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Living For The Moment

by Barrett's Dottled Beauty

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Debut album from Gayle Brogan and Alan Davidson (KItchen Cynics)

Review from The Sound Projector
Barrett’s Dottled Beauty is the Scots duo of Gayle Brogan and Alan Davidson. We noted them in 2017 with their Owls In Their Eyes album. Living For The Moment (LES ENFANTS DU PARADIDDLE ENF 109) takes their winning formula and extends it even further, in terms of duration, psychedelic excess, and hypnotic dream-like droneworthiness. On ‘Featherless Fools’, there’s 32 minutes of cosmic meandering to savour, where echoed instruments and fey vocalising are stewed in an endless brew of protean drone. Takes us back to the glory days of 2004 when this sort of thing was abundant on the Digitalis and Foxglove labels in America, but I like to think Gayle and Alan have their own unique folk-inflected slant on the genre. Anyone can make Cosmic Courier comparisons, but buried deep within the amorphous non-structure of ‘Featherless Fools’ nebulous clouds, I bet we can hear traditional Celtic pentatonic scales just waiting to resolve themselves. The second cut, ‘Sunlight Bathed & Golden Glare’ is more easy to accommodate on one side of an LP and is less “out there” than the main track; more easily identifiable guitar playing and vocals, instead of heavily treated alien sounds. It’s also as much a studio concoction as it is a performance; overdubs, backwards tapes, edits, layers. The music is drenched in light; it more than delivers on the promise of its title. Lovely collage cover for the CDR by Alan, as ever. When they do limited vinyl runs (100 copies) of their records, Alan prepares each single collage cover by hand; every release sold is an individual artwork.

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released March 7, 2016

Davidson / Brogan. Featherless Fools features the John Clare poem the Crow.

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Pefkin Sheffield, UK

Pefkin is the alter ego of Gayle Brogan, creator of slowly-unfolding, ritualistic hymnals that draw heavily on the landscape and natural world.
She is also a member of Burd Ellen, Greenshank and Meadowsilver.

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