"...a brilliant EP filled with moments of true honesty and vulnerability, not to mention excellent musical arrangements" - The Skinny
Vox Liminis is proud to present ‘Looking at Colours Again': a new EP from the Distant Voices project.
The songs on this EP were written in Vox Sessions in HMP Barlinnie, HMP Inverness, HMP Castle Huntly and HMYOI Polmont during 2018-19. Vox Sessions are short song-writing workshops developed in partnership with groups of people with criminal justice experience. The workshops are planned and facilitated by teams put together by staff in Vox Liminis.
Distant Voices brings together people who have first-hand experience of criminal justice with some of Scotland’s best contemporary songwriters. This EP follows the release of ’Not Known at this Address’[2018] and ‘Oblivion and Beyond’[2019]. The songs included here are just a few of around 300 songs written through creative connections forged within both prisons and community justice settings. Looking at Colours Again continues our exploration and collective insights into ‘coming home’.
Distant Voices is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (under grant reference ES/P002536/1)
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released February 19, 2021
Produced by Louis Abbott
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Paul Savage
Recorded in January, 2020, at Chem19 Studios, Glasgow
REWIND
Written by Sean H and Donna Maciocia
Donna Maciocia: Vocals, Keys, Programming, Acoustic Guitar
Louis Abbott: Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Backing Vocals
Graeme Smillie: Bass
LITTLE FOXES
Written by Missy L J, Co Campbell and Louis Abbott
Louis Abbott: Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Programming, Keyboards
Co Campbell, Missy LJ, Martha Ffion: Backing Vocals
Tom Gibbs: Piano
Graeme Smillie: Bass
EVERYTHING'S SPHERICAL
Written by Matthew and Jo Mango
Jo Mango: Vocals, Guitars, Autoharp, Casio Keyboard, Bowed Glockenspiel, Piano
Louis Abbott: Guitars, Drum
LEAP FROM THE NOISE
Written by Martin and Ross Clark
Ross Clark: Vocals, Guitars, Programming, Handclaps
Louis Abbott: Drums, Percussion, Handclaps
Martin: Handclaps
Bill Fleming: Tenor Saxophone, Handclaps
Martha Ffion: Backing Vocals
Graeme Smillie: Bass, Synth Bass, Handclaps
BARS AND MULTICOLOURED CHAIRS
Written by Alana Moore, Louis Abbott and Phil Crockett Thomas
Martha Ffion: Vocals
Louis Abbott: Drums, Percussion, Guitars, Juno
Graeme Smillie: Bass
Tom Gibbs: Yamaha CP80 Piano
Artwork by Beth Chalmers
Design and layout by Dave Morrow at Box Dog Inc.
Thanks to:
The members of our community of enquiry including the Core Group, Unbound and the Research Advisory Group. The members of SPS staff who have supported and taken part in Vox Sessions. The team at Vox Liminis and Distant Voices: Louis Abbott, Lucy Cathcart Frödén, Jo Collinson Scott, Oliver Escobar, Lisa Howe, Claire McKay, Graeme McKerracher, Fergus McNeill, Rosie Reid, Colleen Souness, Phil Crockett Thomas, Alison Urie. Emma Pollock at Chem 19. And all our friends, partners, colleagues, project participants and freelance artists without whom this project could not exist.
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