Red River Dialect from England: Find Us
In 50 words or less, tell us what you sound like?
Playing our 2012 record "awellupontheway" on stage felt like playing waves. It felt like a crude kind of surfing. I have never managed to surf in real life though, so the comparison is dreamt. The new one feels like light rippling from a high vantage point, to me.
In 100 words or less, tell us why we should listen to you?
The lyrics to these songs on our forthcoming record Tender Gold and Gentle Blue come from a place of wanting to communicate that some of the heaviest experiences can be seen through. It's not a new observation. I hope that something about reconciliation on a wider scale makes it past the personal nature of the words here. I hope some of the images make a vivid splash in someone’s imagination somewhere. The only way to find out is by people hearing them and responding. That would be strange and welcome.
If you had to pick one of your tracks for our readers to listen to, which would it be?
Fallen Tree
Give us 3 bands you’d recommend we listen to?
Pollyanna Valentine, Steven R. Smith (in any of his many guises), Tara Jane O'Neil
What inspires your music?
Landscapes and friendships, human relationships of all kinds. Including the band I am honoured to play with. There is a lot of resistance, understandably, to overt earnestness and humility in the way some musicians present themselves, there is no escaping that. But the people I play music with I feel a deep connection to and love for. There is also the release from introspection that I experience from songwriting, into a more spacious awareness of being alive.
What we say:
In bringing something akin to post rock to the more traditional forms of folk music, Red River Dialect have created a sound that is at once comfortingly familiar and unsettlingly new.
