Elkwort, by Ben McElroy

Elkwort

by Ben McElroy

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magoski Acceptance Raises
Hands to the Sun
Holding hands
Dancing
round
the Uni
verse
I am
there
holding the hands
of those
who think
like me
feeling the Sun
seeing the Sun
on your skin Favorite track: I Must Have Walked Past There A Thousand Times.

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1.	The Howling 05:29
2.	DEOR 09:55
3.	Kindling 07:08
4.	I Must Have Walked Past There A Thousand Times 02:22
5.	A Dream Of Deosil 09:56
6.	Elkwort 02:16
7.	Deosil 04:12
8.	(Bonus-digital) The Howling, The Howling (with Elinor Rowlands) 05:23	buy track

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Ben McElroy is a folk/experimental/ambient artist based in the UK.
He has released prolific albums since his 2016 debut "Bird Stone" for Whitelabrecs. Notable releases since then include 2018s "The Word Cricket Made Her Happy" for eilean rec. and 2022s "How I Learnt to Disengage From The pack" on The Slow Music Movement (which was folk album of the month in the Guardian). Ben also performs live around the UK (and potentially further in the future).

Ben McElroy:

"This album evolved from long improvisations on pump organ and cello.
I really wanted to play the instruments as a form of therapeutic release, a kind of stimming, paying more attention to this than the Appollonian aspects of the music. So scrape and repetition… anger and using the bow/keys to really try to gnaw into deep, old brain feelings.
I often start things with improvisations, but then tidy, smooth things out… I wanted to keep that aspect to the minimum here.. there is some, but where possible I’ve kept the squeaks, the noises, the mistakes.
The project took on another dimension when I received some funding from PRS Foundation, allowing me to bring more artists (Debbie Armour on vocals, Elinor Rowlands on spoken word and Nick Jonah Davis on guitar). Where possibly, these collaborations were also improvised, in the moment and left a little raw.
The funding also allowed me to create an accompanying film "Widdershins & Deosil". Shot with filmmaker Benjamin Wigley on 16mm film in Derbyshire, it is an abstract story of magic and puppetry using elements of the album as soundtrack."

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www.benmcelroy.co.uk
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credits

released April 28, 2025

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Ben McElroy - composition, arrangement, mixing, instrumentation

Elinor Rowlands - spoken word on "The Howling and I Must Have Walked past There a Thousand Times"
Debbie Armour - vocals on "Kindling and "Deosil"
Nick Jonah Davis - guitar and bowed weissenborn on "A Dream Of Deosil"

Recorded at home, Jt Soar (with Phil Booth and Rich Snug) and Nick’s studio-shed.
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Mastered by Nick Jonah Davis
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm ___________________________________________________

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