Bird Songs for Atomic Skies

Wales born, Brighton-based instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is a celebrated champion of the finger-picked guitar. She has drawn international acclaim for her repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody her roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, inventing a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive.

Raymond is freshly signed to the Fat Possum record label and to mark the occasion has released a new single: “Bird Songs for Atomic Skies’ is a mutant rag, a blues gone awry. Lyrebirds are perched in irradiated nests and have grown new heads. Foxes bark in the night, but the barks are all wrong. This song is an assembly of sounds run through the wringer of an atomic age; New limbs are springing up by the hour.” says Gwenifer on the track.