Sunstains by Andrew Bowsher
Balmy, sunstained compositions for small ensembles.
Blues & roots, percussive textures, fingerstyle guitar and world folk influences are interwoven to evoke languid and sultry seasons.
Tracklist
| 1. | Dream Raft | 4:25 |
| 2. | Vacana | 4:11 |
| 3. | Airplane Ride | 1:48 |
| 4. | Fragment for Lonely Dancers | 2:41 |
| 5. | Sandstone Saints | 2:28 |
| 6. | Baxter's Blues {1932} | 2:37 |
| 7. | Baxter's Revelation | 3:50 |
| 8. | Dew Dapples | 3:01 |
| 9. | Nehemiah | 3:59 |
| 10. | Samarkand | 4:48 |
| 11. | Meeting of the Rivers | 5:44 |
| 12. | Jaya Shiva Shankarah | 4:40 |
Credits
released August 29, 2025
Recorded at the Skeptic Tank, summer 2025.
Performed, produced and written by Andrew Bowsher, except:
- 'Airplane Ride' uses as it's runway a motif from Hobart Smith's 1963 recording of the traditional 'Heaven's Airplane'.
- 'Baxter's Blues' recorded Chicago 1932 by Blind Boy Baxter and the Bapsville Boys (BBB on banjo, with unknown guitar, jug, harmonica and washboard accompaniment).
- 'Baxter's Revelation' is a recomposition of 'Baxter's Blues' for blues band.
- 'Nehemiah' includes motifs from several of Skip James' 1931 recordings: 'Hard Time Killing Floor Blues', 'Cherry Ball Blues', 'Devil Got My Woman', 'Cypress Grove Blues', and 'Special Rider Blues'.
- 'Jaya Shiva Shankarah' trad. arr. Fahey/Mann. Rearranged for solo guitar.
Instruments: guitars, bass, bouzouki, banjo, ukulele, Seagull dulcimer, drums, hand percussion, harmonica, piano, organ, bamboo flute, glockenspiel.
'Sunstains' is the 9th Andrew Bowsher album on Skeptic Records.
Recorded with 8-track equipment at the Skeptic Tank, Wales.
The bap is on Skeptic.
Published/Copyright Skeptic Records 2025. All rights reserved.
SR-40
Recorded at the Skeptic Tank, summer 2025.
Performed, produced and written by Andrew Bowsher, except:
- 'Airplane Ride' uses as it's runway a motif from Hobart Smith's 1963 recording of the traditional 'Heaven's Airplane'.
- 'Baxter's Blues' recorded Chicago 1932 by Blind Boy Baxter and the Bapsville Boys (BBB on banjo, with unknown guitar, jug, harmonica and washboard accompaniment).
- 'Baxter's Revelation' is a recomposition of 'Baxter's Blues' for blues band.
- 'Nehemiah' includes motifs from several of Skip James' 1931 recordings: 'Hard Time Killing Floor Blues', 'Cherry Ball Blues', 'Devil Got My Woman', 'Cypress Grove Blues', and 'Special Rider Blues'.
- 'Jaya Shiva Shankarah' trad. arr. Fahey/Mann. Rearranged for solo guitar.
Instruments: guitars, bass, bouzouki, banjo, ukulele, Seagull dulcimer, drums, hand percussion, harmonica, piano, organ, bamboo flute, glockenspiel.
'Sunstains' is the 9th Andrew Bowsher album on Skeptic Records.
Recorded with 8-track equipment at the Skeptic Tank, Wales.
The bap is on Skeptic.
Published/Copyright Skeptic Records 2025. All rights reserved.
SR-40
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Andrew Bowsher is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist. A psych-folk stew from solo instrumentals to small ensembles, rags and ragas, post-rock and ambience, to chamber folk and blues.