View basket “Crash” has been added to your basket. 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 Agnetha Fältskog Wrap Your Arms Around Me Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th July 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Agnetha Fältskog Wrap Your Arms Around Me £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 5744180 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released 21st October 2022 £73.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii £73.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: LMF2-504 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mac DeMarco Another One Rock And Pop | Captured Tracks | 1LP Released 4th August 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mac DeMarco Another One £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Captured Tracks SKU: CT228LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Howler World Of Joy Rock And Pop | Rough Trade | 1LP Released 20th March 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Howler World Of Joy £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rough Trade SKU: RTRADLP740 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th March 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nao And Then Life Was Beautiful Rock And Pop | Sony | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th September 2021 £20.00 - £23.00 Select options Nao And Then Life Was Beautiful £20.00 - £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th September 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Dean Blunt BLACK METAL 2 Rock And Pop | Rough Trade | 1LP Released 22nd October 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dean Blunt BLACK METAL 2 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rough Trade SKU: RT0253LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Abba Voulez Vous 7″ Box set Rock And Pop | UMC | 7", Box Set Released 14th June 2019 £72.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Abba Voulez Vous 7″ Box set £72.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 7730918 Formats: 7", Box Set Released Date: 14th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tom Waits Closing Time Rock And Pop | Anti | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th March 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tom Waits Closing Time £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Anti SKU: 8714092756517 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Hunters and Collectors The Jaws of Life Rock And Pop | Epic | 1LP Released 9th August 2014 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Hunters and Collectors The Jaws of Life £8.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Epic SKU: NN70321 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th August 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Boston Don’t Look Back Rock And Pop | Friday Music | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th July 2015 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Boston Don’t Look Back £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Friday Music SKU: FRMLP3505 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th July 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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