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Review: 'DADD, RACHAEL'
'We Resonate'   

-  Label: 'Talitres'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '17th November 2014'

Our Rating:
Partly recorded in her front room in Bristol, there is more than a hint of homespun theatricals on this record which was made with a cast of friends chosen for their skills as "intuitive improvisers and multi-instrumentalists".

Rachael Dadd's brand of playful pop'n'folk is English to the bone but draws upon eclectic and experimental music from Japan, a country with which she seems to have a special affinity with. For visual proof of this, check out the video to the single, Strike Our Scythes, which depicts a merry making bunch of woodland folk dressed in kimonos.

Dadd has a childlike joy for phonics, so savours the sound of the word Three and the simple alliteration of Bounce The Ball to the extent that the lyrics to the latter song of this name consists solely of these words.

Her pure, sometimes shrill, voice combines with other conventional or invented instruments including typewriters, prepared piano, ukulele, clarinets and homemade xylophone.

The tweeness factor is relatively high although fortunately it is balanced by the artist's recognition that to make something resonate, you must have a blend of light and dark.



Rachael Dadd's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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DADD, RACHAEL - We Resonate