“Slow New Year” new single from Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon
DEBUT 2xLP ALBUM OUT NOVEMBER 01, 2024
New trio Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon release the second single “Slow New Year” off their upcoming debut album First Sounds.
“This piece was what originally spurred this album into being - a bass fiddle tune that sounded far too lonely sounding for it to be played alone. I picked up the phone and proposed we make an album. We recorded this piece in one or two takes with very little discussion beforehand.” - Richard Reed Parry
The LP collects nine compositions with dynamic minimalism, sweeping crescendos, and rich harmonies. The expressive instrumentation, experimental undertones, and ambient textures are crafted with expert musicianship and technical symbiosis. Richard Reed Parry explains, “In Montreal, October 1999, the three of us played music with each other for the first time. As we began to improvise together, we felt a shared, wordless musical language emerge right away, somehow intuitive and familiar from the very start.
We experimented and played together often at that time - Montreal was and still is a very creative and multi-faceted artistic hive of activity. The musical chemistry we found together was formative in each of the bands we went on to form and musical collaborations we pursued, but we never made a recording of our original trio and its unique, intimate and explorative sound.
Decades of friendship and many bands later, in the heart of the first pandemic winter the three of us got together in a room and made our first album as an ensemble. Picking up exactly where we left off years earlier, we began fashioning compositions that immediately tapped into the same musical language we had discovered between us so many years earlier.”
First Sounds comes out Friday, November 01, 2024 release via Envision Records in North America, and through One Little Independent for the UK and the rest of the world.
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