Dreamer Awake

Rachel Sermanni presents Dreamer Awake, her fifth album and first for Navigator Records (featuring artists like Katherine Priddy, Kitty Macfarlane, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Bellowhead). Hailing from the Scottish highlands, Sermanni is an enchanting singer-songwriter whose performance and lyrics draw from a deep well of mysticism, dreams, nature, and the simple-complex experience of being human.

A contemporary folk musician influenced by a wealth of genres including jazz, rock, old-time, and traditional, Dreamer Awake was recorded at Middle Farm Studios in Devon with co-producer Peter Miles. Recording live to tape with jazz improvisers, the sessions were conducted with an almost Lynchian approach, allowing Sermanni to flow through the experience like a dream.

The result is an album that captures the intimacy of the room and the immediacy of these songs that transform thought, memory, and emotion into wondrous light. Channelling the metamorphic experience of becoming a mother and processing the demise of a long-term relationship, Sermanni dove deep into her psyche and returned with songs that have a sharpness, an acuity of feeling, and that capture the fluidity of our mind and the depth of our emotional experience.

Described by critics as a "Folk noir gem" (MOJO), "Stately, poetic" (CLASH), and "Folk of the Highest Order" (Time Out), Rachel Sermanni has been making music for over a decade, pushing boundaries and experimenting with different musical textures while maintaining the raw emotional connection that defines her music.

Rachel Sermanni has toured the globe, played alongside artists such as Mumford & Sons, Fink, Ron Sexsmith, John Grant, The Staves, Karine Polwart, The Maes, and many more at venues and festivals all over. She also runs a songwriting workshop called Cultivating A Creative Life and her podcast, Rachel Sermanni's Finger That Points To The Moon, similarly explores her relationship to creativity and inspiration, with the hope that it will help point in the direction of truth for herself and those listening.