Norfolk based duo Broads team up with Milly Hurst to release Norfolk inspired album
Norfolk based electronic duo Broads team up with Milly Hurst to release Norfolk inspired album. Picture: Kelly Robb - Credit: Kelly Robb
Norfolk based electronic duo Broads have teamed up with songstress Milly Hirst to release an instrumental album based around Norfolk landscapes and culture.
This six-track record, which is supported by Arts Council England, is titled Ollust and will be released on March 6 on CD, 12" vinyl and as a digital download and on iTunes and Spotify.
The first single Happisburgh, which was released on January 31, is built around ideas of a town disappearing into the sea, history being rendered in front of us and future folk tales falling into place - which has an accompanying video filmed and edited by Mark Jennings.
Since Mark Jennings joined James Ferguson as Broads in 2017, they have released 2 albums of mostly electronic song experiments - 2018's Field Theory and 2019's A Small Box Over a Global Goal.
For Ollust (which means Always in the local dialect), Broads teamed up with long-time collaborator Milly Hirst to take another leap into the unknown - an almost-entirely analogue album built around pianos, drones, field recordings and wordless vocals.
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"The tracks take inspiration from Norfolk locations, landscapes and culture. In preparing for the album, we had lots of days out in obscure locations across the county where I made hours of field recordings and Mark took video footage, which he used as a guide for writing his piano parts at home," says James Ferguson.
"The county of Norfolk is rich in history, contradiction and oddity, and the three of us wanted to create a document of all of these things. It's a beautiful, frustrating, exciting, forward/ backward place to live, and after almost a quarter of a century making music here it seemed high time to pay tribute to the environment that has shaped our sound and our approach to art over such a long time."
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With support from Arts Council England, Broads and Milly Hurst will embark on a six-date tour of the locations referenced in the track titles, together with visual artist Liam Roberts, who will manipulate local archive film footage live at each performance.
TOUR DATES:
April 2 - Live at The Octagon Chapel, Norwich
April 3 - Live at Thetford Guildhall
April 4 - Live at Oulton Chapel
April 5 - Live at Strangers' Hall, Norwich (2 sets)
April 10 - Live at St. Mary's Church Rooms, Happisburgh
April 11 - Live at Dereham Memorial Hall
- Ollust is available to pre-order from Broads' Bandcamp page
- Tickets to their shows are available from WeGotTickets.com
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