Garefowl

Garefowl have shared a video for “Buthaigir/Puffin”, from their album “Things That Vanish” (AD 93). Director Luke Nairn and animator Liam Painter combine live stop-motion stone animations with 16mm performance footage. Nairn says he wanted it to feel “like you’re flipping through a picture book about a folk tale.”

Garefowl recorded “Things That Vanish” at night on Hirta, the main island of St Kilda. There are no synths this time: field and hydrophone recordings and X-ray diffraction drones take their place. In this Track by Track, the band introduce the seabirds behind the tunes. “It is not too late to learn the lessons of the past.”

Garefowl return with “Things That Vanish,” their second album, recorded on St Kilda’s main island at night. No synthesizers were used — drones were created from X-ray diffracted rock and bone samples. Nine tracks, each named for one of the archipelago’s threatened seabirds. Out 2 October via AD 93.

With their album ‘Cliffs’, Garefowl have produced music that effortlessly evokes the sights and sounds of the remote, rocky, seabird havens that make up the St Kilda archipelago. A truly satisfying album.