Alasdair Roberts & Fredrik Rasten – Two-Day Residency w/ Brigid Mae Power + Burd Ellen

Delighted to host a residency with the duo of Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts and Norwegian experimental musician Fredrik Rasten ahead of the release of their new album, Seven Weathers. Across two nights, Roberts and Rasten will perform both solo and as a duo, alongside appearances from Brigid Mae Power and Burd Ellen.

On Seven Weathers, their forthcoming double album for Drag City Records, Roberts and Rasten focus on traditional Scottish narrative ballads, typically of long duration, where slowly evolving musical materials build up throughout the strophic verse-structure to emphasise the storytelling. They choose ballads with care, favouring time-transcending narrative themes that both bear witness to the day and age of their origin and are relevant to our times, be that politically, culturally or ethically. Both sing and play a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, Roberts’s clear and unadorned vocal delivery blending with Rasten’s sensibilities of just intonation tuning and timbral qualities of sound.