Gwenifer Raymond + Buck Curran
Schedule
Thu Oct 17 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
70-71 Rose Hill Terrace, BN1 4JL Brighton, United Kingdom | Brighton, EN
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Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond and American singer-songwriter-guitarist Buck Curran celebrate the exhibition of artwork of Steffen Basho-Junghans which will be showcased on the night alongside the music.‘She is legion. This Welsh musician plays really loud and really fast too, like a vengeful bluegrass musician conjuring up roiling fury, then dropping into languorous eddies, switching between paces with pin-sharp precision.’ The Guardian
Gwenifer Raymond is one of this country's most-noted fingerstyle guitarists. She has been compared to the likes of John Fayhey and is signed to the multi-Grammy award nominated label Tompkins Square.
Gwenifer Raymond began playing guitar at the age of eight shortly after having been first exposed to punk and grunge. After years of playing around the Welsh valleys in various punk outfits she began listening more to pre-war blues musicians as well as Appalachian folk players, eventually leading into the guitar players of the so called ‘American primitive genre’. It was then that Gwenifer began writing her own moody and often-times manic original compositions and started playing shows around the UK.
When she signed to Tompkins Square, she released her first single ‘Sometimes There’s Blood’ in October of that year and released her debut album 'You Never Were Much of a Dancer' in June of 2018 to worldwide acclaim. What followed was much international touring. Gwenifer headlined shows across much of Europe, debuted at several summer festivals including Green Man, Black Deer, Supernormal, Shambala to name but a fraction. She also played a number of support slots for well known artists such as Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, Xylouris White and Charlie Parr.
In early 2020 Gwenifer was all set to get into the studio to record her follow up album when the minor inconvenience of a worldwide pandemic complicated matters slightly, and so she was forced to record and produce the album herself in a make-shift bedroom studio at her home in Brighton, UK. ‘Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain’ was released in November of that year and received tremendous praise, especially as something of a transformation from her previous album, moving from a more traditional folk style into somewhat more avant-garde and complex compositions.
BUCK CURRAN
Buck Curran (born May 23, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter-guitarist, record producer, painter and guitar maker. Curran's acoustic and electric guitar playing is characterized by the extensive use of low alternate tunings, slide, Ebow, reverb, manipulating string overtones and dynamics creating haunting voice-like timbres on the instrument.
‘tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence’ ~ jennifer Kelly/Dusted Mag
‘The mournful, elegant tones that neo-folk artist Buck Curran draws from voice and guitar have a capacity to linger in the air long after the notes have faded. Recorded at the American guitarist's home in northern Italy shortly before the area went into lockdown, 'No Love Is Sorrow' is a beautiful piece of work, interspersing space, atmospheric instrumentals with more complete songs like spooky western "Ghost On The Hill', the ballad "Deep In The Lovin' Arms of My Babe'" and the title track. Curran sings with the gravelly decorum of Mark Lanegan but the songs remain, bewitchingly, just over the next horizon’ ~ Peter Watts/UNCUT Magazine
Curran’s music invokes swarming natural forces, looking for the borderline between the real and the sublime and, maybe, the supernatural. ~ Jesse Jarnow/Relix Magazine
THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER | 7PM | £12 / £8 CONC. / PWYC
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Where is it happening?
70-71 Rose Hill Terrace, BN1 4JL Brighton, United Kingdom, 73 Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton, BN1 4JL, United Kingdom,Brighton and HoveEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
