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Limited Edition of 50 Pro Dubbed Cassettes. Hand Painted / Letterpressed Packaging.
No two alike
“I know people will always assume that I listen to a lot of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Nick Drake etc. I do listen to all of this and I do love it but there is so much more to the world of music I inhabit. Some of my favourite composers take folk motifs to make ‘art music’, composers like Béla Bartók and Osvaldo Golijov. It is perhaps their approach rather than their music that influences me most. I listen to hours of field recordings from all over the world every week as well as ‘classical’ music from Dowland to Poulenc and 20th Century popular music styles.” - Nick Castell
I recently traveled across a large chunk of Europe with my fiancé. While we were in Wales I got in contact with Nick whom I'd hoped to meet up with once I arrived in London, unfortunately everyone I was traveling with got sick. Nevertheless I spent about two weeks between London and Wales listening to two traditional British folk songs performed by Nick Castell repeatedly without interruption. The two songs were "Courting Too Slowly" and "Sweet Lemeny" (Highly recommended free download HERE). Upon listening to Nick Castell's guitar compositions I was immediately taken back to the time when I first discovered Nick Drake, Anne Briggs...etc and how it completely altered my path in life and softened me to folk music.
Nick Castell's music has that exact same effect, to the point that I probably listened to the song "Courting Too Slowly" 30 times one after another while we hiked around Wales eating endless wild blackberries that grew on the side of every road in Llambedrog. After binge listening to those two songs and the rest of his outstanding catalog I decided to ask Nick if he would want to release something on Scissor Tail to which he agreed. I was and still am as equally blown away with this album "The Water Margin" which I then listened to every chance I could throughout the rest of our trip. Nick's music made the perfect soundtrack to my travels and made any menial task of travel enjoyable. I can only assume it will have that same effect on any willing listener.This is a beautiful loner folk album that will stand the test of time, no doubt about it. -Dylan Aycock
Nick will be playing the wonderful Sin Eater Festival this year alongside Cian Nugent, Sharon Kraus, Ben Chasny, Dead Rat Orchestra, Cath & Phil Tyler... Many more. Nick's other music can be found here.
