Dig That Treasure! Festival
2026 / 2024 / 2023
Harry Gorski-Brown
In an age where traditional musics are dug up, polished and sold in increasingly banal forms, Harry Gorski-Brown’s melange of studio and live recordings, text-to-speech voices, deep drones and an oddball sense of humour feels truly radical. This comes as no surprise, given his latest album found a home on Scotland’s GLARC label, home also to Dig That Treasure! alum Max Syedtollan and Able Noise. His recordings are largely of Scottish-Gaelic folk songs, arranged for pipes, voice, bouzouki, fiddle and electronics. They bubble and drone, with screeches of harsh noise interlocking with beautiful traditional melodies; neither anachronistic nor passé. He was recently an artist-in-residency at Nonclassical and has performed at the likes of Counterflows and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.