From Kernow to Appalachia...change at Takoma...

Delighted to be welcoming minimalist folk drone duo House and Land to the Dentist in October as they tour their new album release for Thrill Jockey records.

Sarah Louise Henson and Sally Ann Morgan’s approach to traditional music comes filtered through a shared love of the music of modernist composers such as Eliane Radigue and Tony Conrad.

The duo’s arrangements of 10 southern hymns and Appalachian ballads explore the common interest in microtonality, minimalism and drone inherent to both musical traditions.

They tour with American primitive guitarist Dylan Golden Aycock and are joined at the Dentist by resplendent Cornish folk-rock five piece Red River Dialect.

Tickets £9 advance/ £12 on the door https://www.wegottickets.com/event/415924

Licensed bar and canteen (more deets to follow)

Cider will mull, and hardwood smoulder...

:: HOUSE & LAND ::

http://thrilljockey.com/artists/house-and-land

House and Land is the duo of Sally Anne Morgan (fiddle, shruti box, banjo, vocals) and Sarah Louise Henson (vocals, 12-string guitar, shruti box, bouzouki). Sally and Sarah started playing together after Sarah opened for The Black Twig Pickers for whom Sally plays the fiddle. The duo quickly discovered that they were both interested in the same very specific forms of traditional music. Additionally, they both viewed it through the lens of their shared love of modern, experimental and minimal music. “We honor what two voices and bodies can do in one moment in time. It totally shapes our sound.”

Their playing together is wholly unmediated, without amplifiers and using just two sets of hands and voices. With a minimalist approach, their music considers the space between notes as much as the notes themselves. The material on their debut is drawn from traditional southern hymns and Appalachian ballads that originated in England and elsewhere hundreds of years ago. Microtonality is as essential to certain Appalachian vocal styles as it is to a Tony Conrad composition and the often spare adornment to their singing puts these complexities on full display.

:: DYLAN GOLDEN AYCOCK ::

https://dylangoldenaycock.com/

"...Aycock’s recordings weave ambient, experimental, and classical influences into the fabric of traditional American musical styles. Flecks of country and blues appear, but they’re mutated into enveloping soundscapes that go far beyond those genres’ tropes.” - Decoder

Dylan Golden Aycock (born 1985) is an American Primitive guitarist and Experimental Musician from Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2016, NPR named Dylan Golden Aycock's Church of Level Track one of the "Top 10 Solo Guitar Records of 2016" Uncut Magazine described him as "respectfully expanding on Takoma School roots, moving towards the sort of chamber folk compositions mastered by James Blackshaw and William Tyler." In the Bandcamp article "New Directions in Acoustic Guitar" Pitchfork writer Marc Masters writes "Aycock credited with nine different instruments, including violin, drums, pedal steel guitar and synthesizers add atmosphere to his thoughtful picking."

:: RED RIVER DIALECT ::

https://redriverdialect.bandcamp.com/

A Cornish five-piece who specialise in violin-powered folk music, bubbling up from the substrata heavy with trace elements of The Waterboys and The Dirty Three . They’ve shared bills with Steve Gunn, Michael Chapman and Hiss Golden Messenger. National Public Radio in America said they conjure “that moment when British bands like Fairport Convention were starting to play with the psychedelic textures of their homeland’s traditional folk music”.