RICHARD DAWSON, BEAUTIFUL HERALD

We begin to know the idea: sometimes the part of novelty which is lacking at present is hidden in the most ancient past, that if folded in its mystery and its distance is as much his revisitation of archeology than fiction . Twisting the neck to the reactionary suspicions, explorers of folk music and constantly reinvent the past six or seven decades since, like he was such a wonderful place as the imaginative future. Visionary, iconoclastic radical and terribly far to stick like so many others at the sluggish perpetuation of an English folk who never ceases to return since the 50s, Briton Richard Dawson work at the cutting Guard prospectors songwriters whose music is at once a glimpse something of the mists of time and an unexpected escape route for folk music ultimately revivalist race.

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Discovered for his activism in the experimental music - electronic music with prospective Eyeballs or radical improvised music with harpist Rhodri Davies - this original native of Newcastle has yet made his voice as simply the world, with a very basic guitar , a talented poet and a few old stories found in grimoires. The Glass Trunk, his first major record, originally self-published in 2013 and is one of two Domino reissues these days (through its branch Weird World) guitaristic miniature mix inspired by Derek Bailey or cantor of 'americana, John Fahey, profane and intense choral laments hululées solo swear that fell from a past reference to ace archive Folkways Records label.

In fact, the album is the response of the English Half Memory, Project revivification archive at the initiative of ethnographic museums Tyne and Wear County, where artists are invited to delve into the annals to produce unpublished works. In search of new stories "about death and black magic," Dawson peeled a scrapbook of the late eighteenth century full of newspaper clippings stuffed with various sordid facts, stories of murders, disasters at sea or bodily mutilation to draw a strange songbook both archaic and unique, unparalleled in the contemporary pop field. With her fake baby air and quickdraw pillar pub, especially Dawson sings songs without age with an intensity at that point unusual that is quick to classify in this category blurry and cruel outsiders folk music (musical equivalent of the expensive raw art to Dubuffet).