Provided to YouTube by Drag City Inc. Johnny O'the Brine · Alasdair Roberts · Amble Skuse · David McGuinness What News ℗ 2018 Drag City Inc. Released o. .

by Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness. Pedro Only just finished listening to this for the first time but it's absolutely stellar! David's instrumentals are wonderful, Alasdair's voice is an absolute delight and Amble's use of electronics is incredibly judicious, effective, and adds a whole new dimension to these songs. Gorgeous stuff, really. Johnny O'The Brine 06:37. 3. Young Johnstone 06:18.

Artwork – Amy Whiten. Electronics – Amble Skuse. Recorded By – Neil McDermott. Voice, Electric Guitar – Alasdair Roberts. Recorded at the University of Glasgow and Victoria Road. Mixed at Ferguson's Folly, Edinburgh. Mastered at SJS Mastering, Glasgow.

COMPOSER: Alasdair Roberts. PERFORMER: Amble Skuse David McGuinness. More from this artist.

Young Johnstone" Track Info. What News Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness. 1. The Dun Broon Bride. 2. Johnny O'the Brine. 5. The Fair Flower of Northumberland.

ballads within a minimalist context that is both powerful and immediate. Although the project originated from an idea of Roberts' and was released by his longtime label Drag City, this is undeniably the union of three peers combining distinctive but complementary disciplines. Building slowly but with great drama, Roberts and McGuinness turn in a masterful rendition of the hunting tragedy "Johnny O' the Brine," while Skuse paints the backdrop with bizarrely manipulated crowd murmurs.

Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse, David McGuinness.

A gentle propositio. mble Skuse, David McGuinness and Alasdair Roberts in 2017. Photograph: Alex Woodward. To work well in folk music, you have to be an industrious soul, and there are few more industrious in the field than Alasdair Roberts. The Scot, who grew up around traditional song in a hamlet near Stirling, has been yomping without pause for more than 20 years, releasing more than 15 albums since he was a teenager. A collaboration with early music scholar David McGuinness and electronic sonologist Amble Skuse, What News is Roberts’ fourth album of entirely traditional material. It is a gentler proposition than that collaboration sounds on paper, the main instruments being a 19th-century piano and a fragile 1920s dulcitone (a keyboard instrument in which tuning forks on the inside are rung by gently pressed keys).

Drag City US. Alasdair Roberts/Amble Skuse/David McGUINNESS. The Dun Broon Bride" (5:35). "Johnny O' The Brine" (6:27). "Young Johnstone" (6:17).