Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday after a walk with The Return Of The Rivers by United Bible Studies, released on cassette by Cruel Nature Records in 2022.
There are a lot of releases by Irish collective United Bible Studies, and a lot of stylistic ground covered in their two-decade run to date. A lot of it might reasonably be described as 'free folk', which can mean a lot of things – rarely, though, will it sound as lush and plangent as the two sidelong pieces on this cassette released by Cruel Nature. Violin, piano and sax combine for 40 minutes of ambient/jazz/drone minimalism.' The Quietus, Noel Gardner
With United Bible Studies, Colohan gets closer to the core of drone, and on The Return of the Rivers we are met with two compositions that mix elements of jazz and fractured folk into something protracted and forlorn. SUN13
https://united-bible-studies.bandcamp.com/album/the-return-of-the-rivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgE46H1Td-w&list=RDMgE46H1Td-w&start_radio=1
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