{"product_id":"we-owe-each-other-everything","title":"We Owe Each Other Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003eAli O'May and Frazer Brown first met in early 2018, performing with their respective bands at an Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) night in Edinburgh. A\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eshared musical sensibility was immediately apparent, and a few months later Ali handed Frazer a USB drive loaded with stems recorded directly from his vast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003emodular system. Over the summer and autumn of 2019, Frazer took around a dozen of those stems as the foundation for a collection of tracks, shaping them\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003einto fully realised pieces spanning techno, lo-fi, breaks, acid house and ambient.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so the Dohnavúr method was born: Ali coaxing raw materials from his modular setup, and Frazer working them up instinctively — his encyclopaedic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eknowledge of electronic music guiding the feel, genre and direction suggested by Ali's foundational building blocks. It's a genuinely unique way of working, and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe results speak for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking their name from the Bridge of Weir family home where Ali grew up, fifteen miles west of Glasgow, the newly formed Dohnavúr released their debut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ealbum, You Can and You Shall — a joyously diverse collection, full of innovation and brimming with promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust two weeks after its release in March 2020, the pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Resourceful as ever, Ali and Frazer sought out kindred spirits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand labels. They found one in Castles in Space, who had put out a call for lockdown recordings for The Isolation Tapes — a release in aid of the Cavell Nurses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrust. Dohnavúr submitted \"Surmonter\" (French for Overcome), a long, paranoid, snarling mood piece that confused and delighted compiler Colin Morrison in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eequal measure. It was given pride of place as the opening track in the downloads section of the album, which went on to win Compilation of the Year at the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElectronic Sound 2020 Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, We Owe Each Other Everything continues to redefine the Dohnavúr method. Built once again from a new set of modular creations by Ali, and expertly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eshaped by Frazer in his Armadale studio, it's an extraordinarily diverse and exciting collection — cohesive yet wide-ranging, this is music that hits you directly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ein the heart and the solar plexus. It makes you feel things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide one opens with the sawtooth resonance of \"Flowers in the Barrel\", moves through the clattering momentum of \"Ready for '91\", and arrives at \"Make It in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLivingston\" — a darkly ominous commentary on the new town where Frazer grew up. Side two delivers the haunting beauty of \"Acetylene\", the cinematic,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eeighties-inflected uplift of \"Powerless\", and closes with \"Unwavering\" — an emotional gut-punch featuring vocals from Emile Wauters (aka Autumna) that\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eonce heard will not be forgotten. This is Frazer in excelcis, doing that thing that only this music can do - elation and melancholy hand in hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe Owe Each Other Everything is Dohnavúr at their most powerful and assured: two musicians with a singular creative chemistry, making music that is\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eimpossible to categorise and impossible to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Plant","offers":[{"title":"Orange Smoke Vinyl","offer_id":54475684577603,"sku":"RPT-23177","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/b315332e709c9e5ad9e46e4567a6fd8b.png?v=1778578454","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/we-owe-each-other-everything","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}