The Ruby Chord

Description

Tend your ear, close your eyes, let yourself be carried away by the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future thanks to the upcoming album by Richard Dawson, The Ruby Cord. Available on November 18 at 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 conclude in the future with "The Ruby Cord." After recent collaborations with Finnish metal pioneers, Circle, and his work with Hen Ogledd, Dawson immerses himself back into his universe with seven tracks that take us into an unreal, fantastic, and sometimes sinister future where social mores have changed, where ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated... a place where one no longer needs 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 tentacular atmosphere that acts as a gateway to the rest of The Ruby Cord. If the mantra of The Hermit is "what happens if we push a little further?" the answer to that question is: probably the best songwriting of Dawson to date.