Kitchen Cynics - Fractured Memories (Cruel Nature)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

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What We Say

Like everyone I'm sure Alan Davidson has problems, but with over a hundred LPs to his name writer's block isn't one of them. Happily his new LP for Cruel Nature is another acid-folk curiosity where light trails cling to the notes, machines are mischievously cajoled into hazy ambient & space folk-rock service & folk mundanity is viewed with wide open eyes & lysergically reimagined.

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what The Release Notes Say

Kitchen Cynics is the musical project of Alan Davidson from Aberdeen, Scotland. Active since the late 80s, with over a hundred releases, Alan is a prolific and talented songwriter whose work draws on his own experiences as well as the characters and history of Aberdeen. Full of charm, his albums are tender, bittersweet, packed with a dry wit and an ear for a melody that can pluck your heartstrings, whilst the words resonate deep within.

Feature and interview with Alan (Terrascope, 2005) www.terrascope.co.uk/Features/Kitchen%20Cynics%20interview.htm

'Sounded to me like a cross between Anne Briggs and Robert Fripp' (Dylan Carlson, Earth)

'The Kitchen Cynics have been releasing great weird music from their hidden fortress in Aberdeen since the 1980s' (Byron Coley, The Wire)

"Having released albums every year since 1989, Aberdeen’s Alan Davidson has amassed quite the catalogue. Operating in terrain similar to Current 93 (with much more of an emphasis on the folk side of things) and Ivor Cutler"

CREDITS
All songs by K Cynics, recorded in 2022 in Room 9 at The Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen.
Cover art by Alan Davidson
Design by James Watts

Thank you to the following for help/encouragement...
Francis Comyn
Simon Lewis
Phil McMullen
Roger Linney
Grey Malkin
Andy Nagy
Steve Strode
Irene Trudel
Rachel Winkworth
Melanie Xulu

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If you want more Alt-Folk delights then check out the independent artists in the Slow Folk Playlist