Arborist

Arborist shares “The Taming of Horses,” and announces his first self-produced album, Looking For Love, due via Fika Recordings. Belfast songwriter Mark McCambridge wrote the track during late nights watching Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man. Lush Hammond organ gives the song a sprawling, sophisticated feel — simultaneously disquieting and uplifting.

Arborist, the project of Belfast songwriter Mark McCambridge, has shared a video for new single “Looking 4 Love”. Arpeggio harp and a piano motif borrowed from Jacques Brel’s 1961 song “Marieke” puncture a taut, straight rhythm and droning harmonium. There is menace in the atmosphere, but McCambridge offers a hand to guide the listener through Belfast’s darker corners.

Last month so the release of A Nothern View, the new album from Belfast-based band Arborist, the brainchild of songwriter Mark McCambridge. Watch him performing the lead track live, also our Song of the Day.

McCambridge has cultivated a distinctive musical arboretum within which the emotional panorama and insightful perspective afforded by A Northern View has resulted in a powerful and compelling album, as well as one of the best musical responses to Brexit to date.

Sea Songs: Anatomy of a Drowning Man is the forthcoming new album from Belfast-based M.CAMBRIDGE (Arborist). Featuring sea songs based on old shanties, Ulster weaver-poet poems, traditional ballads and original compositions, it’s one of the most beautiful and remarkable albums I’ve heard this year.

We have the pleasure in sharing this track premiere of the new single from Arborist, a confident, six-minute ramble through the day-to-day and a shameless crack at the pop charts.