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Various Artists - Ardeer Peninsula Various Artists
Ardeer Peninsula is a tape of guitar music. 15 tracks. 15 artists.
The peninsula is quiet. Dunes stretch with the wind. Salt marshes smell of wet earth and old water. Birds move across the sky. Bees hover. Sometimes the place is empty. Sometimes all you hear is the hum of insects and the scrape of sand underfoot.
Walking along paths that are overgrown. Like standing still and noticing small things: a blade of grass, a rustle of leaves, a crow far away. Some tracks are sharp, some soft, some linger. Each one finds a piece of the place. Each one notices something slightly different.
Ardeer used to be something else. Factories and explosives. Now it is alive in quiet ways. The ground hums with plants, insects, wind. You can feel it if you pay attention. The tape tries to catch that feeling. Not exactly, not literally, but enough to know it is there.
It is music to walk with. To sit with. To think of a place that exists and changes, that is remembered and present.
Tape profits will go to families in Palestine.
Track List
2. A Happy Return - Untidy Miracles (Ft. Agnes)
3. Amateur Hour - Forgetting My Own Name
4. Craggyland - Dog Eat Dog
5. Memotone - The Egg Toss
6. Sonotanotanpenz - You and Me
7. Jansci - Loch Doon, Passing Place
8. Cuckoo Spit - Slumber
9. Han - Hi, is this still available
10. Iceblink - Pews
11. Juho Toivonen - Maailman Eläimet Äänessä
12. People Skills - The Smoking Cigarette
13. Thoughtless Gift - Untitled
14. Jim Strong - Little Flowers
15. William Henry Meung - Digging for Little Specks of Hope
Pickup available at Glasgow
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