JULY MOON is the second studio album from Scottish singer-songwriter Alistair Ogilvy- a strong collection of self-penned material, this time released on his own label.
Alistair recorded this album at the famous CHEM19 studios determined to push some genre boundaries while focusing on varying themes of love and loss, poetry, and nostalgia. Although the album was written during a warm happy summer, there’s a tinge of underlying darkness and melancholy.
Listen to Alistair’s latest single The Clasping Sea.
Along with his core band members -Kieran Heather (Washington Irving) and Kristan Harvey (Blazin’ Fiddles) – here, he brought together a stellar cast of collaborators. Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) produced the album and left impressive fingerprints in the process, creating some unique sounds, textures and rhythms (he playsdrums).
The renowned film composer Craig Armstrong (Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet) left his considerable mark too with a quite beautiful string arrangement on DEEP BLUE SEA which also features cello and viola from members of the Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Guest vocals came from three very special people: Karen Matheson of Scottish super group Capercaillie, successful singer/song-writer Jerry Burns and Siobhan Wilson, a rising star in her own right.
Alistair cites artists such as Kate Bush, Nick Drake and Fairport Convention among those who have inspired him. After the release of his debut album on the Greentrax label in 2012, he gained standing within the folk scene, and with this new release he is sure to gain new admirers and open up many different and exciting opportunities.
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