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 collaborator Daniel Staniforth plays cello, classical guitar and a host of other things.
My debut album Mind The Gap is available now, featuring special guest appearances by Phideaux and Steafan Hannigan.
"a shimmering masterpiece" - Terrascope
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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, tentatively called Alchymical Muse, which combines both our voices in a kind of Dead Can Dancey mystical frisson. More details about that soon!
NEW ALBUM "SEVEN STAR GREEN" DUE OUT IN AUGUST!
On the player above are four new songs from the forthcoming album ...
Posted here are four tracks from the forthcoming "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
Hi, Thanks for joining my "Myspace Friends, always nice to make new friends. Please be sure to visit my Profile, any comments are most welcome. Always happy to chat....
Hey Rebsie, that's great news! BTW: did you receive my mail which I sent a couple of months ago to all the collaborators on my new album? I received such few reactions that I'm afraid it didn't reach most of the people. Or perhaps I'm just afraid to confess my declining popularity :-) Cheers, Walt
Hi Rebsie! I'm glad to see you have a new CD coming out! I am a proud owner of your last one (I think it was your last one). You are VERY talented!!!!!
"Combining the mystical and human dimensions as two aspects of the same reality, Christmas glories in common earthy things 'charged' with the Infinite." --Mariann Burke, 1993.
hey thanks for adding me sister i love your music its both beautiful and surreal i love it. hope you dig my music? honored to be friends. hope life is well. Peace
