{"title":"Dohnavur","description":"\u003cp\u003eDohnavùr are a Scottish electronic group consisting of [a=Frazer Brown] and [a=Alasdair O'May]. \r\n\r\nDohnavùr tracks start off from Alasdair's modular improvisations, which are then passed to Frazer to add extra production elements, with an emphasis on lo-fi electronica, acid house and ambient exploration.\r\n\r\nDohnavùr release music thru [l=Werra Foxma Records], and as of 2021, via the excellent [l=Castles In Space].\r\n\r\ndohnavur.bandcamp.com\r\ndohnavur-cis.bandcamp.com\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-objectivity-the-orbs-rest-and-be-thankful-mix","title":"New Objectivity (The Orbs Rest and Be Thankful Mix)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe album’s opening track has been given an enthralling nine and half minute ambient house remix by the godfathers of the scene, The Orb. This leading 12” comes backed by a staggering Werra Foxma mix of the track by Dohnavùr themselves. Following the release of \u003ci\u003eThe Flow Across Borders\u003c\/i\u003e, the Dohnavùr journey continues with a remix album which is ready to be released later in the year. The album features incredible remixes from Richard Norris, Concretism, Warrington\/ Runcorn, Kieran Mahon, Letters From Mouse and Pulselovers. Dohnavùr have already returned the favour to Richard Norris (of The Grid\/Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve fame) for the group’s first official remix commission, remixing the track ‘Water’, currently available on Richard’s Group Mind label. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castles in Space","offers":[{"title":"White | 12\"","offer_id":50465725251915,"sku":"1132442","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/74e0342e-41e6-449f-86fa-2c19deac9738_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727295468"},{"product_id":"the-flow-across-borders-the-remixes","title":"The Flow Across Borders: The Remixes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe idea for a remix LP came about following the incredibly positive reception that greeted \u003ci\u003eThe Flow Across Borders\u003c\/i\u003e upon its release in May last year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the services of The Orb and Richard Norris were secured by the label, Frazer and Ali asked some of their favourite artists on Castles in Space to contribute remixes for the project, which subsequently grew into a wonderful overview of both the scope and diversity of the band’s output and the skill and sensitivity of the remixers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrazer Brown: “As the tracks started to come in, we realised that this collection was going to be something very special. The Orb remix is classic Orb, Richard Norris’ contribution is pure bliss, and the fact that this is the first official remix that Concretism has ever done is especially thrilling. Every track is astounding…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAli O’May and Frazer Brown met in early 2018 while performing with their respective bands at an Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) gig in Edinburgh. With obvious common interests, further discussions lead a few months later to Ali passing Frazer a USB drive filled with stems recorded directly from Ali’s vast modular system. Across August and September 2019, Frazer used about a dozen of those stems as the foundation for a set of tracks, building them into fully realised pieces across a range of styles from techno, lo-fi, breaks, acid house and ambient. And thus was born the Dohnavúr method - Ali coaxing the raw materials from his modular set up and Frazer working them up instinctively with his encyclopaedic knowledge of electronic music into tracks for which the feel, genre and direction is inspired by Ali’s foundational building blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSleeve artwork is once again handled by Mark Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e01 New Objectivity - The Orb’s Rest and Be Thankful Mix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e02 The Kindness of Others - Concretism Remix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e03 Twenty There - Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan Remix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e04 The Kindness of Others - Richard Norris Remix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e05 Sunk - Kieran Mahon Remix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e06 Pwll Du - Letters From Mouse Remix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e07 Five to Return - Pulselovers Remix\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castles in Space","offers":[{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50466081964363,"sku":"1141576","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2381de4f-70b3-40d2-a4d9-172f2c843415_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727304421"},{"product_id":"the-flow-across-borders","title":"The Flow Across Borders","description":"\u003cp\u003eAli O’May and Frazer Brown met in early 2018 while performing with their respective bands at an Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) gig in Edinburgh. With obvious common interests, further discussions lead a few months later to Ali passing Frazer a USB drive filled with stems recorded directly from Ali’s vast modular system. Across August and September 2019, Frazer used about a dozen of those stems as the foundation for a set of tracks, building them into fully realised pieces across a range of styles from techno, lo-fi, breaks, acid house and ambient. And thus was born the Dohnavúr method - Ali coaxing the raw materials from his modular set up and Frazer working them up instinctively with his encyclopedic knowledge of electronic music into tracks for which the feel, genre and direction is inspired by Ali’s foundational building blocks. It’s a fascinating and unique way of working, but the results are staggeringly good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking their name from the the Bridge of Weir family home in which Ali grew up, fifteen miles West of Glasgow, the newly christened Dohnavùr released this first batch of collaborative tracks on their debut album, “You Can and You Shall”. A joyously diverse set, filled with innovation and promise of the great things to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust two weeks after “You Can and You Shall” was released in March 2019, the pandemic brought the world to a screeching halt, placing any opportunities to promote the album with live appearances on hold indefinitely. Ever resourceful, Ali and Fra started looking around for allies and likeminded musicians and labels on Twitter. Enter Castles in Space, who had sent out the call for submissions for “The Isolation Tapes” a release requesting submissions recorded in lockdown and released in support of the Cavell Nurses Trust. Dohnavùr submitted a long, paranoid, snarling mood piece called “Surmonter” (French for ‘Overcome’) which confused and delighted “The Isolation Tapes” compiler Colin Morrison in equal measure. The track was given pride of place as the opening track in the downloads section of the album (which went on to be awarded “Compilation Of The Year” in the Electronic Sounds 2020 awards).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe link with Castles in Space firmly established, Morrison snapped up the subsequent “Pristine Environments” EP, created with further stems from the by now legendary USB drive, for a vinyl release for the 500 subscribers of the Castles in Space Subscription Library service, where it has been greeted with huge enthusiasm by the loyal and engaged Library members.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis brings us up to date and we are now hugely excited to announce the release of the new Dohnavùr album \u003ci\u003eThe Flow Across Borders\u003c\/i\u003e supported by a leading 12” single of album opener “New Objectivity” expanded and remixed by electronic music legends, The Orb.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castles in Space","offers":[{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50507304665419,"sku":"1132620","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c1a5848e-53e0-42f1-b1a9-0735942b6193_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727846434"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/dohnavur.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}