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Album review: Adam Stafford – ‘Trophic Asynchrony’: Falkirk composer moves to a deep, cyclical set of formal minimalism to address the ecological state we’re in

FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford, the film-maker and folk artist whose lockdown notebook album Diamonds Of A Horse Famine we warmly embraced here last summer – not least because it contained the…

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See: Adam Stafford – ‘Threnody For February Swallows’: grand avant-classical minimalism cautions against climate change

FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford, the film-maker and folk artist whose lockdown notebook album Diamonds Of A Horse Famine we warmly embraced here last summer – not least because it contained the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks

Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin' folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year

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TRACK: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: an eerie, dream-state blues

ADAM STAFFORD, Song, By Toad’s rather excellent Falkirk folk guitarist, has just released the title track of his forthcoming LP Diamonds of a Horse Famine for your delectation. And a…

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SEE: Adam Stafford – ‘Erotic Thistle’: a warm and confessional folk fingerpicking gem

FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford is one of them; he’s good at stuff. Grrr. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and film-maker, who necessarily has used the purdah of lockdown to create; for what else…

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Album Review: Adam Stafford – Fire Behind The Curtain

Oh bollocks. I lack the vocabulary to do justice to this record. Any knowledge of minimalism I have is, well, minimal. That BBC4 documentary a few weeks back was enough…

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