Rebsie Fairholm vocals, 12-string guitar, piano, celtic harp, jingly things and a few other bits. Daniel Staniforth cello, guitars, just about anything imaginable (and a few things unimaginable).
My albums also feature the talents of Dick Langford, Martyn Kember-Smith (Komrade K), Steve Lang, William Shaw, Jason Gazda, Phideaux Xavier and Steafan Hannigan.
Influences
Singers who have inspired and influenced include Kate Bush, Sandy Denny, Julianne Regan, Jeff Buckley, Kirsty MacColl, Jacqui McShee, Lal Waterson, Anne Briggs, Celia Humphris, Bert Lloyd and Shirley Collins. I love many artists such as Trees, Circulus, Jethro Tull, Malicorne, David Bowie, Jah Wobble, Steeleye Span, Eliza Carthy and Phideaux.
I sing mostly dark and soulful songs, and play various instruments including 12-string guitar, celtic harp, piano, bass and penny whistle. My partner Daniel Staniforth plays cello, classical guitar and a host of other things.
SECOND ALBUM "SEVEN STAR GREEN" RELEASED 9th SEPTEMBER!
Available to order now, from Amazon, CD Baby or www.rebsiefairholm.co.uk ... you can listen to four songs from the new album on the player above.
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Also available in the US from CD Baby, Amazon.com or Snocap (see the thingy below).
I've dipped heavily into the well of ancestral and faery inspiration with a re-imagining of British traditional songs, and I write songs of my own and with Daniel which are often rooted in something ancient but branch out into something else. This is the dark and ethereal side of folk music with a psychedelic edge.
My partnership with Daniel, who is a writer, poet, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist and releases alt rock albums under the name of Luna Trick, is taking ever more interesting and alchymical directions. We're busy working on a spin-off project called Alchymical Muse, which combines both our voices in a kind of Dead Can Dancey mystical frisson. Have a listen to that on our MySpace profile!
Posted here are four tracks from the newly released "Seven Star Green" album: a couple of English folk songs ... Let No Man Steal Your Thyme and Our Captain Cried. There's also an original, Molotov Spongecake, based on the story of Victor Grayson, a parliamentary whistleblower who went missing (presumed murdered) in 1920. The Cursing Song was written by Dreampower author R J Stewart (recorded with permission) and although penned in 1975 it now becomes chillingly topical as the economy collapses around us.
Then there's a couple from my debut album "Mind The Gap": Blackbirds and Thrushes and The Unquiet Grave, both English folk songs with a psychedelic treatment.
Finally, Dance to the Hills is a Luna Trick song (Daniel takes the lead vocal here) and The Gardener Child, orchestrated by Daniel, is a taster of yet another forthcoming release.
We take the music into our souls and then let it all splurge out however it wants. There's no more or less to it than that.
Outside music, I'm a plant breeder and an expert on heritage vegetables ... my pride and joy being the creation of a red-podded pea (I mean really deep crimson) and a sugarsnap pea with rainbow coloured seeds. No GM involved, it's all natural genes and shamanism! Feel free to check out my Daughter of the Soil site.
"Rebsie has the most beguiling of voices – she really is something special. Just beautiful, uncluttered, refreshing." - ORGAN Magazine
"absolutely delightful" - Stuart Maconie, BBC 6 Music
You are quite welcome for the support and for the amazon.com review. Thank you for all the great music and for helping me get that book inscribed. Your new album was temporarily out of stock at amazon.com (US) when I tried to order it. I hope that means it's a huge seller. I also hope it means it will be back in stock very soon!
Hi Rebsie Listen to the whisper on the wind it speaks of times gone and times yet to come. Thank you for being my friend and for being you, the you that this world needs at this time.
Listen to the whisper on the wind it speaks of times gone and times yet to come. Thank you for being my friend and for being you, the you that this world needs at this time.
aw thank YOU for the lovely comment, rebsie!! so sorry for the late reply... i'll be carrying on enjoying your beautiful tunes for ages to come i'm sure :) can't wait to hear more xx
hi rebsie :) thanks so much for the friend request - it was lovely to talk with you at louise's radio show party yesterday evening, and it's even loveier hearing your music!! it's absolutely beautiful!! i hope you continue to enjoy mine too, and that you're having a lovely day xx
Now after listening to Seven Star Green I have to say it is fantastic, what a pleasure to turn out the lights and be surrounded by this wonderful music and your voice! Thanks!
I got Seven Star Green this evening and have been listening and celebrating all night!
The music and your singing are beyond beautiful, the sound is top-notch, and the album artwork is gorgeous! (Yes, the inclusion of my song is a bonus to me, personally, but i would love this album with or without it.)
Honestly, i can't stop listening. It's perfection.
Thanks for the kind words. In fact, we are performing at the National Libraries Conference this year - a great honour. And R will be in Cheltenham on 10 Oct, both noon and evening, doing his thing. Hope the recording career is OK, and looking forward to hearing latest fruits.
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I'm honored to have you on my friends list now.. I like what you do with Daniel a lot!! And to be honest I haven't gone any further then your collabs with him.. but I surely will when the time lets me.. you have a beautiful voice and I'm looking forward to your music.
Just dropping by to let you know the new Majestic cd ARRIVAL is now available. Hope all is going well for you. Make sure to stop by and check out our samples. :)
~Jeff ----------------------
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