Ross Sinclair - The Real Life Rock Opera Vol 1: Home – Faith – Real Life Mp3

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This is a musical reflection on the construction of identity exploring ideas of Home, Faith and Real Life (see CD booklet text). This
accompanied a solo exhibition in The Travelling Gallery, a mobile gallery in a bus that travels around Scotland. 10,000 of these CD’s
were distributed over the 3 months of the tour of the Lowlands, Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Each visitor who entered the bus
received a copy. With this collection of songs I wanted to present, side by side, old Scottish Songs, Religious Songs and my own
Real Life Songs, all performed by myself in amateur glory, lending them a home-spun texture and continuity, pulling them together
as a plausible collection. In this way the apparent dislocation and contradictions across the songs and their articulations of belief
and identity were collapsed in a kind of Real Life chorus suggesting an unusual but compelling melody. This played on an endless loop in the gallery/bus when it stopped to open its doors and worked alongside the sculptural/neon installation to appeal to the visitor
to reflect on ideas surrounding national identity and how a sense of ‘belonging’ can be manufactured, lost and found.