Name: Fire Escape - feat. Ocean Vuong by Ramblxr
Duration: 5 min 8 s
Description: I often end my show with this track when everyone is deeply emotional and in a place to absorb Ocean Vuong's words. This is from his essay "The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation." He read parts of it on the podcast On Being with Krista Tippet, and that's where I took this audio from.

A pleasant stroll through a spring field becomes a bop.

Wildflowxr

Traditional fiddle tunes from Scotland meet disco. Bonus Gaelic song at end.

Fiddle Disco!

My new song Filleted Fxsh has a cool story. It features a bit of audio I took from a lecture given years ago by the legend himself Allan MacDonald at the College of Piping. The talk was about piobaireachd, the classical music of the highland bagpipes. One of the points of the talk was to encourage players to bring more rhythm and musicality in their piobaireachd playing. At one point he quoted his friend Professor Tovey of Edinburgh University saying "music without rhythm is like a filleted fish!" meaning it has no backbone, it's floppy and loose. I loved this bit of audio and in the long tradition of samplers and beat-makers, I stole it and put it in the track (I got permission afterwards!). I feel like it's a perfect encapsulation of the philosophy behind Ramblxr.
I was also very honored to have Anna Colliton record a bodhrán solo on this track!
When I originally conceived of this track, my thought was "I wonder if I can make a hard EDM bass out of the bagpipe drones." So I did just that! I used a bunch of effects to transform the bagpipe drones into the wubby bass you hear in the recording. It took a couple of years and a lot of learning to get it just right! Thanks to Cameron Reay and Ryan Seay who helped me work on the bass toward the end of the process, and helped me layer some cool sounds on it.  
Please share, stream, and save this song, and add it to your playlists! It really helps!

Lots of love!
Elias

Filleted Fxsh

A medley I do live featuring Alasdair White on fiddle in the first tune. I love playing these live, they always get the crowd going. 

Don't settle down. Decolonize.

Don't Settle Dxwn - feat. Alasdair White

A pleasant stroll through a spring field takes you to absolute groove town babyyyyyy

mastered version

Wildflower - feat. Maura Shawn Scanlin - mastered

I often end my show with this track when everyone is deeply emotional and in a place to absorb Ocean Vuong's words. This is from his essay "The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation." He read parts of it on the podcast On Being with Krista Tippet, and that's where I took this audio from.

Fire Escape - feat. Ocean Vuong

My full show at Folk and Forage Festival Fall 2023 in Veneta, Oregon, recorded using stereo microphones positioned at the back of the crowd.

Fire Escape - feat. Ocean Vuong

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