" (defined in literature documenting past and present dialect native to what is now Cumbria, as, "to speak slowly") determining pace and durations across the four pieces presented. Strings of single notes become humming, shadowy resonances within the body of the instrument, echoing into frequent pause and fragmentation. Initially conceived on guitar and voice, photograph and title were also principal catalysts in the formation of the final work. The image of an older relative as a child holds a likeness through subsequent generations. A now largely-extinct colloquial definition of a word still in common use marks change through evolution and loss. Both convey a past unknown at first-hand, yet both are reflected in the present, fragmented and imagined.
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WEAVIL 032CD
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This is the second full-length release for UK-based Tom James Scott for Bo'Weavil. School And Rivers is a selection of five new slices of minimal guitar compositions. These are varied pieces that were written immediately after the release of Red Deer (WEAVIL 026CD), to those that came about just before recording began in March of 2008. David Aird's tuba playing on the title track and "Seabird" provides a necessary weight, pulling at the high notes of the guitar that hang in mid-air, with droning, near-dissonant tones in the more fluid sections. Tom has an interest in melodies that drift in and out of focus, moving between abstract and more concrete forms, leaving pockets of silence where the listener can escape. The pieces on this recording remain quite static, following slight variations through time. Not to be mistaken as coming from the tradition of Fahey et al., Tom's cues are from a far more diverse palette, modern composition, piano contemplations, ethnic/folk recordings and the wealth of improvisation are but a few.
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WEAVIL 026CD
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Debut solo recording by Tom James Scott, a young classically-trained guitarist, and a mainstay of the improvising collective, CYRK. Tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music (solo and choral), composition, and field recording, to name but a few. These 5 slices of acoustic alchemy are well-formed compositions for acoustic guitar, where the wealth of folk guitar has been distilled through a minimalist mindset to create some of the most beautiful elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative contemplation. Hard card mini-gatefold sleeve limited to 500 copies.
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