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1 | Three Arrondissements | 15:36 |
| 2 | As Always After | 17:03 |
After countless unforgettable performance at OTO over the years, Glasgow-based musical polymath Richard Youngs shares with us absorbing new work:
"It has the trajectory of an imaginary Oto performance: I start all-guns-blazing. Five minutes in, and I can't maintain the energy, but want to push the sense of excitement. Ten minutes and things begin to fall apart. Onward. Equipment is failing. Time to bring it right down, and stretch out. While the SuperCollider code may be running, the rhythm pre-sets have packed-in, the laptop and tape machine I am using for backing sound faulty. Whoever is in charge of the P.A. is doing a grand job - everything is present and they have pushed the vocal way forward. I don't know if I am drawing the audience in, or if I am lost to them. Near the close I walk away, leave the machines running. And when they stop, there's a slight nervousness. Is that it?" - Richard Youngs
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Richard Youngs - code, rhythm pre-sets, distress, vocals.
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Recorded & mixed by Richard Youngs
Richard Youngs (b. 1966, Cambridge, England) is a musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. In a career spanning more than 40 years, his diverse and prolific output defies the existence of any definitive biography or discography. Primarily recognised as a solo artist and writer of extended song, he is also an active cross-genre collaborator. Recent work includes "deep wallpaper" music with Daniel O'Sullivan, and the potentially global site-specific Here Is A Big Place project with Raymond MacDonald. Initially a rare live performer, he has embraced the stage, playing throughout Europe in the past few years.
