Sunday 6 November 2022, 2pm
A family show of sorts. Added together, the players on this Sunday matinee bill make up the full membership of the ex-Cornish folk band Red River Dialect. So this is a refracted Rainbow River Dialect day, expanding into mesmeric analog circuitry, free form drum and violin duets, and songs about doing karaoke in Walthamstow.
Following five albums of songwriting for Red River Dialect, David released Monastic Love Songs in 2021, an album written during a nine month retreat at a Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia and recorded with drummer Thor Harris and bassist Thierry Amar in Montreal. A new album, Wyld Love Songs, will be out in time for this show. Recorded between 2020 and 2022 with fellow RRD players Simon Drinkwater and Robin Lane Roberts, this album makes up a pairing, relating the year following his return. Together they will introduce the new songs, which will be drizzling out online in the lead up to this show. Press for Monastic Love Songs:
"seductive and deeply involving, hard-hitting in the manner of Nick Drake’s ‘Pink Moon’ or Richard and Linda Thompson’s similarly spiritual ‘Pour Down Like Silver’". 8/10 Uncut
"The transcendental acoustic glow of Red River Dialect is all over Monastic Love Songs, with extra contemplation and atmospheric jazzy undertones, echoing both Pentangle and John Martyn". - 4/5 Shindig
“Every so often an album will resonate with you from the very first line or chord” - Folk Radio UK
"some of the strongest work of the Red River Dialect frontman’s career. His richly rendered solo debut, Monastic Love Songs, vibrates with the energy and intimacy of his stay at Gampo, and it seems to light a way forward for Morris as a songwriter" - Pitchfork
The Silver Field is Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby - an artist and musician based in Derbyshire, working with analog circuitry and instrument design as part of her artistic and compositional practice.
She has released 2 LPs, on O Genesis and Crossness Records, an EP with Betwixt And Between Tapes, as well 3 albums of library music for KPM and Fold. Her music has been written about in Mojo, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, and Folk Radio UK, among others, and has been played on BBC 6Music and NTS, with 6Music's Maryanne Hobbs saying her track 'Rain' was "like an imagined dreamscape from a Joan Didion novel".
Bhattsanders formed from a online dialogue between Amsterdam based Drummer Kiran Bhatt and Todmorden based Violinist Edd Sanders in 2020. Tonal conversations between organic Jazz percussion and naive out-folk strings drive to an exchange of free formed melodies and natural rhythms to shape an intuitive duel voice.
