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.

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Morris explains the song and the context of the video:

“During the final weeks of the nine months I spent living at Gampo Abbey I was occasionally able to play this guitar. Playing ‘Blue Sparks’ without the rest of Red River Dialect brought on a longing to be amongst the full world of this song again, as it is played by all of us on the version which opens Abundance Welcoming Ghosts. It is a longing song, reaching out for more magic, more liberation, more contact. The fulfilment it reaches out for is slippery and elusive, and may be phantom. The fulfilment of pre-orders of our album, on the other hand, is easier to find.“

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Recorded in rural Southwest Wales shortly before songwriter and singer David Morris moved to a remote Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, their 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. 

  • Photo by Jimmy Robertson.
  • Photo by Alice Jackson
  • Photo by Brian Robinson.

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Red River Dialect have always ploughed their own furrow, with each album taking them to deeper and deeper levels, far beneath the soil. A rich, fulsome, lyrical experience, Abundance Welcoming Ghosts finds the band’s ragged, intense Americana rooted in the weight of history, with each song feeling torn from Victorian newspaper reports.

– Clash

The band stretches out a rhapsodic melody like a ribbon chasing the wind.

–  NPR

Thoughtful compositions that mix straightforward observation with naturalistic imagery and philosophical inquiry.

– Uncut

Beatific [but] thrillingly combustible. Morris’s earnest tones crack with loss. A rare British treasure.

– MOJO

Frenzied and fantastic… a radical, thundering realm [of[ sweeping, massive songs that incorporate old world folk and the tension of noise and drone music with equal force.

– UPROXX

An album of breathtakingly rare beauty. A classic in every sense.

– Echoes and Dust

A beguilingly atmospheric record… imagine Steve Gunn transplanted to Kernow and you’d be close. 

– Clash Music

An album of breathtakingly rare beauty. A classic in every sense. – Echoes and Dust Brimming with glorious dizzying energy and tension, primitive and cut loose from modern constraints. Impossible to resist.

– Folk Radio UK