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Robin Williamson
Interview-CD
Album DE 2000 on ECM Records label
Folk (Folk)
For promotional use only. Not for sale. CD with interviews and 5 selected tracks promoting the release of The Seed-At-Zero. Robin Williamson talks about his ECM debut "The Seed-At-Zero" ... and about Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Celtic tradition, the return of the Incredible String Band, and more.
Musicians
 | Robin Williamson voc, *1943 GB album by, music by, words by, written by |
 | Detlef Diederichsen g, *1960 DE interviewer |
 | Henry Vaughan , 1621-1695 GB words by |
 | Dylan Thomas voc, 1914-1953 GB words by |
Composers
| Robin Williamson |
Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Question: You're known primarily as a folk singer while ECM is associated firstly with jazz and with classical music. How did "The Seed-At-Zero" come to be on ECM? | Robin Williamson | 3:20 | |
| 2 | Question: What does Dylan Thomas mean to you? Is it true that you loved his play for voices "Under Milk Wood", as a child? | Robin Williamson | 0:40 | |
| 3 | Question: You open the album with "The World", a much older Welsh poem by Henry Vaughan ... | Robin Williamson | 0:27 | |
| 4 | Song: The World | Robin Williamson | 2:43 | |
| 5 | Question: "The Seed-At-Zero" includes a reworking of an older piece of yours, "For Mr Thomas", a tribute to Dylan Thomas which Van Morrison has also covered recently. What were the circumstances under which you wrote that? | Robin Williamson | 0:44 | |
| 6 | Song: For Mr Thomas | Robin Williamson | 3:28 | |
| 7 | Question: Why did you choose to perform Dylan Thomas's poem "On No Work Of Words" as a blues? | Robin Williamson | 0:15 | |
| 8 | Song: On No Work Of Words | Robin Williamson | 3:58 | |
| 9 | Question: You have a very unorthodox guitar style, which sometimes brings the oud or the sitar to mind. Have you been influenced by these and other non-Western instruments? | Robin Williamson | 1:04 | |
| 10 | Question: The album includes your reflections from Balwearie Tower. What's the significance of this old Scottish landmark for you? | Robin Williamson | 0:58 | |
| 11 | Song: Verses At Balwearie Tower | Robin Williamson | Robin Williamson | 4:14 |
| 12 | Question: The oldest piece on the album is "Cold Days Of February", which you used to perform with the Incredible String Band in the early 1970s. It sounds quite different in the current unaccompanied rendition ... | Robin Williamson | 0:31 | |
| 13 | Song: Cold Days Of February | Robin Williamson | 2:52 | |
| 14 | Question: How does it feel to return to songs written many years ago? What do you learn in doing this? | Robin Williamson | 0:35 |
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