Adam Stafford
| Adam Stafford | |
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| Born |
24 February 1982 Sunderland, England |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | Film director, Musician |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Notable work | Build a Harbour Immediately, Imaginary Walls Collapse, Taser Revelations, The Shutdown, No Hope For Men Below |
Adam Stafford (born 24 February 1982) is a musician and filmmaker from Falkirk, Scotland.
Adam Stafford is probably best known for being the lead singer and songwriter with critically acclaimed Scottish band Y'all is Fantasy Island and as an award winning short film maker and solo artist. Stafford was born in Sunderland, England in 1982. In 1986 he and his family moved to Falkirk, Central Scotland where he grew up. Stafford, his wife and daughter now reside in Falkirk.
Having released music as Y'all is Fantasy Island since 2005 as a solo project, Stafford added various members to augment his alternative folk sound. After independently releasing four LPs - In Faceless Towns Forever (2006), Rescue Weekend, No Ceremony and Infanticidal Genuflector (all in 2008) - the group announced that they would be splitting up in March 2010.
Stafford has released a number of Solo LP's including "Awnings" (2009), "Miniature Porcelain Horse Emporium" (2010) and mini album "Music in the Mirabel" (2010) which is a collection of covers and re-workings with tracks ranging from Daniel Johnston to Austrian Poet Georg Trakl. On these releases Stafford experiments with vocal looping and textural soundscapes. He was quoted as saying "I'd been experimenting with looping and layering vocals before – inspired, primarily, by Steve Reich's vocal arrangements on Music For 18 Musicians and Edinburgh artist Wounded Knee."
In August 2011 Stafford issued the album "Build a Harbour Immediately" which was produced by Paul Savage (Mogwai/Delgados) in Chem19 Studios in Hamilton. The LP was released to great acclaim in Scotland and made many end-of-year polls within the online blogging community. The album blended what Stafford had been experimenting with thus far: atmospheric acoustic folk and a capela experimentalism with an unusual sway for melodic, hook-laden pop choruses.
2012 proved to be just as busy a year for artistic output. In April Stafford issued a split 7" single with Phantom Band singer Rick Redbeard entitled "Now Were Dancing/Vanishing Tanks" on Gerry Loves Records and in August he produced (as well as contributing to) an EP cassette with the Falkirk outfit Sweethearts of The Prison Rodeo entitled "Welcome/Vessel Shifted". Stafford's side consisted of four minimal guitar instrumentals written for film.
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