Category: emancipator
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“The Painted Lady ft. Kishi Bashi,” the lead single on the upcoming 2026 Emancipator album “Chrysalis,” was released July 26, 2026. I play fiddle and mandocaster on the song. It’s the 6th Emancipator album and 14th song I’ve contributed to, and maybe my all-time favorite of the songs I’ve worked with Emancipator on. I think great…
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Portland-based electronic/down-tempo producer Emancipator, a.k.a. Doug Appling, just released his sixth full-length album, “Mountain of Memory,” on Loci Records. I play violin, viola and mandocaster on two songs, “Iron Ox,” which was released as a single, and “Awakenings.” It hit #2 on the iTunes Electronic Albums chart. Buy a copy and/or have a listen on…
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Released in November 2017, “Baralku” by Emancipator shot immediately to the top of the iTunes Electronic album charts. I play the lead hook on the title track and a blues solo on the album’s first single, “Goodness.” Billboard’s review notes that the violin “consumes a large amount of the album’s melodic space — with surprising…
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In September of 2017 Emancipator released a single, “Goodness,” in advance of a full album due in November called “Baralku,” on the artist’s own Loci Records. The song, on which I play a slow bluesy doublestop shuffle on violin and take a brief solo, hit #43 on the iTunes Electronic song charts. Billboard, which premiered…
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Emancipator’s “Seven Seas” hit #2 on the iTunes electronic music chart upon its release in late September 2015. I play on four of the twelve songs on the album: 1993 (violin); Vision Quest (mandocaster); Delta Trance (violin, mandocaster, viola); and Honey (mandocaster). Of those, my favorites are 1993, in which I play the hook, and…
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In Summer of 2015 Emancipator released a remix album of Dusk to Dawn. My strings parts are woven into the Tor remix of “The Way,” which I like a lot, and the Frameworks remix of the title track “Dusk to Dawn.” It’s a trip to hear the already heavily processed original parts reimagined by two…
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Emancipator’s “Dusk to Dawn” was released in January 2013, and received airplay and reviews from top U.S. media. Emancipator, a.k.a. Doug Appling, along with his Ensemble, has been touring the U.S., bringing his focused melodic downtempo to clubs around the country. Doug plays most of the instruments on all his recordings, and favors a pristine,…
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Ares “Ares” is a track off of Emancipator’s 2010 album, “Safe in the Steep Cliffs.” I play viola and mandolin. Check out Doug’s website at emancipatormusic.com.
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Old Devil This track is one of the best on the 2010 album “Safe in the Steep Cliffs” by Emancipator, also known as Doug Appling. I play viola and mandolin on it. Check out Doug’s website at emancipatormusic.com.
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