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RALEGH LONG – ” Hoverance “

Posted: January 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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taken from the mini album”Demented Beauty” Ralegh Long is an English Singer-Songwriter. His critically acclaimed debut album, “Hoverance”, was released on Gare du Nord records in April 2015. It is a beautifully pastoral record, in the tradition of Bill Fay and Nick Drake. The Guardian praised it for its ‘twilit ambience and demented beauty’, and in a 4 star review MOJO celebrated its ‘spooky pastoralism’. 

To write the album, Long left London and returned to the surrounding countryside where he grew up. Sitting at a piano overlooking the fields he wrote a debut album suffused with natural imagery and mysticism. He then returned to London and gathered a group of friends to record the album. The cast of collaborators includes Tom Dougall of the band TOY on guitar, Jack Hayter (ex-Hefner) on pedal steel, string-arranger Louis-Phillipe (El records, The Clientele) and chamber group A Little Orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLHMGP_m-U

Long then spent the summer of 2015 touring, culminating in a headline show for Parallel Lines at St. Pancras Old Church – where he was backed by A little Orchestra. Tracks from Hoverance received airplay on BBC6, from DJs including Lauren Laverne, Guy Garvey and Gideon Coe, BBC Scotland, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. The album’s opening track, ‘Gulls Hovering’ was chosen as a ‘Headphones Moment’ by Laverne. Long is currently writing and recording an E.P due for release early 2016.