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.

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.

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