Fountain Fire Bill MacKay SKU: DC734 Barcode: 0781484073413 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City Released Date: 22nd March 2019 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ‘Fountain Fire’ is Bill MacKay’s second solo album on Drag City. The Chicagobased guitarist’s continued sonic journeys in conversation with himself follow a travel-worn map written in his own hand. Bill has followed the trail from familiar confines to unknown places, catalysing a style equally enamored with the traditional and the avant-garde to make his most expansive and forceful music to date. You can hear it in the opening track; as the lava and lakes of ‘Pre-California’ simmer to boiling, Bill assembles a bridge of guitars, layering beams of rumbling acoustic, distorted electric and arcing slide parts. By leaping boldly from fixed points, he makes synergetic discoveries in mid-air. This is the MacKay writing style in its most evolved state thus far, following serpentine paths within the patterns, lunging in and out of tonality with instinctive flair and a stoic sense of inevitability, forging a sonic mosaic that breathes and grows organically as it fills the space of a song. Yet there is far more here than straitlaced sonic captures of picker’s prowess and captivating harmonic motivation. Bill’s pieces are informed by meditation and memory, impressionistic as cinematic miniatures, inspired as much by filmic and literary passions as by sure-playing hands and always rooted with deep soul and steady intention. As the pieces move in and out of focus in enticingly hallucinogenic fashion, Bill throws another element into play: a pair of stark and emotionallycharged vocal numbers that cause the hair to raise on the listener’s neck, etched as they are with a haunting and eerie beauty. Alongside the evershifting flows of instrumental colour running through ‘Fountain Fire’, these moments shine blindingly, like mirages in the desert. The fire in the album title is a continuity in Bill’s life – part of his genealogy, his living history, his astrology, the scorching effect of the overdriven slide in the penultimate ‘Arcadia’. It is also a sigil for the chaos around us. Bill says: “While the record definitely reflects the turbulence and urgency of the times we’re living in, it also takes an autobiographical look back at the upheaval that characterized the nomadic rambles of my formative years. I learned to adapt to this constantly shifting landscape. Grasping the unfamiliar became secondnature, and the impressions made by the unknown rapidly entered my art. The bittersweet sense of fleeting time & place became a hallmark. Now is more of a time than ever to dramatize what matters to us through our art.” Artist Bill MacKay Genre Rock And Pop Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Pre-California Birds of May The Movie House Man & His Panic Welcome Try It On Arcadia Dragon Country Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Bill MacKay and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Bill MacKay Esker Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 5th May 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill MacKay Esker £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC676 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jon Allen Blue Flame Rock And Pop | Monologue Records | 1LP Released 18th May 2018 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jon Allen Blue Flame £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Monologue Records SKU: MONOLGLP8 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yusuf Cat Stevens King of a Land Rock And Pop | BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Booklet Released 16th June 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yusuf Cat Stevens King of a Land £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4050538868876 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Booklet Released Date: 16th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Scouting For Girls The Place We Used To Meet Rock And Pop | Sony | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th October 2023 £22.00 - £25.00 Select options Scouting For Girls The Place We Used To Meet £22.00 - £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th October 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Savoir Adore The Love That Remains Rock And Pop | Nettwerk | 1LP Released 6th January 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Savoir Adore The Love That Remains £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Nettwerk SKU: 310731 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Led Zeppelin I (Super Deluxe Edition Box) Rock And Pop | Atlantic | 3LP, Box Set, Includes Booklet, Includes CD, Includes Download Code Released 30th May 2014 £114.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Led Zeppelin I (Super Deluxe Edition Box) £114.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Atlantic SKU: 8122796439 Formats: 3LP, Box Set, Includes Booklet, Includes CD, Includes Download Code Released Date: 30th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View James Blunt Once Upon A Mind Rock And Pop | Atlantic | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 25th October 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders James Blunt Once Upon A Mind £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Atlantic SKU: 0190295366773 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shins, The Wincing The Night Away Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 23rd March 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shins, The Wincing The Night Away £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP705X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View En Attendant Ana Juillet Rock And Pop | Trouble In Mind | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th January 2020 £18.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations En Attendant Ana Juillet £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Trouble In Mind SKU: TIM151LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th January 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Chain of Flowers Chain of Flowers Rock And Pop | Alter | 1LP Released 14th October 2015 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chain of Flowers Chain of Flowers £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Alter SKU: ALT22 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ane Brun Portrayals Rock And Pop | Balloon Ranger | 1LP Released 24th March 2023 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ane Brun Portrayals £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Balloon Ranger SKU: DEMVA22 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th March 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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