Bothwellhaugh by Isobel Mckenna
"Originally on a cassette run of 5 available only in Motherwell Library in 1989. Came with a black and white photocopied sheet with track names and redacted newspaper cuttings which hint at a murder of a boy from the area who was drowned in a ritualistic killing, one of many that occur often at the waterways around Motherwell. It also had a photograph of the Clyde with the following text on the other side of the image:
"Clemson left Scotland to work in Costa Rica where she was last in contact with her Uncle Thomas who passed on a cassette with some of her recordings and let us take notes from his scrap book that he has kept. Clemson herself has not been heard of since 1993 though it is thought that she had been involved with the Humberto Ttocs exporting firm of the Cordillera de Talamanca region doing tests into past life memory access."
cassette digitised in 2020
Tracklist
Credits
All music written, performed and recorded by Isobel Mckenna
Original Cassette sleeve note credits:
Tracks 1 and 2
Guitar: Chick Gall,
Bass: Randal Port,
Live Sampler, keyboards and tapes: Clemson
Tracks 1 and 2 both recorded at 546a Windmillhill Street, Motherwell, August 1988
Track 3
Tapes and live sampler: Clemson
Voice and effects: Huis Clos
Track 3 recorded in the Pat Cullinan Center, Logans Road Motherwell, June 1987
From the collection of Thomas Marian
Photography by Patrick D McKenna
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