Hamilton Mausoleum Suite Francis Macdonald SKU: TRLP18001 Barcode: 5053760033998 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Classical Label: Creative Scotland Released Date: 26th January 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Recorded with the support of Creative Scotland, ‘Hamilton Mausoleum Suite’ is an album of original chamber music (string quartet & harp) composed, arranged and produced by Scottish, BAFTA-nominated composer/songwriter and Teenage Fanclub drummer Francis Macdonald. Released 26th January 2018 via TR7/Shoeshine Records, the album features soloists from the Scottish Festival Orchestra and will be available on CD, download, stream and limited edition heavyweight vinyl. The ‘Hamilton Mausoleum Suite’ music was inspired by – and the album was recorded in – the historic Hamilton Mausoleum that stands on the edge of Strathclyde Park in Lanarkshire, a few miles from the city of Glasgow. The Mausoleum has one of the longest echoes of any man-made building in the world and was constructed in the 1850s for Alexander The 10th Duke of Hamilton. For a time, the duke’s remains were interred in an Egyptian sarcophagus on a plinth within the building. The mausoleum, 37 metres tall, now stands empty. Francis went to secondary school nearby and remembers a family visit to the building when he was a young boy. On trips south from Glasgow via the M74 the Mausoleum is a familiar landmark. A couple of year ago he got the idea to record in the building, celebrating its unique reverberant qualities. Museum officer Linda Barrett was encouraging so Francis set to work composing and planning. The album was recorded in one day. Francis is currently the drummer with Teenage Fanclub and has recently toured across the world to promote the band’s most recent album ‘Here’. A member of BMX Bandits for many years, in 1996, he set up Glasgow indie label Shoeshine Records and country/folk label Spit & Polish in 2000. An accomplished composer and songwriter, his songs and music have appeared in various films and TV projects including having his vocals sampled for Looper’s ‘Mondo ‘77’’ track which featured on the soundtrack to Hollywood blockbuster film ‘Vanilla Sky’ (2001) which starred Tom Cruise. In 2013, he was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award for his soundtrack to short film ‘The Lost Purse’. His debut neo-classical album ‘Music for String Quartet, Piano and Celeste’, released in 2015, was described as “Sublime” by Classic FM and “Nice” by Jarvis Cocker on BBC 6Music. The following year, he contributed an arrangement to the No 1 Classical album ‘The Lost Songs of St Kilda’ which was performed by the Scottish Festival Orchestra. This led to Francis approaching their fixer, cellist John Davidson, to put together an ensemble for the mausoleum project. Along with the ‘Hamilton Mausoleum Suite’ project, Francis recently collaborated with London-based artist Harry Pye for a collection of ‘art pop’ songs and spoken word pieces for the album ‘Bonjour’ (“Odd but good”) 4 stars, Mojo magazine. He has worked with a range of artists in a rich and varied career including Alex Chilton, Dan Penn, The Pastels, Kevin Ayers, Kate Rusby, Edwyn Collins, Ian McCulloch, BMX Bandits, Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Cairn String Quartet and Max Richter. The musicians that appear on ‘Hamilton Mausoleum Suite’ are: Violin I – Justine Watts Violin II – Stewart Webster Viola – Emma Peebles Cello – John Davidson Harp – Sharron Griffiths Artist Francis Macdonald Genre Classical Label Creative Scotland Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Sarcophagus (Quartet & Harp) 2. Whispering Walls (Quartet & Harp) 3. 11th November, 2016 (String Quartet) 4. Folia (Solo Harp) 5. Half Past Midnight (Quartet & Harp) 6. Cantata For No Voices (Harp, Cello & Viola) 7. The 10th Duke (String Quartet) 8. Beam (Quartet & Harp) 9. One Foot Then Another (String Quartet) 10. Stone Lions Lullaby (Harp & Violin) 11. 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