Divine Schism: Gwenifer Raymond + Oliver Collier + Pete Kakara
Schedule
Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Common Ground, 37-38 Little Clarendon St, Oxford OX1 2HF | Oxford, EN
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Delighted to be working with Gwenifer Raymond again on a brand new show! She has a new album out in September and we can’t wait to hear it!Some info on the new record:
Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond, is set to announce her third studio album, to be released September 5th on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. As celestial drones and mutant folk meet a frenetic blues that bends and twists like space-time, on her new album Raymond finds herself evoking the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
Raymond, via the circuitous trans-Atlantic journey of her demo - signed to San Francisco’s Tompkins Square Records in 2017, with who she released her first two albums. Her first proper gig was at the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose Festival in Maryland, where she hung with heroes such as Glenn Jones, Marisa Anderson, Daniel Bachman and Peter Walker and was presented by Henry Kaiser with a 1880s Joseph Bohmann guitar which she feels may be possessed by some fingerpicking demon.
The Guardian has described her as a “profound talent” whilst The Observer praised her “awe-inspiring technique and intense musicality”, and Uncut Magazine has championed her “fast-developing talents as a composer of eerie menace.” She has since toured Europe, the US and Canada with the likes of Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, The Handsome Family, Lankum, Charlie Parr, Richard Dawson, Ryley Walker, and Squid.
The album will announce along with the release of the lead single ‘Jack Parson’s Blues’ on Thursday June 5th.
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Where is it happening?
Common Ground, 37-38 Little Clarendon St, Oxford OX1 2HF, 25 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JH, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
