The Ruby Cord
Pop in your earpiece, close your eyes and embrace the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future as Richard Dawson returns with…The Ruby Cord. These seven tracks plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated; a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. It’s a leap into a future that is well within reach, in some cases already here.
The latest from the ambitious British musician is a grim vision of the future: a crumbling, corroding monument that feels strangely devoid of a soul.
The Newcastle Upon Tyne avant-folk songwriter delivers his most ambitious compositions to date in this conclusion to a…
British freak folk hero Richard Dawson makes music that often appears to have a strongly improvisational slant, yet a careful look at his work makes clear there's a grand design behind it all.
A 40-minute preamble gets in the way as the Newcastle singer-songwriter concludes his momentous trilogy
The Ruby Cord by Richard Dawson: another ambitious, world-building triumph of esoteric songwriting from the Geordie genius
English folk songwriter Richard Dawson scales new heights with his experimental, exploratory album