Rachael Dadd

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Strike Our Scythes 00:00 Tools
Make A Sentence 00:00 Tools
Cut my roots 00:00 Tools
Wake It 00:00 Tools
Sticking In Pins 00:00 Tools
Balloon 00:00 Tools
Claw and Tooth 00:00 Tools
Bounce The Ball 00:00 Tools
Table 00:00 Tools
I Am Your Home 00:00 Tools
What Have You Made 00:00 Tools
Elephants Swimming 00:00 Tools
Our Arms 00:00 Tools
Tap The Sap 00:00 Tools
Animal Mineral 00:00 Tools
Window 00:00 Tools
Ant and Bee 1 00:00 Tools
Three 00:00 Tools
Happiness 00:00 Tools
Arrows 00:00 Tools
Let It Rise 00:00 Tools
Come Together 00:00 Tools
Rice Triangle 00:00 Tools
Moth In The Motor 00:00 Tools
until we fall apart 00:00 Tools
Age Of The Clock 00:00 Tools
Following The Geese 00:00 Tools
Polly Vaughan 00:00 Tools
Until We Fall Apart 1 00:00 Tools
Tsubomi 00:00 Tools
Caught in the Weight 00:00 Tools
In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Beacon 00:00 Tools
The Distance 00:00 Tools
River Swimmers 00:00 Tools
Hedgehog 00:00 Tools
Good Good Light 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Fall In Love Again 00:00 Tools
Tower Tower 00:00 Tools
Time Makers 00:00 Tools
Ant & Bee 00:00 Tools
What Will Be 1 00:00 Tools
Animal 00:00 Tools
Anchoring 00:00 Tools
Join In 00:00 Tools
The Wind And The Mountain 00:00 Tools
Get Your Cake And Your Spade 00:00 Tools
What Will Be 00:00 Tools
Two islands 00:00 Tools
And So It Wells Up 00:00 Tools
After The Ant Fight 00:00 Tools
Two Sisters 00:00 Tools
Semolina 00:00 Tools
Palaeontologist 00:00 Tools
The Incident Of The Capsized Boat 00:00 Tools
O Wind 00:00 Tools
Elaine (In The Kitchen With Matches) 00:00 Tools
Ships 00:00 Tools
Language of water 00:00 Tools
Super Moon Machine 00:00 Tools
My Wealth That Is You 00:00 Tools
Table MP3 00:00 Tools
Knew Your Hands 00:00 Tools
Two Coiled Springs 00:00 Tools
Connected to the Rock 00:00 Tools
The Wires 00:00 Tools
Knot 00:00 Tools
The Scientist 00:00 Tools
Owl Ears Wait 00:00 Tools
No Sleep in the Meadow 00:00 Tools
Your Storms 00:00 Tools
Swimming for Gold 00:00 Tools
What We Wait For 00:00 Tools
Finger On The Button 00:00 Tools
And when I cannot dream 00:00 Tools
O-mend-o-darn-o 00:00 Tools
Aurora 00:00 Tools
The Party 00:00 Tools
Hawk For A Heart 00:00 Tools
Bold Bear 00:00 Tools
Iron Out 00:00 Tools
One January Day 00:00 Tools
Telephone 00:00 Tools
Føroyar 00:00 Tools
Man From Thursday 00:00 Tools
foroyar 00:00 Tools
Yuki Dayo 00:00 Tools
The Carpenter 00:00 Tools
Grandmas Hands 03:08 Tools
And So It Wells Up 1 00:00 Tools
Following the Geese 1 00:00 Tools
Get Your Cake and Your Spade 1 00:00 Tools
TWO Sisters (Traditional) 00:00 Tools
Birds & Horses 00:00 Tools
Age of the Clock 2 00:00 Tools
Swan Song 00:00 Tools
Two Sisters (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
Grandma's Hands 00:00 Tools
Tap The Slap 00:00 Tools
Archipelago 00:00 Tools
Pigeons 00:00 Tools
Sweetest In The Land 00:00 Tools
Tap the Sap We Resonate 00:00 Tools
Baa Baa Black sheep 00:00 Tools
A Happy Accident 00:00 Tools
Faces 00:00 Tools
o My Stars 00:00 Tools
Make A Sentance 00:00 Tools
Window - Banjo 00:00 Tools
This Whole Town 00:00 Tools
o mend o darn o 00:00 Tools
Solace 00:00 Tools
Elaine 00:00 Tools
Birds And Horses 00:00 Tools
Spark Illuminate 00:00 Tools
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Whether it be by handing out cake or percussive pots of rice to shake, Rachael puts her audience at ease - she's had plenty of practice, having toured England and Japan numerous times, and played festival slots since 2001 including an appearance on Glastonbury’s Acoustic Stage with one of her collaborative projects, Whalebone Polly (with Kate Stables of This is the Kit). She enjoys performing in intimate settings the most, but can adapt well, having proved this when she performed a series of shows in Japan, each to an audience of 3000. Rachael makes most of her music by telling everyone that she's going to bed, and then sneaking off to her trusty 8-track and plugging herself in. Her songs sparkle with a wide-eyed wonder and exhibit a fascination for the everyday magic of life. Soon after stepping foot in Bristol in 2003, Rachael gained the reputation by Venue Magazine as, “the author of a deft, charismatic brand of folk music". Since then she has turned the heads of Rob Da Bank, Bob Harris and Huw Stevens, as well as those in other fields such as artist Yoshitomo Nara. Her last album The World Outside is in a Cupboard was described as “absolutely staggering” by Julian Peck of Sunday Best Recordings. She has been adopted as part of the Fence Collective’s extended family, and has been invited to be part of several compilation releases, the most recent being Little Things on Indy label Flau, from which The Wire Magazine picked out her contribution as one that “appeals most of all”. Her latest album After the Ant Fight, recorded with Ali Chant (who has worked with John Parish, Howe Gelb and PJ Harvey), is her third album to be released on Japanese label Angel’s Egg and is her most varied and exciting work to date. On it she invites her Bristol friends to play, leading her impromptu penguin café orchestra down a lyrical and melodic path. On the album, not only does Rachael turn her own hands to piano, banjo, guitar, clarinet and harmonium, but too turns them to the album’s sleeve, appropriately dressing it in exquisite ant-depicting needlework. In this way she maintains a certain D.I.Y ethos that has been apparent since her very first 4-track recordings complete with hand-drawn covers. “Rachael’s song writing is atypical – the obvious moves are avoided in favor of the element of surprise. ‘Table’ in particular is stunning…a Philip Glass-y piece of minimalism that rises to a peak on the back of a just-so mix of piano, harmonium, clarinet and one-take drums, then falls away again…the kind of freshness that draws you back for another listen, and another.” Jumped Up Pantry Boy, http://pantry.wordpress.com/ "The true star of a stage positively brimming with quality. Authentic, unpretentious and lightened by Ms Dadd's loveable persona, the bands ethereal folk seduced an audience already spoilt with highlights. Sumptuous harmonies, pastoral melodies and banana grins abound." Venue Magazine "This LP will be filled with the same kind of magical, bewitching tunes as Føroyar, with vocal hooks that send thrilling shivers sprinting across your nerve endings and sink you into those hot joyful flushes that only come with the experience of something quite unique." Stool Pigeon Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.