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.
Itasca, the mesmeric project of California songwriter Kayla Cohen, has announced her new album Spring, due out November 1. The Fader announced the luminous album today and premiered its first single “Bess’s Dance.” NPR Music writes that “Kayla Cohen’s got a voice that glows like the sun at dusk.” Pre-orders now available.
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.
The ‘Red River Dialect’ became the English name / For the lilting Mantitoba Métis speech / Heard around the Saulteaux plain. / Like the Michif language, Cree don’t say he or she,’ / But I know that white man’s hunger ate / The speech of the Métis.
Mega Bog’s otherworldly new album Dolphine—lauded and laureled by the likes of NPR Music, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and The WIRE (who call it “one of 2019’s left field pop gems… a shimmering chiaroscuro [of] fully fledged delicious pop”—is now in stores and streaming worldwide. The band, who bloom and thrive in the live context, have announced North American and European tours.
Cowboy and the Stranger celebrates the occasion of Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West on display at L.A. Louver this summer. Featuring previously unreleased Allen demos and songwriting work tapes spanning half a century (1968/2018), this cassette-only release is limited to an edition of 500 copies total.
Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and PoB, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver, Summer 2019. Limited to an edition of 500 cassettes. All recordings are previously unreleased demos and work tapes, 1968/2018.
