Nigel Shaw & Carolyn Hillyer with Riven

The wilder sister album to the ancient folk music collection Riven Inside, carrying the dynamic into some powerful dance energies and building up to a unique fusion of sound that is both beautiful and raw.

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Vintage dance music…

Since 1992 we performed dance gigs with our band, firstly as Global and later as Riven. We have mostly played at small festivals with a wild edge, as well as Glastonbury and WOMAD. A windstorm of shamanic trance dance with a hypnotic techno groove and a swirling web of rhythms…

This is the wilder sister album to the ancient folk music collection Riven Inside, carrying the dynamic into some powerful dance energies and building up to a unique fusion of sound that is both beautiful and raw.

Instruments: keyboards, samples, synthesisers, drum and percussion loops, acoustic flutes and whistles, djembe, frame drums, acoustic percussion, vocals and chants. Guest musicians: Brian Abbott (guitar), Shaun Farrenden (didge), Domenic DeCicco (additional vocals).

TRACKS: A Thousand Ways, Greenwood, Cave, Road, Resin and Root, Mudhead Clowns (Coyote Mix), Scavenger.
Album length: 58 minutes. Released in 2000.