View basket “Curtis” has been added to your basket. Esker Bill MacKay SKU: DC676 Barcode: 0781484067610 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City Released Date: 5th May 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Bill MacKay is a musician and a musician’s friend – a genial guitarist / composer / improviser based in Chicago who has energized the experimental folk, rock and avant scenes around town with his polyglot approach to the guitar, combining the folk of Appalachia, the blues and gospel with rock, jazz, Western country and an array of eastern modes. Over the past decade-plus, he has recorded records for Tompkins Square, Whistler, Relay, and ears&ears, both as a solo artist and with his band Darts & Arrows, while performing and collaborating with a number of other artists. Bill’s most recent album was ‘Sunrise’, in which he examined the songs of John Hulbert, whose 1972 private press classic ‘Opus III’ reflected a uniquely mid-Western hybridization of finger style and city blues playing. MacKay’s interest in this tactic – essentially, a personal blending of roots elements – has evidenced itself throughout his discography. On ‘Esker’, his third solo work, Bill takes it further with an album of all-original material performed entirely in consort with himself. Playing all the parts with guitars, glass slide, bass, piano and percussion, he deepens his hybrid-genre approach with both contrast and cohesion, creating warm, melodic narratives that draw on folk, psych and experimental rock modes. Side one themes range from the Moorish air, ‘Aster’, to early American strains and pure chunks of folk rock, while side two finds Bill expanding into abstract spaces as he realizes a long held goal: casting the rolling spirit of the landscape in song. The album’s extended closer, ‘Scarlet’s Return’, overlaps liquid slide guitars and gently loping rhythm, slowly building a raga-esque fugue state, cinematic in its progression, with primal airs and complex psychology evoked by every new passage. With cover images from fellow Chicago musician and friend Marc Riordan, the cumulative impact of ‘Esker’ is of peaceful oneness for the active listener. The dynamic singularity with which Bill ties his interests together is the key to his music, an effortless combination of wide ranging elements that evokes a warm and enveloping view of the world around us. Artist Bill MacKay Genre Rock And Pop Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Aster Twilight Candy Clementine Cotton Persona Powder Mill Park Rise The Hollows Wail Scarlet’s Return Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Bill MacKay and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Bill MacKay Locust Land Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 24th May 2024 £22.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill MacKay Locust Land £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC876 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill MacKay Fountain Fire Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 22nd March 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill MacKay Fountain Fire £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC734 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bark Psychosis Hex Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 13th September 2017 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bark Psychosis Hex £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP084 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Band, The And Then There Were Four Rock And Pop | Let Them Eat Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 26th September 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Band, The And Then There Were Four £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl SKU: LETV382LP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 26th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Alvin Lee Band, The Free Fall Blues | Avatar | 1LP Released 4th April 2024 £7.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Alvin Lee Band, The Free Fall £7.00 Genre: Blues Label: Avatar SKU: nn283911 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nancy Elizabeth Dancing Rock And Pop | Leaf | 1LP, Includes CD Released 22nd April 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nancy Elizabeth Dancing £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Leaf SKU: BAY84V Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 22nd April 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jane Birkin Oh! 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