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12" black vinyl with 1 sheet + dlc.
Artwork by Mary Morrison
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Glacis – Borders (Part 1 – 4)
The cover of the Deluxe Edition consists of 8 pages, completely covered in dark gray velvet. The titles are Hot foil stamping in silver in shiny silver. The contents consist of dark gray cardboard. Here you can find the records and a booklet with the complete information for parts 1 - 4. Also the cover includes a page with a text from Euan about the entire “Borders” project.
“Perseverance” (Part 1) is available spring 2024 as a single album
“Innocence” (Part 2) is available autumn 2024 as a single album
“Exuberance” (Part 3) is available spring 2025 as a single album
“Reverence” (Part 4) is available autumn 2025 as a single album
“Borders” (Part 1-4) is available autumn 2025 as a complete deluxe edition
Please register this important information before you place an order:
You will receive each single album digitally when the individual parts are published.
The preorder for these DELUXE EDITION starts today (march 1st) with Part 1, but will send not before Part 4 is released!
If you are interested or have any questions, (Shipping, bundles...) please contact me directly!
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Includes unlimited streaming of Glacis - Perseverance
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edition of 30
Purchasable with gift card
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Glacis – Borders (Part 1 – 4 plus an additional lathe cut 12" vinyl record with outtakes)
The cover of the Deluxe Edition consists of 8 pages, completely covered in dark gray velvet. The titles are Hot foil stamping in silver in shiny silver. The contents consist of dark gray cardboard. Here you can find the integrated records and a booklet with the complete information for parts 1 - 4 and the additional lc record. Also the cover includes a page with a text from Euan about the entire “Borders” project.
“Perseverance” (Part 1) is available spring 2024 as a single album
“Innocence” (Part 2) is available autumn 2024 as a single album
“Exuberance” (Part 3) is available spring 2025 as a single album
“Reverence” (Part 4) is available autumn 2025 as a single album
“Borders” (Part 1-4 + outtakes) is available autumn 2025 as a complete deluxe plus edition
Please register this important information before you place an order:
You will receive each single album digitally when the individual parts are published.
The preorder for these DELUXE PLUS EDITION starts today (march 1st) with Part 1, but will send not before Part 4 is released!
The additional lathe cut 12" vinyl record with outtakes is only as part of the Deluxe Plus edition available.
If you are interested or have any questions, (Shipping, bundles...) please contact me directly!
limited to 25 copies
oscarson 2024 & 2025
Includes unlimited streaming of Glacis - Perseverance
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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In December 2015 I moved with my family to the Scottish Borders. Having lived my entire life in cities this was my first time living in the countryside. It was remote, living in a cottage on a farm up a single track road. Out the front window was an old farmhouse, looking down on these quaint workers' cottages. Out the back window were endless fields along with the sound of silence. And yet the countryside is never silent. We simply cannot hear the incredible noise made by animals and plants that exist all around us.
One of the first things I did when we moved to the Borders was source and purchase an upright piano. I’d not had access to one since I lived at my parents house in Dundee. Overstrung. The only choice. It took time to source one and to ensure that it was capable of being tuned. It was a beautiful creature too. Simple on the outside but when the front was removed the inner detailing was like a snakeskin - something that my piano tuner commented he had never seen before. However, it wouldn’t tune to concert pitch, due to its age. So, while in tune it was half a tone out and, as such, when working with other musicians I had to constantly explain the need to transpose. Still, it was my piano and it was on this piano that I wrote all of the movement one of Borders entitled Perseverance.
The titles come from Yoko Ono. Essentially, they were her way of saying Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Innocence, Exuberance, Reverence, Perseverance. The seasons resonated as a logical way in which to structure a 4 movement work about the Borders. The music itself, is without a doubt also deliberately reflective of each season. However, the record explores much more than this. It’s about history, heritage, identity, and citizenship. As I started writing it Donald Trump became a serious candidate for the White House, Scotland had denied itself independence from the rest of Britain, David Cameron agreed to a vote on the lunacy of Brexit and the idea of what a border was in the ever shifting political landscape became a fascination for me.
credits
released April 5, 2024
All tracks written by Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken, except track 6 written by Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken and Adrian Copeland
Cello on tracks 2 & 6 by Adrian Copeland
Cello on tracks 5 & 8 by Aaron Martin
Cello on track 3 by Peter Hollo
Cello on tracks 4 and 10 by Simon McCorry
Voice on track 9 William Ryan Fritch
Additional instrumentation by Mikael Lind
Produced and mixed by Mikael Lind and Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover art by Mary Morrison
supported by 11 fans who also own “Glacis - Perseverance”
Such a beautiful album. You can almost see and feel the snow-covered expanse, a solitary journey through what starts as the Siberian wilderness and ends up turning inwards to the depths of your own soul. trondheim9
supported by 11 fans who also own “Glacis - Perseverance”
Happy wind that blows us here
Give thanks for land
We understand our place
Insignificance adrift
In the vastness of time and tide.
Each miraculous offer of life
For the land-bound
A uniqueness of place
And form. Always the surprise
Is how little we carry
The world within us.
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