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BR005: Jim Ghedi ‘A Hymn For Ancient Land’

Born in Sheffield before moving around various parts of Derbyshire, Shropshire and Scotland and then settling in Moss Valley - an abandoned and forgotten area on the edgelands of South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire - it makes perfectsense that 26 year old Jim Ghedi’s music feels both fluidly transient yet also deeply rooted to a sense of place.         Nature permeates through his second album ‘A Hymn For Ancient Land’ from start to finish, gliding through its core like a bubbling brook. The subtle use of the instruments (guitar, double bass, violin, cello, harp, trumpet, piano) and beauty of the arrangements create something almost tangible – like a light dew on the tip ends of grass or the sticky moisture  of well trampled soil.

“I wanted to bring in wider instrumentation to somehow resemble the landscapes which musically I could hear in my head, It was at this point I became fixated on connecting the two worlds of classical and contemporary folk” says Jim of the album’s birthing period. Winding guitar instrumentals lead you up forgotten paths, gently whirring strings along rolling hillsides, the drums beat like the faint sounds of thunder on the horizon and the rich hum of the ambience hangs like a gentle morning fog.

Listen/purchase: A Hymn For Ancient Land by Jim Ghedi

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Tickets from: http://juliemariebyrne.com/tour

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Cian Nugent is a guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland who combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s & '70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. He releases his music on the fine Woodsist record label.

Jim Ghedi is a 6 & 12 string guitarist and folk singer from a mining village on the outskirts of Sheffield, England. For two years he has toured the United Kingdom in support of his debut album ’Home Is Where I Exist, Now To Live & Die’. Having amassed a collection of material inspired by the rural communities and landscapes visited over the last year he's currently putting the finishing touches to his next collection of songs - combining finger-style Guitar composition, orchestral parts and Traditional Folk Song - we will be releasing his new album this autumn.

Basin Rock DJs will be playing all sorts of records before, in between and after. Non of which you’ll probably be able to class as 'folk'.

£5 On The Door or tickets here https://www.skiddle.com/e/13009416

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Tickets: https://www.nadiareid.com/tour-dates/

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Julie Byrne, who is responsible for the first release on Basin Rock, is in town May 27th as part of a wider European jaunt with support from dbh and intermitting rhymes from Knot Lewis. With Basin Rock DJs before and after.

Tickets: https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Oldham/The-Golden-Lion/Julie-Byrne--Basin-Rock-DJs/12924959/

The poster is a nod to Julie’s role as a  Manhattan Park Ranger during the summer of 2016, who are credited on the sleeve of Not Even Happiness.

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Tickets: http://juliemariebyrne.com/tour

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'Preservation' is our second release, due for release 3rd March 2017, but with copies early available at this night, as Nadia Reid starts her European tour in Todmorden. Full dates here: http://nadiareid.com/

There will be a playback of our first release Julie Byrne's 'Not Even Happiness' earlier in the evening. Along with Basin Rock DJs. Artwork for the launch poster was kindly provided by Gareth Bedford from Dunedin in New Zealand and is of Saint Clair Beach in Dunedin, close to where Nadia lives on the South Island. Check out his work here: http://inkbig.co.nz/ Doors 7.30pm / £5 on the door 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1521950481153884/

Nadia will be on stage in plenty of time for the last train - around 9PM - it's Wednesday afterall! 

Can highly recommend Munchitos Burritos downstairs on a Wednesday as well.

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Tickets: http://www.roughtradenyc.com/event/1395779-julie-byrne-brooklyn

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Tickets from http://nadiareid.com/

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BR002: Nadia Reid ‘Preservation’

New Zealander Nadia Reid's music traces the sharp mountain peaks, azure coastline, and mirrored images of the land and sky that pinpoint her home country’s vast open landscapes.

18 months and 10,000kms travelled since many needles first dropped on her debut LP Listen To Formation Look For The Signs, Nadia's vision has widened on new album Preservation, whilst throwing a fresh perspective on the beauty of her homeland.

Through cavernous lows, blissful highs and globe-trotting adventures, music has been by Nadia’s side the entire way. Whether in New Zealand’s familiar rugged beaches and mountains, brutally windy Wellington, her hometown harbour Port Chalmers or the untrodden territory of faceless hotel rooms or the jungle in Kuala Lumpur, every episode of loss, heartbreak, and disappointment glimmers throughout. 

