Arch Garrison
Craig has spent the last 20 years composing, performing and producing albums; best known for his chamber/psych/contemporary ensemble North Sea Radio Orchestra, he has also released music with Arch Garrison and recently several solo records.
All these projects have Craig’s strong and unique personal sound; virtuosic nylon-string guitar with a strong emphasis on melody and chord, be it with strings/wind/percussion/organ (North Sea Radio Orchestra), the psych-folk of Arch Garrison with it’s wobbly synths/organ and guitar or his solo material with combines all these elements.
Craig’s music is described as ‘english’ in sound with reviewers comparing him to Robert Wyatt, Vaughan-Williams, Cardiacs, Syd Barrett, Vernon Elliott etc etc.
VÄLVĒ
What is VÄLVĒ? Folk lullabies re-imagined by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Found-sound collages interrupted by Welsh language orations and sudden outbursts of fuzz bass. Gleaming synthpop workouts that collapse into swirling dreamscapes of sax and harp. Tiny sounds opening out onto the epic. Hi-tech and no-tech, deployed with equal measures of discipline and abandon. Carefully sculpted disorder. Uncanny geometries of noise and melody. Dizzy and gleeful and drawn in notebooks. That is VÄLVĒ.