View basket “The Jaws of Life” 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 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 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 Nils Frahm Empty Rock And Pop | Erased Tapes | 1LP Released 23rd October 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Empty £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Erased Tapes SKU: ERATP134LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dr John Anutha Zone Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th July 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dr John Anutha Zone £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1696 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Macseal Super Enthusiast Rock And Pop | 6131 Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 1st April 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Macseal Super Enthusiast £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 6131 Records SKU: LP6131120LEC Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 1st April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros: Live In Colorado Rock And Pop | Third Man Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th February 2022 £20.00 - £23.00 Select options Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros: Live In Colorado £20.00 - £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Third Man Records Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th February 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Biffy Clyro Errors in the History of God / Unknown Male 01 – RSD Stores Exclusive Rock And Pop | Warner Records | 10", Single Released 22nd October 2021 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Biffy Clyro Errors in the History of God / Unknown Male 01 – RSD Stores Exclusive £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Records SKU: 0190296548819 Formats: 10", Single Released Date: 22nd October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Asgeir Time Is On My Hands Rock And Pop | One Little Independent | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th October 2022 £25.00 - £26.00 Select options Asgeir Time Is On My Hands £25.00 - £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: One Little Independent Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th October 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Madonna Rebel Heart Tour Rock And Pop | Mercury Studios | 2LP Released 9th September 2022 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Madonna Rebel Heart Tour £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mercury Studios SKU: 4523066 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 9th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) & Cypress Grove with Willie Love Rock And Pop | Bang! | 2LP Released 13th January 2014 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) & Cypress Grove with Willie Love £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bang! 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