Returning to the production skills of Ben Edwards in his Christchurch based Sitting Room studios and long term guitarist Sam Taylor, this time around everything is rubbed in more grit and channels Nadia’s deftly profound take on life and whilst we already knew it, her own realisation that it is music which drives her. “I remember recording the tracks, it was about 11 at night, and I felt almost transcendental, as if I was out of my body, singing these words to myself. That’s what these songs are; a confession to my future and past self.”

https://soundcloud.com/hellonadiareid/the-arrow-the-aim

Purchase here: http://www.basinrock.co.uk/nadia-reid-preservation.html

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BR001: Julie Byrne ‘Not Even Happiness’

Often what comes naturally cannot be driven by speed and time. Julie Byrne's second album, Not Even Happiness, has evolved at its own pace. It spans recollections of bustling roadside diners, the stars over the high desert, the aching weariness of change, the wildflowers of the California coast, and the irresolvable mysteries of love. Her new album vividly archives what would have otherwise been lost to the road.

Whether witnessing the Pacific Northwest for the first time ('Melting Grid'), the morning sky in the mountains of Boulder ('Natural Blue'), or a journey fragrant with rose water; reading Frank O'Hara aloud from the passengers seat during a drive through the Utah desert into the rainforest of Washington State ('The Sea As It Glides'), Not Even Happiness is Julie's beguilingly ode to the fringes of life.           "The title of the album comes from a letter I wrote to a friend after a trip to Riis Park's 'The People's Beach', it was the first warm afternoon of the year. I walked alongside the Atlantic as the Earth came alive for the sun. There was a   palpable sense of emergence to everything. I felt it in myself too, and remember thinking I would trade that feeling for nothing... not even happiness." 

https://soundcloud.com/juliebyrne/natural-blue-1

Purchase here: http://www.basinrock.co.uk/julie-byrne-not-even-happiness.html

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Nadia Reid's songs trace the sharp mountain peaks, azure coastline, and mirrored images of the land and sky that pinpoint her home country of New Zealand's vast open landscapes, creating her own enchanting wonderworld through a gloriously fresh and eloquent new folk sound. Each of Nadia’s songs explores the elements; truly organic, her vocals ebb, flow and soar but are always ignited with fire from the gut. Her lyrics clearly reference lush landscapes but equally reflect alienation provided by the surrounding Pacific Ocean. Music that moves surreptitiously between sparse and fragile melancholia to beautifully brutal lyricism with a philosophical maturity that bellies her young years. http://nadiareid.com/

Jim Ghedi is a musician & composer based in Sheffield who explores fingerpicking-style instrumental Guitar composition with a wide repertoire of influences ranging from African music, American Primitive, Spanish and classical music of Northern Europe, where he has much time travelling honing his sound. http://www.jimghedi.com/

Basin Rock djs will be playing High Life, Low Lives and other radical outsiders in between - until late.Doors 7pm / £5 adv (link to follow)Acts stage times last train friendly.

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Saturday 7th May upstairs at the Golden Lion, Todmorden, £ 5 otd. Doors 7pm

DANIEL BACHMAN Guitar lines and licks that resemble the earth itself, at its most pristine, delicate, yet also primal and overpowering. Pieces move, ascending and descending in the same way that the clouds roll through blue skies, the same way brooks babble down rocky fronts carving their paths in the land. 

DEAN MCPHEE combines clean, chiming melodic lines with deep layers of decaying delay and cavernous echo which draws together from British Folk, Dub, Kosmische, Post Rock, Mali Blues and Modal Jazz.

SOPHIE COOPER experiments with conventional song through psychedelic pop, weird noise and drone, with a dreamlike quality - sounds and vocals drifting in and out of clarity. 

https://soundcloud.com/sophie-cooper/02-once-my-heart-was-blind

Basin Rock djs will be playing High Life, Low Lives and other radical outsiders in between - until late.

https://www.facebook.com/events/544349629072198/

*image on poster is taken from a rockslide report on the Occonneechee Mountain, North Carolina near Daniel’s home