Red River Dialect’s Abundance Welcoming Ghosts is Out Today.

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Red River Dialect’s Abundance Welcoming Ghosts Is Out Today.

Red River Dialect‘s expansive new album Abundance Welcoming Ghosts is 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,” noting the “alternate seduction and disquiet on this worldly album steeped in the British landscape.”

The album title refers to a quote attributed to 11th century Tibetan spiritual master Machig Labdrön: “In other traditions demons are expelled externally. But in my tradition demons are accepted with compassion.” We’ll leave you with that beautiful and alarming thought for your weekend in this beautiful and alarming world. Anti-colonialist folk can help, perhaps.

Abundance Welcoming Ghosts Release Show in London.

Morris having handed back his monk’s robes and left the monastery, the band will reunite to play these songs on November 16th, almost a year after the album was recorded in rural Southwest Wales. Mark your calendars, and get tickets from Servant Jazz Quarters in London.

: Guardian Folk Album of the Month.

: MOJO review.

: Uncut review.

Acclaim for Red River Dialect

Straddling past and present, this is Red River Dialect’s most sunny and easygoing record to date… The record’s brilliance is most evident in its seamless shifts within the jam, as well as its general air of jubilance. Its earthen quality and atmospheric ease mirrors the mountains, rivers, and forests sung about by bandleader David Morris, a practicing Buddhist whose enlightenment is revealed through his lyrical poems and traditionally minded delivery. – Uncut

The most underrated folk-rock band in Britain. The idea of them as a Cornish-born, Buddhist-inclined Waterboys is more potent than ever. Their fifth album of elementally-battered, rueful and rousing folk-rock … is as stirringly anthemic as they’ve managed thus far. – MOJO

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

Gorgeous and moving, anchored by the heft of the physical but reaching for more. The epic spareness, the way it manages to be both still and an enveloping swirl, reminds me most of Talk Talk. There’s a prayerful intensity to the quiet bits, a listening, wondering awe, that makes the rock payoffs more powerful. The album works as a restless, searching, gorgeous whole. Morris and his band have never been better. – Dusted

Abundance Welcoming Ghosts is a heady album rife with heartfelt journeys … rugged folk-rock [that] concerns itself with journeys, exploring the topography of self, the ridges and contours of the past and geography itself — sometimes all at once. – Exclaim

It’s not often that a band comes along and over the course of nine songs both plays to the tradition and stands it on its ear. RRD has taken the challenge of playing with reckless abandon to heart, generating an album that stands on the shoulder of giants showing no fear. – Folk Radio

9/10. Wondrous and dramatic. This is folk music that glances into the darkness of deep tradition with a wide-open heart. It’s melodic meditation without fear. It’s a beautiful pause that finds an antiquated silence, just like the drama in a Thomas Hardy novel. It cuts various voiced confessions from the soul of humanity—Scot, Gaelic, Cree, and Ojibwa–that speak, and sing to the very human heart. This is a very beautiful and very spiritual record. – Soundblab

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