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01. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Crumble
02. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Landfall
03. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Marcasite
04. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Reverse
05. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Dark Light
06. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Geisha
07. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - November
08. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Rosa Morta
09. CRAIG ARMSTRONG/SCOTT FRASER - Terminal
ARTIST
TITLE
Rosa Morta
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
CMAR 001LP CMAR 001LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/8/2017

The first vinyl edition of Craig Armstrong and Scott Fraser's Rosa Morta, released on CD in 2016 (CMAR 001CD). From the outset, Craig Armstrong and Scott Fraser decided their collaboration would be based on an electronic aesthetic: "We intentionally limited ourselves almost entirely to using vintage synthesizers, modern hardware synths and soft synths. The use of electronic bass and piano were the only exception to this rule. As a composer who regularly works with orchestras this was of course liberating and fun. Out of mutual fascination with early synthesizers from a young age this was often the catalyst for the beginning of each track. Each track was composed within one day often without much change thereafter. This gives the tracks an improvised feel. We also gave no limitation to the length of the tracks; they are as long as felt necessary or as short as they demanded. The direct melodic and immediacy of impact was purely the result of each working day and what felt right at the time. Musically we are influenced by electronic music from throughout the decade but only subconsciously after a lifetime of listening and playing. As composers, we have written in several genres and feel all musicians should feel free to express themselves whether in the abstract, tonal, experimental, song improvisation etc." Two tracks were used in the soundtrack to Peter Mullan's 2010 film NEDS, a film about gang culture in the 1970s in Glasgow. Includes download code.