{"title":"The Rheingans Sisters","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"start-close-in","title":"Start Close In","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Rheingans Sisters\u003c\/strong\u003e release their highly anticipated new album \u003cem\u003eStart Close In\u003c\/em\u003e. Sonically arresting, drenched in drones, and pulsing with age-old patterns of communal dancing, \u003cem\u003eStart Close In\u003c\/em\u003e continues the current rejuvenation of traditional folk music with a record steeped in minimalism, collectivism, beauty, and noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProduced by the Juno-nominated, contemporary composer Adam Pietrykowski, \u003cem\u003eStart Close In\u003c\/em\u003e comes four years after Anna and Rowan Rheingans' last album \u003cem\u003eReceiver\u003c\/em\u003e, which reached #2 in the Transglobal World Music Charts. It was one of Songlines Magazine's Top Ten Essential Folk Albums of 2020 and was described by Folk Radio as \"a masterpiece of modern folk music\" for its bewitching blend of Norwegian fiddle music, songs in Occitan, and true stories from the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn their new record, the multi-instrumentalist \u003cstrong\u003eRheingans Sisters\u003c\/strong\u003e weave between the dissonance of John Cale and the delicacy of chamber music; using violin, viola, tambourin a cordes, 5-string banjo, gourd banjo, fabuta, electric guitar, jaw harp, bones, triangle, and foot percussion. They're joined on three tracks by saxophonist Daniel Thorne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album begins with the duo's interpretation of the traditional English ballad \"\u003cem\u003eThe Devil And The Farmer's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e,\" inspired by Frankie Armstrong's 1978 subversion of the song's usually negative depiction of the female protagonist. That's complimented by the songs \"\u003cem\u003eUn Voltigeur\u003c\/em\u003e\" and \"\u003cem\u003eSi Sabiatz Drolletas\u003c\/em\u003e;\" both, in a way, warnings for women to remain independent and free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe former (still sung in the polyphonic singing communities of the Pyrenees) was translated and rewritten by Anna, who contributes her own song about \"manmade and natural things that evolve and erode as time passes\" with \"\u003cem\u003eOld Neptune\u003c\/em\u003e.\" Rowan's \"\u003cem\u003eDrink Up\u003c\/em\u003e\" seeks joy amidst our \"mundane-meets-apocalyptic\" times, while the mantra of \"\u003cem\u003eOver \u0026amp; Over Again\u003c\/em\u003e\" acts as \"a medicine; a way to cope\" with witnessing war and genocide unfold on social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven the instrumental tunes on this record, whether learned from other folk musicians, composed, or improvised, reflect a desire to return to the joy of collective movement as an antidote to anxiety about the state of the world. \"We wrote this album as if 'on stage' with the physicality and energy of performing there from the very beginning,\" says Anna. \"It's in live performance that music becomes this vital, playful, energizer. This feels closer to the collective experience of folk music as we know it - as social music, as work music, as dance music.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album takes its title from a poem by the Anglo-Irish poet and philosopher David Whyte; a work loved by the sisters because, as Rowan explains, \"It speaks to a human tendency to try and make a masterpiece when what's really needed is connecting closer to the immediate and everyday, which is also sometimes where you can find magic and multitudes of meaning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rheingans Sisters Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50449158504779,"sku":"2211961","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50449157980491,"sku":"2211960","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/92621c31-02c8-4f74-9530-05f4e8c0fe2a_c0622951_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727099721"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/the-rheingans-sisters.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}