Ark by Craig Fortnam

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All at sea. Anchorless. Adrift.

Ark is the first album to be released as a Craig Fortnam solo album. As the composer for North Sea Radio Orchestra and Arch Garrison, Craig has always made music with meaning, emotional heft and depth of personality. Ark is his most personal and intensely realised record.

Craig’s music has been described as intrinsically English with place and the natural world being recurring motifs. In Arch Garrison the chalk downs loom large and become the canvas. For Ark the sea and the east coast of the UK become symbolic of uncertainty, tumult, pain and change. The place names are evocative of a beautiful bleakness and vulnerability. The coastline is unstoppably eroded by and into the unknowable vastness of the ocean.

Tracklist

1.	Ark	4:26

2.	The Gargoyle's Seaweed Hair	0:58

3.	Ravensodd	2:24

4.	German Ocean	2:26

5.	Managed Decline On The Orford Ness	6:46

6.	Crack Haven	1:18

7.	Strophic	4:29

8.	A Speck I Am	8:46

9.	Heaven Knows	2:29

10.	Now Floods The Tempest High	1:58

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Credits

released July 16, 2021

Craig Fortnam: voice, guitars, organ, synth, piano, percussion
Nicky Baigent: Bb clarinet, bass clarinet
Luke Crooks: bassoon
Harry Escott: cello
James Larcombe: piano
Brian Wright: violin, viola
Hugh Wilkinson: vibraphone

All titles composed and produced by Craig Fortnam

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