Local Product: Accrual and Miso Mixtape
Picked up a couple of cds from local folk in the past week or so - Accrual ‘Kirkville Blue’ and Miso Mixtape volume one - both were £5 or less and they’re both great - even more reason to support local artists!
Accrual - Kirkville Blue
Accrual are billed as an ‘improvised drone project’ which doesn’t exactly fill me with glee or indeed do them much justice. The two members of the band are Ruaridh Law (Marcia Blaine School for Girls, The Village Orchestra) on the electronics and Alasdair Satchel on guitar. Their sound is ambient and layered as you’d expect but with a lot more variation and melody than I’m used to in this type of music. There are times when some of the fx processing is reminiscent of Law’s Village Orchestra work but overall the cd holds it’s own and I would definitely recommend picking one up. Only £4.75 from unlabel! Accrual also have a cdr coming out on Diesel Combustible soon.
Miso Mix-Tape One
The first in a series of unmixed cds from Glasgow electronic night Miso. Featuring an all-star line up including Marcia Blaine, Christ., Vessel and Magnetophone. The cd is pretty varied starting with bit crushed beats and flowing pads from Vessel. The second track from Efterking is a more glitchy affair that morphs into almost folktronica territory. This is followed by tracks from the Marcias and Christ. which are fairly predictable if you know the artists but top drawer nevertheless. The remainder from Toman, Magnetophone and Blindfold arent really my cup of tea but well executed. You can find more info at the Miso site.
Other local stuff… Greenbank (Benbecula) has a very nice looking new website up and running with some nice tracks for download - Greenbank site.