02 | 01 Arthur King
Arthur King
ARTHUR KING - a revolving collective of musicians, visual artists and film-makers based in Los Angeles - arrived on Eigg in the week leading up to our Howlin’ Fling! 2019 weekender. Their journey was sparked by an online conversation between Jason Lytle (front-man with alt-rock pioneers, Grandaddy) and Pictish Trail, earlier that year; having seen photos of our first series of VISITATIONS, Jason was keen to embrace the opportunity to explore and collaborate with his musical cohorts, Aaron Espinoza and Peter Walker of Dangerbird Records. All of this was to be captured on camera, manipulated, and projected back onto the island itself by fellow Arthur King companions, John Schlue and Aaron Farley.
Donning all-white laboratory overalls and red-beanie hats, the team immediately set about extracting samples of their surroundings with recording devices, creating an hypnotic collage of wildlife, nature, weather and local gossip. This provided the sonic landscape, over which the members improvised - culminating in a performance in the living room of one of the island’s residents, and a trippy late-night slot at the Ceilidh Hall as part of our festival.
Buy Visitations 02|01 Arthur King
The first release in our second series of VISIT▲TIONS was by Arthur King.
ARTHUR KING - a revolving collective of musicians, visual artists and film-makers based in Los Angeles - arrived on Eigg in the week leading up to our Howlin’ Fling! 2019 weekender.
The vinyl comes with a CD copy, and postcard with download code.
You can purchase it separately, or as part of Series 2 (with R.Aggs + Rozi Plain releases).
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Arthur King Interview
The Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail, produced and edited by Joe Cormack.
In the first episode of the podcast, we chat to Jason about his life in music, and his journey to Eigg and we hear from Aaron Espinoza and Peter Walker about the Arthur King project itself.
In the second episode, we chat to Jason, Aaron and Peter about life on Eigg, their recording process and the creation of the music for the project, as well as the experience of performing at Howlin’ Fling!. It also features an exclusive recording of Jason performing a classic Grandaddy song on piano, live at the festival
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