Mike Vass featuring Ali Levack · 2021
Threes
Recorded during the third lockdown, with no access to a good-sounding space.
Recorded Nairn · Ali Levack’s parts Glasgow Gloworm, West Regent Street
The back of the sleeve
- Written and produced
- Mike Vass
- Additional recording
- Ali Levack (whistles, added remotely)
- Mixed
- Mike Vass
- Mastered
- Peter Beckmann, TechnologyWorks
- Artwork
- Anna Colliton
- Released
- 26 March 2021
People
- Written and produced
- Mike Vass
- Additional recording
- Ali Levack (whistles, added remotely)
- Mixed
- Mike Vass
- Mastered
- Peter Beckmann, TechnologyWorks
- Artwork
- Anna Colliton
- Released
- 26 March 2021
The record
Made in Nairn during the third lockdown, Vass pursuing his interest in electronic music without a good room to record in, with whistle parts added remotely by Ali Levack of Project Smok, whose debut album Vass had produced in 2019. Anna Colliton made the artwork and an animated video: a hurricane lamp swinging on a creaking chain, a train crossing a viaduct.
Film
Tracks
- 01Threes5:35
- 02Threes - Edit3:10
Cuttings
A line from each piece. Where the full piece is online, it is linked.
BBC Radio 2 Folk Show
Said on air
“The walking definition of a multi-instrumentalist, also a really creative producer and a restless soul.”
Northern Sky
“Another in a long line of rewarding surprises that this highly creative musician has brought to the table over the last few years.”