Experience Essential
The debut album from Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross, released 18/06/2018 via Iffy Folk Records and Nymphs & Thugs.
Experience Essential is the debut album from Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross, a collaboration between award winning spoken word artist Kevin P. Gilday and multi-instrumentalist Ralph Hector. The album was recorded between 4MH Studios, Clydeside; Green Door Studios, Glasgow and HCTS Studios, Barcelona throughout 2017. Marrying contemporary spoken word to an array of post punk, kraut and electronica; the album foregrounds an uncompromising new voice amid dynamic compositions. With a lyrical style alternating between witty wordplay and stark confessionals, the album delves into the crushing absurdity of modern living – at once painfully personal and achingly universal.
Available as digital download, CD and Vinyl on Bandcamp.
Credits:
Words by Kevin P. Gilday - music by Ralph Hector
Recorded at 4MH, Clydeside; Green Door, Glasgow and HCTS, Barcelona
Mixed and produced by Ralph Hector
Guest drums by Shane Connolly (3,15) and Ben Brown (9,11)
Photography by Perry Jonsson
Praise for Experience Essential:
‘Experience Essential sees spoken word artist Gilday deliver a series of vocally driven and authoritative songs that are presented with powerful and inventive backing tracks. The album fully showcases the vitality of the poet’s words and presents a new and fresh way to experience spoken word poetry.’
The Wee Review
‘One of the strangest albums you’re ever likely to hear.’
Transistor
‘Hector’s musical contribution, unexpectedly euphoric at points, adds an exciting new dimension to Gilday’s already well-established down-in-the-gutter narratives: keep your ears pricked up for what The Glasgow Cross have to offer next.’
Ravechild