Episode #9.2: Randan Discotheque - "Let's Call It Dirt"

We met Randan Discotheque three months ago to record this session. Due to some scheduling problems and technical difficulties it's taken us till now to get it on the site. Forgive us. It's been worth the wait though.

We met singer and guitarist Craig, percussionist Doug and mandolin/guitar player Olly at the Edinburgh College of Art, where by some miracle we got access to a couple of places we really shouldn't have. We got two songs, both stripped down to bare bones folk songs, completely changing the tone from their electric versions which the band play at gigs.

Heading back downstairs to less wind and less vertigo, we were taken to the Sculpture Court in the main building. The sculpture court is a lovely, echoing chamber of light, where casts of the friezes from the Parthenon line the walls of the corridor. With art school types wandering past, barely noticing that a band was bellowing out songs in the midst of this otherwise quiet hall, we recorded "Let's Call It Dirt". Actually untitled at the time, this song, even more than the last, is a very different take from the version that can be seen at normal Randan gigs. The echo chamber effect of the hall adds a totally different dimension to the song, and we feel lucky to have caught it.

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