Edgelarks fly in on the tailwind of BBC award winning duo Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin. The new band name comes with anew project, taking the roots of their previous work - British traditional musics, Indian classical slide guitar, stomping roots beatbox harmonica party; adds a strong stem of original writing; and runs wilder with each gig.
definition: Edgelark (verb) – to sing about or from the margins
This album is about transitional spaces. Liminal places, people and times, the straddling of boundaries and thresholds; crossroads and borderlands; travellers and refugees; dusk and dawn. The pause between an old way and a new. The idea that, despite often being places of marginalisation, these are also places of change – and therefore places of hope. That, when social norms break down, when you are between two established worlds, there is a chance for new perspectives. That in the end, we have far more in common than things that divide us, because we are all liminal – we are all standing on the threshold of tomorrow. We are all just passing through.
credits
releases October 6, 2017
Hannah Martin – lead vocals, banjo, tenor guitar, fiddle, viola, shruti box
Phillip Henry – vocals, Dobro, Weissenborn, Chatturangui, harmonica, acoustic and electric guitar, tenor guitar, electric lap steel, shruti box
John Elliott – drums, percussion, piano, Moog synth, harmonium
Lukas Drinkwater – electric bass, double bass
Niall Robinson - tabla
Recorded May 2017 at Cube Recording, Cornwall.
Produced by Phillip Henry and John Elliott.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Gareth Young.
Assistant engineer Matt Conybeare.
All lyrics by Hannah Martin, all music by Martin / Henry, except What's The Life of a Man? and Estren, trad. arr. Martin / Henry.
Photography and sleeve design by Elly Lucas.
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