FIGHTING WITH YOUR SHADOW

Mark Mulholland

Three years on from the widely praised Revolutions Go In Circles, Scottish songwriter Mark Mulholland returns with a brand new album, Fighting With Your Shadow.

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As a roots musicians go, Mark Mulholland has a CV that’s the envy of most. From playing in psychedelic bands in Edinburgh to busking in the streets of Europe, forming bands in the West of Ireland and song-swapping in Prague to running open-mic nights in Berlin and criss-crossing Europe and North America with the country-folk troubadours Two Dollar Bash. Recording with Nikki Sudden and Captain Sensible, he wound up in Port-au-Prince collaborating with Haitian polymath Frankétienne and legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, before heading to Mali with work with kora maestro Toumani Diabate and griot singer Kankou Kouyate. Add into that work with Damon Albarn, Rachid Taha, Kid Loco and Touareg rockers Tamikrest and you’ve got one hell of a remumé.

Recorded at various locations in Paris and Berlin, Fighting With Your Shadow finds Mulholland, recently having re-emerged from pandemic islolation, calling in favours and rekindling various friendships from the past four decades on eleven songs of reflective country-folk and breezy life-affirming roots-rock, each with a tale to tell and as a whole, a testament to the value of friendship.

“This collection is a mix of songs from a few different musical strands I have been following of late,” he explains. “In Paris I was working with Christophe Borca and Grégor Heuzé, while, in parallel, recording new songs with Stéphane Doucerain, and developing tracks on my own and in collaboration with other musicians. For me, music and friendship are always intertwined and the combination has enriched my life immensely. Several songs were inspired by colourful phrases that popped up in conversation, including something said by my friend Chico Antonio, who, sadly, left us before the record was completed. This album is dedicated to Chico.”

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