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Black Bay

by Far Flung Collective

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Three Kisses 04:59
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Left Right 05:50
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Afraid 06:03
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Sgarbh Dubh 01:05
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about

Black Bay was Bright Young Folk's 'Album of the Week' - Feb 2021
(www.brightyoungfolk.com)

Far Flung Collective brings together musicians and traditions from distant corners of the British Isles, with a particular focus on the Scottish Outer Hebrides and South West England. Featuring a core quintet of acclaimed Uist-based musician/composers Anna-Wendy Stevenson (fiddle) and Simon Bradley (viola), young Scottish vocalist Mabel Duncan, and Dorset-based musicians Alex Roberts (voice/guitar) and Dan Somogyi (piano, guitar) – alongside a changing cast of talented young Scottish players – the Collective first emerged in 2016 as the artistic manifestation of a longstanding music education collaboration. Debut album Far Flung Corners launched at a sold out Celtic Connections concert in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in 2017, and was described in Songlines as a ‘beautiful, engaging… gorgeous and delightful release’. The recording was notable for Stevenson’s Suite Uist, a majestic tribute to the Scottish islands which she has made her home. It soon became a BBC Radio nan Gàidheal CD of the week.

Now comes 'Black Bay', Far Flung Collective’s second album, arranged and recorded over the space of a weekend at Black Bay Studio, on Great Bernera, off the west coast of Lewis. The core quintet was this time joined by fantastic young players, Lewis-based accordion player Stephen Drummond and fiddle player Selina Clare Ross. Black Bay contains eight originals, plus a gospel-tinged cover of May Erlewine’s Afraid and a new version of the traditional English Spencer the Rover (made famous by John Martyn). 'Black Bay' is a more diverse, spontaneous affair to its predecessor, but with the Far Flung "sound" very much intact.

An official launch concert planned for spring 2020, cancelled because of Covid19 pandemic, is now tentatively pencilled for spring / summer 2022. A third Far Flung Collective album is due out in April 2022.

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released March 19, 2020

Produced by Dan Somogyi, Alex Roberts and Anna-Wendy Stevenson

Alex Roberts - voice, guitars, lapsteel, percussion, harmonium backing vocals
Dan Somogyi - piano, organ, rhodes, electric bass, double bass, guitar, ukulele, percussion, backing vocals
Anna-Wendy Stevenson - fiddle
Simon Bradley - viola
Mabel Duncan - voice, fiddle, percussion, backing vocals
Selina Clare Ross - fiddle, percussion, backing vocals
Stephen Drummond - accordion

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Pete Fletcher, www.blackbaystudio.com

Copyright Far Flung Music 2020

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Far Flung Collective Poole, UK

Far Flung Collective is a Scottish / English / European band inspired by landscape and cultures within the British Isles. Debut CD, Far Flung Corners (2017), was described in Songlines as 'beguiling, gorgeous and delightful'. Follow up, Black Bay (2020) was Bright Young Folk's 'Album of the Week' (Feb 2021). New album 'To A Sea Cliff' incorporates jazz & rock alongside FFC's trademark folk sound. ... more

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