The Ruby Chord

Description

Listen closely, close your eyes, let yourself be carried away by the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and get ready to travel 500 years into the future thanks to Richard Dawson’s upcoming album, The Ruby Cord. Available on November 18 on Weird World (Domino), Richard Dawson’s new album is the final part of a trilogy that began with the pre-medieval world of “Peasant,” then was brought back to our time with “2020” and will end in the future with “The Ruby Cord.” After his recent collaborations with Finnish metal pioneers Circle, and his work with Hen Ogledd, Dawson dives back into his own universe with seven tracks that take us into an unreal, fantastical and sometimes sinister future where social mores have changed, where ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated... a place where there is no longer any need to engage with anyone other than oneself and one’s own imagination. The opening track “The Hermit” is Dawson’s most ambitious work to date, an epic narrative stretching its limits in a 40-minute piece with a sprawling atmosphere that acts as a bridge to the rest of The Ruby Cord. If The Hermit’s mantra is “what happens if we push it a little further?” the answer to that question is: probably Dawson’s best songwriting to date.