It’s Good Friday and we wish to extend a hand out to some seriously good people. We feel so honoured to have had the opportunity to have worked alongside some of the most profoundly talented individuals, in bringing our records to new found heights.
First, to James Osler who is a brother to both of us. Sharing a path with our favourite composer to bless this earth is the greatest honour for us. Your late late nights and early early mornings wreathed in tenacity and delirium have brought a wondrous dreamscape to the fabric of our art. We love you so so much.
To Jools Owen who is the beating pulse of so much magic behind the ethereal, longing horn lines which scatter the landscapes of many a song of ours. To Fraser Bowles for his incredible talent in making tangible, all those emotions we put to him as he soars in deep, meditative improvisation. To Richard for his unique tonal fingerprint which touches the music so deeply, and offers a hauntingly beautiful realm in its wake. To Hugo Scott, one of the truest artists we have come to know, for embodying the soul of the train for two wrongs. To Rhys Lovell for the depth and warmth you have brought with bow and heart to the music.To Rebecca bell for her incredible gift of embodying the music within her playing and offering a rock to her sweeping Melodies. To Shirley smart for her deeply moving performances though-out and finally to Owain Jenkins for opening up, with your generosity and genius, a new sonic journey which breathes even more rigour and depth into what is to come in the near future.
Happy Easter all!
With love and compassion,
F&R
”Happiness is only real, when shared…”
Christopher McCandless.
'In Tune With The Infinite' Tour
We are so, so excited to be performing our new album ‘SAMANA’ around the UK with our full band + strings in June! Join us for an entirely artistic curated evening that you will never forget.
June 16th - Wales - (Pembrokeshire) Newport Memorial Hall
June 17th - Bristol - The Mount Without
June 21st - Brighton - St Michaels Church
June 22nd - London - Proposition Studios
“It was the closest thing I’ve ever encountered to a spiritual experience”
-Interviewed Audience member
'The Knife' on BBC Radio Wales
A huge thank you to Adam Walton on BBC Wales for making ‘The Knife’ his long song of the week! “The long song is the song that I wish I could play to the legendary radio presenter Janice Long to try and get her to feature it on her program. She has very high standards. This week is Samana!” Listen from 1:14:03 to hear us speaking about ‘The Knife’
“It’s cosmic, That was something else!”
-Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
ANNOUNCEMENTS!
Today, we finally unveil the Knife, our most explosive song to date. "A stirring lead single that brings together choir-like vocal swells and tempered instrumentation, the whole thing eventually exploding under the weight of pressure, an exhilarating release of noise and energy." Tom Johnson - Gold Flake Paint. listen to it now
With such an announcing, comes perhaps an even more exciting one in the unveiling of our 3rd album, which is to be a self titled record under our own imprint ‘The Road Records’ Out on May 24th. Pre-orders are available now for both the limited edition vinyl and cd's.
This record represents a deep dive into the notions of freedom, as well as the magnitude of expansive nature and what it means to live inside of it. Having moved to the deep Welsh countryside a few years ago, the two of us began working on a creative enterprise, turning what was a residential smallholding into an artistic homestead and production house, through the means of traditional building techniques. From replacing the old dairy with an analogue recording studio, and gifting previously grazed land to a nature recovery program, our vision is simple; to create a centre for artistic self- sustainability with the natural world at its core. Immersed in this new lifestyle, bound to a place after years of nomadic transition, our 3rd Album "SAMANA' offers an origin to a new model we seek to employ in sustaining uncompromising artistry in the UK.
We will be taking this record to the road in June for the "In Tune With The Infinite" Tour; an all curated event, which we are taking to a small number of unique spaces around the UK. For it, we will be bringing to you the full carnation of our live performance as a 7 piece, to perform our new album 'SAMANA’ in the sacred circle of the round. You will be immersed into an emotional dreamscape of vocals, bodhran, gongs, bells, horns, piano, electric guitars, double bass, drums, violin and cello.
We will also be joined on tour by fellow ‘Road Records’ artist - the incredible neo- classical ensemble ‘Pillow’.
With only a limited number of tickets available, and with our last sell - out show, we urge all to purchase tickets in advance: Get yours here!
Our new single ‘The Knife’ is dropping tomorrow and we are so incredibly excited to share it with you!
The Knife
22.03.24
22.03.24
The Knife
We are so excited to announce our heaviest and most powerful song to date, 'The Knife' which is out the 22nd March under our own imprint ‘The Road Records’ Jump on the presave link in our bio to capture the track.
“It feels to be a deliverance, a freeing of stored weight and emotion; the confrontation of somatic memory, an invitation for the physical self to shed these feelings stored,” Samana say of the track. “The last section of the song is a complete amalgamation of all these components - it feels to be a sonic representation of a vast mass of water bursting from the containment of a damn, a huge transformative release, like something breaking apart and away from something else, a confrontation, a shedding of a snakes skin.”
- Tom Johnson
Over the past 5 years, we have been working incredibly hard on an all-encompassing artistic venture out here from our smallholding in Wales. To be amongst the first to hear what we have planned for the world, jump over to our website and sign yourself up to the mailing list, where we share exclusive content and works to our community.
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Watch this space!
Something very exciting is brewing.
★ Stay tuned ★
Lewes Psych Fest 2024
Here are some photographs of our performance at Lewes Psych Fest on the 27th. Thank you to all of those of you who joined us in the magical hall beneath the towering rafters.
We’re excited to bring you you a sneak preview of an upcoming live session we’ll be dropping next week, shot with our record label The Road Records, at St Michaels all angels church, the day after our charity fund raiser for suicide&co.
This teaser offers an insight into what we’ll be bringing to Lewes Psych Fest this Saturday, where we’ll be joining a wonderful line up.
We’re on in the small psych room from 4:15-5pm… there’s extremely limited capacity, so be sure to come early to ensure a transcendental experience.
Samana news dropping very soon!
BBC Wales Peace Transmission
Thank you Adam Walton for playing ‘Seven Years’ on the ‘Peace Transmission Module’ episode yesterday on BBC Radio Wales. Catch the song at 1:54:25
A collection of images taken from our all artist led concert on the 15th in support of Suicide & Co.
Photographs from the wonderful Leo Sartain from Rafiki Studios
