DUNCAN MARQUISS

Guitar experimentations that search for a spark in krautrock, folk and celtic spaces.

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LIFE SEEMS TO be coming at us ever faster of late. Fancy stepping away and finding some musical comfort? We have the very thing. With “one foot in 1970s Germany and the other in the woods, rivers and mountains of northeast Scotland”, here’s guitarist Duncan Marquiss, an experimental strummer of six-stringed things both acoustic and electric, his all-instrumental debut album Wires Turned Sideways In Time a balm to the soul as well as minting a kind of celestial Scottish krautrock. “That wasn’t a conscious or intentional fusion,” says Marquiss, Zooming from his flat in Glasgow. “I love a lot of krautrock, and hearing things such as Neu! made me think there were things you can do with a rock band or rock format that can go beyond its orthodoxy.” Marquiss…

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