Name: The Curious Hand
Brand: Seamus Fogarty

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

80409CD

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-10-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Domin­o

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

887828040926

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Seamus Fogarty

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Domino

Irish alt-folk and electronica alchemist Seamus Fogarty releases The Curious Hand on Domino. Originally from County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, Fogarty now resides in London, and the capital provides the canvas for The Curious Hand. It also showcases Seamus’ natural inclination to take his songs and “screw them up,” by applying synthesizer drones and circuit burps, found sounds and spoken-word audio samples that give all of his records such wonderful atmosphere, as if they’re haunted by rogue half-tuned signals from another world. Fogarty’s method of lifting sounds wholesale from his environment and tucking them into the folds of his songs like keepsakes, renders himself at once, artist and archivist as well as twisting the notion of the folk singer’s role as collector and custodian of stories, traditions and cultural curio. The Curious Hand was produced by Seamus and Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Wild Beasts) who also plays on the album. Other notable players include Emma Smith on a plethora of instruments (violin, clarinet, bass to name a few), Rozi Plain (backing vocals), Aram Zarikian (drums) and Seamus’ brother John Fogarty (accordion).

The Curious Hand

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