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Archipelago Vol. 6

by Henry & Fleetwood

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    Volumes 5 and 6 of the Archipelago EPs, featuring Circles Meets Dot (aka Jo Mango and Wesley Chung) and Henry & Fleetwood (Martin John Henry - De Ros and Gillian Fleetwood - State Broadcasters).

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about

Despite moving in the same musical circles, it took a tour around the continent for cult indie star, Martin John Henry to want to collaborate with the acclaimed Scottish harpist and songwriter Gillian Fleetwood. The pair met after Henry (De Rosa) was invited to open for open for acclaimed Danish songwriter, Agnes Obel, with whom Fleetwood (The Duplets, State Broadcasters) was playing.

During this tour they performed live together for the first time, playing a version of Elliott Smith's Between the Bars with Obel at the spectacular Cirque Royal in Brussels.

Bonding over a shared love for the music of Hamish Imlach, Michael Marra and The Blue Nile, Fleetwood joined Henry on stage in cities across Europe, an experience that left the pair vowing to make new music together on their return to Scotland.

Following a residency on the remote West Highland Peninsula of Morvern, the pair recorded their debut EP, the lush, arboreal 'On the Forest Floor' (Olive Grove) - in 2015.

Returning to their other projects for a time Henry and Fleetwood once again entered the studio in 2019 to record a second EP, this time weaving in deeper connections to Scottish traditional song. Martin and Gillian have always seen their different backgrounds and approaches as being a strength to draw on, and this new EP explores these differences more boldy than before. Martin’s calibre as a songwriter of skill and nuance and Gillian’s upbringing in traditional Highland music are creatively and sensitively merged on Archipelago Vol. 6. Produced by Andy Miller (Mogwai, Songs:Ohia, Life Without Buildings), this latest collaboration finds Henry and Fleetwood's imagined landscapes populated by lost voices of a poetic Scotland-past. From the doomed Bessie Bell and Mary Gray to the Ama divers of Japan, Henry and Fleetwood continue their journey to an imagined, infinite place with the forgotten stories of Scotland as their point of departure.

credits

released March 20, 2020

© 2020 Olive Grove Records
ⓟ 2020 Henry & Fleetwood


Artwork by Kris Ferguson.

Recorded and mixed by Andy Miller at Gargleblast Studio, Hamilton, Scotland.


Mastered by Jonathan Huxtable at Smallfish Recordings.
smallfishrecordings.co.uk



Gillian Fleetwood - Voice, harp, piano, keys, percussion.
Martin John Henry - Voice, guitar, tenor guitar, bass, programming, percussion.



Words - Henry (1 & 5), Traditional (2 & 4) and Henry & Fleetwood (3)
Music – Henry & Fleetwood


Martin and Gillian want to say many thanks to Lloyd, Morven, Joy, Francis, Andy, Shaun, Cammy, Pete, Kaitlyn and Suz.

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Henry and Fleetwood is the musical collaboration of Martin John Henry (De Rosa) and Gillian Fleetwood (State Broadcasters).

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