The Water Margin, by Nick Castell

The Water Margin

by Nick Castell

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Dying For Bad Music I follow Nick since a while and here you can hear he is an ethnomusicologist and brilliant musician with a great sense for melodies and sound. Review on DFBM bit.ly/1ui56qt Favorite track: As I Lay Sleeping.

Lost Tribe Sound This label is doing things right, and this release is an epic representation of just how good this primitive guitar based folk music gets. Has a bit of that lazy guitar vibe of Mick Turner (Dirty Three) that I am addicted to. Highly Recommended! Favorite track: Water Margin.

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1.	As I Lay Sleeping 05:10	buy track
2.	Bulverhythe 01:41	buy track
3.	Quarter Century 08:50	buy track
4.	Bixi 05:02	buy track
5.	The Flying Cloud 02:12	buy track
6.	A Geographic Impossibility 05:36	buy track
7.	Water Margin 09:29	buy track
8.	The Flowery Monk 04:42	buy track
9.	Verily 06:26	buy track
10.	Per Mare, Per Ecclesiam 02:33	buy track
11.	Didn't Ask For Biskra Girls 06:48	buy track
12.	Little Things That Run And Quail 02:19	buy track
13.	Sweet Primroses 04:00	buy track

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"I know people will always assume that I listen to a lot of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Nick Drake etc. I do listen to all of this and I do love it but there is so much more to the world of music I inhabit. Some of my favourite composers take folk motifs to make ‘art music’, composers like Béla Bartók and Osvaldo Golijov. It is perhaps their approach rather than their music that influences me most. I listen to hours of field recordings from all over the world every week as well as ‘classical’ music from Dowland to Poulenc and 20th Century popular music styles.” - Nick Castell

I recently traveled across a large chunk of Europe. While we were in Wales I got in contact with Nick whom I'd hoped to meet up with once I arrived in London, unfortunately everyone I was traveling with got sick. Nevertheless I spent about two weeks between London and Wales listening to two traditional British folk songs performed by Nick Castell repeatedly without interruption. The two songs were "Courting Too Slowly" and "Sweet Lemeny" (Highly recommended free download HERE). Upon listening to Nick Castell's guitar compositions I was immediately taken back to the time when I first discovered Nick Drake, Anne Briggs...etc and how it completely altered my path in life and softened me to folk music.

Nick Castell's music has that exact same effect, to the point that I probably listened to the song "Courting Too Slowly" 30 times one after another while we hiked around Wales eating endless wild blackberries that grew on the side of every road in Llambedrog. After binge listening to those two songs and the rest of his outstanding catalog I decided to ask Nick if he would want to release something on Scissor Tail to which he agreed. I was and still am as equally blown away with this album "The Water Margin" which I then listened to every chance I could throughout the rest of our trip. Nick's music made the perfect soundtrack to my travels and made any menial task of travel enjoyable. I can only assume it will have that same effect on any willing listener.This is a beautiful loner folk album that will stand the test of time, no doubt about it. -Dylan Aycock

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released March 25, 2014

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