In celebration of the three-year anniversary of the release of Red River Dialect’s miraculous Broken Stay Open Sky (2018), songwriter David Morris is sharing the stunning solo demos he recorded in advance of the album, including three otherwise unheard tracks. For a limited time, every Bandcamp download of this digital-only album includes a coupon to pick up BSOS on any format at half price.
It’s Bandcamp Friday, and we have five new surprise songs for you, in the form of two digital singles from Red River Dialect (Overabundance) and James Elkington (Beechwood Park/Corridor Country). Bandcamp is once again waiving its revenue share today, July 3, and we will do the same for all other digital Bandcamp sales, passing proceeds along to artists.
The Overabundance EP follows Red River Dialect’s 2019 full-length Abundance Welcoming Ghosts (PoB-046) and includes three studio outtakes from that acclaimed album: “Front Row” (about missing a Bill Callahan show), “Old Afternoon” (recalling a final meal with a father), and the instrumental “Slinky.”
Following the release of their album Abundance Welcoming Ghosts in September, Red River Dialect have announced a string of UK tour dates for February 2020. The band also play their sold-out album launch tomorrow night, Saturday 16 November at Servant Jazz Quarters. To celebrate, they’re sharing the beautifully animated video for “BV Kistvaen”, made by animator and band member Robin Lane Roberts.
Now available to stream and purchase worldwide. Recorded right before songwriter David Morris moved to a Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, and featuring guest appearances from Joan Shelley and Tara Jane O’Neil, the record has earned acclaim from Uncut, MOJO, and notably, The Guardian, who chose it as their Folk Album of the Month, perceptively describing it as “anti-colonialist folk … a wide-eyed, curious creature, willingly alert to the world.”
Ahead of the release of Abundance Welcoming Ghosts on September 27, hear the album’s third and final single “Red River,” which narrates the history of the language—a creole of Cree, Scots, Gaelic, and Ojibwa spoken in Manitoba—from which the band take their name, and the colonial dynamic replicated in the process: the “narrowing Throat of the World.” Uncut writes the band’s “most sunny and easygoing record to date… exudes enlightenment.”
Featuring Tara Jane O’Neil on slide guitar and premiered by Raven Sings the Blues (with apt comparisons to John Martyn and Fairport Convention), “My Friend” follows first single “Snowdon” (with Joan Shelley) and a solo performance video of album opener “Blue Sparks.” Abundance Welcoming Ghosts is out Sept. 27th.
Red River Dialect has shared a solo performance video of “Blue Sparks,” the first song on forthcoming album Abundance Welcoming Ghosts, on which it appears in a radically different full-band form. Songwriter David Morris sent this transmission from Gampo Abbey, the Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia where he resided after recording the album.
Recorded in rural Wales shortly before songwriter and singer David Morris moved to a remote Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, Red River Dialect’s fifth album captures the band finding fresh joy in their music, relaxing more deeply into a natural, playful confidence: tangling with the thickets, wading in the river, digging the peat, and disappearing into the mountains.
Recorded in rural Southwest Wales shortly before songwriter and singer David Morris moved to a remote Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, Red River Dialect’s fifth album captures the British folk-rock band finding fresh joy in their music, relaxing more deeply into a natural, playful confidence: tangling with the thickets, wading in the river, digging the peat, and disappearing into the mountains. Featuring Joan Shelley and Tara Jane O’Neil.
