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Release Date: 2024-04-20Label: Betwixt & Between Tapes
The entry that takes the Betwixt & Between Tapes series into double figures brings together the first beautiful solo recordings from Shovel Dance Collective’s Nick Granata with a haunting drone extemporisation from Dawn Terry.Nick Granata makes folk music, usually with Shovel Dance Collective, wailing and droning. They are also an artist, writer, and entertainer. Everything they make is ancient and stolen. Current projects explore the power of music to manipulate our perception of time, and how this incredible power is used both to liberate and oppress.
Dawn Terry plays slow, melancholic, optimistic music for sad people. Based in Newcastle, she's a veteran drone artist, producing work that is heavy, dreamlike, open and hypnotic.
Working for years as one third of Bong, Dawn supplied heavy distorted bass and vocals. Bong are a drone-doom band, renowned for reaching beyond their metal roots towards a sound that incorporates the psychedelic and cosmic. They produced a high frequency of releases in the form CD-Rs documenting live performances, to compliment their occasional studio works.
In her more recent solo work Dawn has turned towards acoustic resonances provided by accordion, hurdy-gurdy, and voice. Both cleaner and denser than ever before, Dawn is now producing large scale minimalist landscapes characterised by an austere openness, barely punctured by hypnotic drumming or slowly intoned vocals.
Limited edition of 100.