Rachel Sermanni Dreamer Awake Vinyl LP Ultra Clear Colour 2023

"‘Dreamer Awake’ is a remarkably stunning album from one of Scotland’s most talented songwriters, Rachel Sermani. It is an Autumnal wonder of an album, with all the warmth and comfort of an open fire, that is tinged by the sadness of shortening days! FFO Laura Marling and Joni Mitchell."

"An album full of beauty & alchemy and a strong favourite amongst staff & customers alike."

"Gorgeous Scottish folk which cultivates feelings so warm and familiar, but in a fashion that only Rachel Sermanni could do; carving her own unique path within the genre which is both lyrically and musically embedded in her roots, childhood memories and home – all extremely personal and vulnerable concepts. This album feels like an embrace after a hard day, a home-cooked meal on a cold winter’s evening, a starry sky on a clear night, driving home for the holidays and all of life’s simplest pleasures and innocent moments of witnessing a meeting between the divine and the material world."

Ultra Clear Colour Vinyl

Tracklist:

1. Dreamer Awake
2. Choosing Me
3. Jacob
4. Grace
5. Of Autumn Gold
6. True Love Lets Go
7. In Her Place
8. Big Desire
9. Liminal
10. Death
11. Mermaids
12. Killer Line
13. Looking Around

'Dreamer Awake' is the ffth album from Rachel Sermanni, her frst for Navigator Records (Katherine Priddy, Kitty Macfarlane, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Bellowhead)

Hailing from the Scottish highlands, Sermanni is an enchanting singer-songwriter, whose performance and lyrics draw from a deep well of mysticism, dreams, nature and the simple-complex experience of being human; a contemporary folk musician infuenced by a wealth of genres including jazz, rock, old- time and traditional.

'Dreamer Awake,' was recorded at Middle Farm Studios, Devon with co-producer, Peter Miles. Recording live to tape with people that, "most of the time, are jazz improvisers," the sessions were conducted with an almost Lynchian approach, with Sermanni choosing "to fow through [the experience] like a dream". The result is an album that captures the intimacy of the room, and the immediacy of these songs that transform thought, memory and emotion into such wondrous light. Channelling the metamorphic experience of becoming a mother, and processing the demise of a long-term relationship, Sermanni dove deep into her psyche and returned with songs that have a sharpness, an acuity of feeling, and that capture the fuidity of our mind and the depth of our emotional experience.

Rightly described by critics as a "Folk noir gem" (MOJO), "Stately, poetic" (CLASH) and "Folk of the Highest Order" (Time Out), Rachel Sermanni has been making music for over a decade and has developed her artistic voice over her many releases, each time pushing boundaries and experimenting with different musical textures while maintaining the raw emotional connection, to herself and others, that defnes her music.

Rachel Sermanni has toured the globe, played alongside artists such as Mumford & Sons, Fink, Ron Sexsmith, John Grant, The Staves, Karine Polwart, The Maes and many more at venues and festivals all over, most recently playing with Charlie Cunningham. She also runs a songwriting workshop called Cultivating A Creative Life and her podcast, Rachel Sermanni's Finger That Points To The Moon, similarly explores her relationship to creativity and inspiration, with the hope that it will help point in the direction of truth for herself and those listening.