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Andy Cartwright's project 'Seabuckthorn' continues to drift, nomad like, through his uniquely crafted musical landscapes. His music explores alternative terrains on six to twelve strings, often with minimal, layered accompaniments. Sometimes quietly ambient, often powerfully expressive

SEABUCKTHORN

Photography by Edward Sheriff Curtis
Music by Sea Buckthorn and William Ryan Fritch

Ballads for Dreamers and Love Makers - A Fritch and Buckthorn Story

seabuckthorn

Guitar

Seabuckthorn [Andy Cartwright (UK) - Acoustic Guitar Solo Project]

theatre

Amman Birds
Music Composition and Arrangement: Dr.Najati Al Suloh 
Piano: Aziz Maraka
Oud: Humam Eid
Nay : Noureddine Abu Haltam
Recording and mix: Maestro Entertainment Studio

Amman Birds- Dr.Najati Al Suloh

Luis Borda - guitar
Roman Bunka - oud "composer"
Jost Hecker - cello

Orientacion - For Luis

Piano : Adib Ghorbani 
Tar: Ali Choolaei
photo: sally mann
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” 
― Rose Kennedy
in memory of our beloved friends

Sooz o Godaz

Sooz O Godaz - in memory of our beloved friends

A collection of songs played mainly on an open C tuned resonator guitar & an open A tuned 12-string acoustic guitar. 
Melodies coming from guitar improvisations, heard in dreams, misheard in reality, all of which continued to invade my thoughts, a driving force for inspiration to record during my time living in Paris. These songs did indeed haunt me most thickly. 

Road From Zammour

Let The Night In

They Haunted Most Thickly And Sang

Heavy Calm animated music video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDSoox28iBQ&feature=youtu.be

Heavy Calm

When Those Lights Come For You

His Way Became Lost

Eve Of The Rains

Cafe Accordion Orchestra performs L'Indifference from their album Le Disque Francais.


L'Indifference - Cafe Accordion Orchestra

Order 'I Could See The Smoke' EP on Cassette Tape / Digital here: https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/i-could-see-the-smoke

"Returnee" is taken from Seabuckthorn's upcoming EP 'I Could See The Smoke', coming out October 2016 on Lost Tribe Sound.  Seabuckthorn is UK experimental guitarist Andy Cartwright. 

Mastered by William Ryan Fritch

I Could See The Smoke

Returnee

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Seabuckthorn - Returnee (from I Could See The Smoke EP)

Buy Album: https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/i-could-see-the-smoke

Lost Tribe Sound releases ‘I Could See The Smoke', an EP from UK guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Seabuckthorn, the EP is available on a limited cassette tape edition and digital. Since the recent success of guitarist Western Skies Motel’s album ’Settlers’ in April, the tribe has hit the jackpot this year signing another of the most interesting guitarists around. Andy Cartwright who records under the name Seabuckthorn came to our attention last year, after a wise suggestion from composer William Ryan Fritch with his full-length album, ’They Haunted Most Thickly’ on the admirable French label, Bookmaker Records. After taking a deep listen, the awe set in. Could this be the missing link between the bombastic, world building intensity of William Ryan Fritch and the sublime, droning meditations of Western Skies Motel? 

Seabuckthorn’s unique breed of guitar-based compositions have the ability to shift gear with such natural ease. Cartwright wields his weapons wisely, choosing a minimal, yet powerful arsenal made up of various twelve string guitars, a well worn resonator guitar, and deep accents of percussion. We hesitate to single out a particular style in the case of Seabuckthorn, as it rests comfortably alongside many genres. Americana and British folk are easy tags. The music also borrows from modern classical and drone. At times, even subtle cues of the Middle East enter the picture. Yet something more ancient is at work here, that recalls the minstrels of old, or the seafaring hymns of a long forgotten civilization. At times, the music comes full force, like an intense hunt through darkened woods, unleashing the resonator like half-tamed hounds, wild and relentless, a sickly horn-like sound rises from haze, a claustrophobic dread setting in the mind of the prey. In other moments, Cartwright's music plays with subdued, visceral tones that immediately fill the mind with imagined, yet familiar scenes: the hushed ember-lit nocturne for a desert at dusk; or the weary basecamp reveries at the summit of impassible cloud-capped mountains. 

Cartwright notes in his own words that, "'I Could See The Smoke' is an arrangement of ideas gathered whilst on a European tour throughout June 2016, along with a couple of older songs I've been playing live for a year or so. After the tour, I returned home to Bristol eager to strike while the iron was hot and try to capture these compositions. Recorded & mixed over a period of two weeks whilst feeling the heat (both literally & politically) I opted for a threatening, even apocalyptic EP title. Saying that, I think most of these songs can offer up a tranquillity to counteract the gravity of these uncertain times, a calm inside the eye of a storm."

Mastered by William Ryan Fritch

Overgrown Courtyard

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Seabuckthorn - Overgrown Courtyard (from I Could See The Smoke)

Taken from The Italian Workbook, out now on all major stores

Dirk Maassen - Moltrasio

From the forthcoming soundtrack for "The Bill Nye Film."
http://billnyefilm.com

Uncommon Zeal

Greying Mysteries

testaments

Buy Album: https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/i-could-see-the-smoke

‘I Could See The Smoke', an EP from UK guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Seabuckthorn. Since the recent success of guitarist Western Skies Motel’s album ’Settlers’ in April, the tribe has hit the jackpot this year signing another of the most interesting guitarists around. Andy Cartwright who records under the name Seabuckthorn came to our attention last year, after a wise suggestion from composer William Ryan Fritch with his full-length album, ’They Haunted Most Thickly’ on the admirable French label, Bookmaker Records. After taking a deep listen, the awe set in. Could this be the missing link between the bombastic, world building intensity of William Ryan Fritch and the sublime, droning meditations of Western Skies Motel? 

Seabuckthorn’s unique breed of guitar-based compositions have the ability to shift gear with such natural ease. Cartwright wields his weapons wisely, choosing a minimal, yet powerful arsenal made up of various twelve string guitars, a well worn resonator guitar, and deep accents of percussion. We hesitate to single out a particular style in the case of Seabuckthorn, as it rests comfortably alongside many genres. Americana and British folk are easy tags. The music also borrows from modern classical and drone. At times, even subtle cues of the Middle East enter the picture. Yet something more ancient is at work here, that recalls the minstrels of old, or the seafaring hymns of a long forgotten civilization. At times, the music comes full force, like an intense hunt through darkened woods, unleashing the resonator like half-tamed hounds, wild and relentless, a sickly horn-like sound rises from haze, a claustrophobic dread setting in the mind of the prey. In other moments, Cartwright's music plays with subdued, visceral tones that immediately fill the mind with imagined, yet familiar scenes: the hushed ember-lit nocturne for a desert at dusk; or the weary basecamp reveries at the summit of impassible cloud-capped mountains. 

Cartwright notes in his own words that, "'I Could See The Smoke' is an arrangement of ideas gathered whilst on a European tour throughout June 2016, along with a couple of older songs I've been playing live for a year or so. After the tour, I returned home to Bristol eager to strike while the iron was hot and try to capture these compositions. Recorded & mixed over a period of two weeks whilst feeling the heat (both literally & politically) I opted for a threatening, even apocalyptic EP title. Saying that, I think most of these songs can offer up a tranquillity to counteract the gravity of these uncertain times, a calm inside the eye of a storm."

Mastered by William Ryan Fritch

Seabuckthorn - I Could See The Smoke (from I Could See The Smoke)

Zero

2010

yann tiersen:::naval

Somewhat Like Vision

A House With Too Much Fire

MONO - Dream Odyssey

Titi Robin - La petite mer

HUNUN

The Cloud And The Redness

'Seabuckthorn' is the solo work of Andy Cartwright.
Exploring various approaches on guitars, with fingerpicking, bowing and slides, often with layered accompaniments