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This week's Rural Electric spotlights Cashavelly's latest release:
Cashavelly calls the bluff of a societal narrative that seeks to diminish women with age, knowing they often find their full power at the moment they’re written off. Her substantive pop music defies, provokes, and benevolently empathizes, convincing all who listen that the rebirth of a new world is not only possible, but already underway. Her latest album, Meditation Through Gunfire, is a bold manifesto, weaving together threads of unflinching personal inquiry, societal critique, and urgent philosophical defiance.
Her early albums, The Kingdom Belongs to a Child (2015) and Hunger (2018), stood out in a crowded field, earning awards and accolades, for their haunting melodies, evocative lyrics, and dissent of America’s habit for hypocrisy and exploitation. But it was in her next album and award-winning feature film Metamorphosis (2021) where she would confront the world with questions that to answer would upend our way of life.
Meditation through Gunfire is that answer - the emotional rollercoaster of Fleetwood Mac, the punk poetry of Patti Smith, and the heart, swagger, and universality of powerful pop queens like Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and Chappel Roan. Posted By Cashavelly
New Album from daidrum: All at Sea
Released 10 April 2025
London based musician daidrum is releasing his second album, All at Sea, on the 10 April 2025.
The album comprises of 9 tracks, including the two previously released singles, Merry go round and Lonely Planet, the latter of which has gone onto accumulate over 25,000 streams. The album weighs in at just under an hour, and is a lushly produced slab of progressive rock.
All at Sea was recorded at Foster's home studio in London and was mixed in London and Cornwall. Listeners will spot psychedelic and folk influences overlaid with a progressive rock sensibilty influenced by the likes of Steven Wilson, Marillion, Tears for Fears and Pink Floyd.
The album also features musical contributions from respected fiddle player and Violin channel founder Chris Haigh, former TTF singer Layla Armini, and Foster's daughter Hannah who sings backing vocals and plays flute.
Daidrum bio
Foster has been writing and recording his own music as daidrum since lockdown 2020. Foster’s chosen artist name daidrum comes from an old nickname, gained when he was a drummer in Welsh Rock band Eight Miles High during the late 1980s, Dai being Welsh for David. Since then he has played in numerous bands as diverse as Death metal band Lord of Darkness, and Hertfordshire based Nati.onal Funk Service.
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His formative debut album, The Wild Winds Coldy Blow, was released in 2021 and since them he has been working on songs for the new album All at Sea. However,
as Foster says, " I feel I've developed hugely as a songwriter,
musician and producer over the last 4 years". Like it’s predecessor the
album will feature elements of prog, pop, folk and rock and reflects
Foster’s diverse experience as a musician.
Originally planned for release in 2024, the album has been delayed by personal tragedy. Foster lost his oldest daughter in February 2024. All the songs on the album were written prior to this. However as Foster says, “Music has proved to be a therapy for me, and the processes involved in arranging, mixing and producing these songs has been one of the few things that have kept me going through some really bleak times”.“
“Above all I want to write good songs, songs that tell stories and music that is beautiful, accessible, and thought provoking” says Foster.
Daidrum remains a studio project at the moment, although live performance is not out of the question. “My first priority has been to get back to writing again. I have struggled with that since my daughter died and I wanted to recapture that first. I have a number of new songs in the pipeline, and have been working with folk musician Amy Goddard to further develop my writing”
The album’s first single Merry go Round was released in September 2023 and was very positively received. Lonely Planet released in November 2024 has currently accunulated over 25,000 streams. All at sea shows an artist forging ahead with a distinctive and unique vision.
Daidrum Profiles Linktree:
REVIEW: daidrum – ‘All At Sea’
On his sophomore LP ‘All At Sea’, daidrum invites us into a world where memory, myth, and melody drift in and out like changing tides. This new full-length outing from the London-based artist is nothing short of a prog-rock voyage—emotionally dense, sonically expansive, and deeply personal.
Spanning nine songs and nearly an hour of music, ‘All At Sea’ wears ambition proudly on its sleeve. It’s an album that doesn’t shy away from grand gestures or conceptual storytelling. Yet what makes it truly compelling is how grounded it feels, rooted in real experiences of grief, fatherhood, and the shifting sands of identity in later life. The sea, both literal and metaphorical, becomes a recurring motif—a vast, unknowable force that mirrors the emotional undercurrents throughout.
From the melancholic sway of ‘Trafalgar Blues’, which paints a vivid portrait of a soul haunted by war, to the dreamy pulse of ‘Lonely Planet’, daidrum moves deftly between introspection and theatricality. The production is lush without being overwhelming, balancing vintage textures with a modern clarity. It’s clear that this is a labour of love, one crafted in the quiet solitude of a home studio but shaped with a cinematic ear.
There’s also an unmistakable thread of homage running through the album. Fans of early prog giants will feel right at home, but daidrum as filters those influences through his own lived experiences, whether meditating on generational trauma in ‘Salt Requiem’ or wrestling with the emotional turbulence of retirement in quieter moments.
Ultimately, ‘All At Sea’ is a record that rewards patience. It’s not built for fleeting attention spans, it’s meant to be absorbed and wash over you slowly. Every track feels like a message in a bottle: carefully constructed, cast into the unknown, waiting for someone to listen.
More Reviews:
https://thegatekeeperspace.com/all-at-sea-is-an-album-worth-pondering-on/
https://appppc.com/all-at-sea-doesnt-just-show-off-it-feels/
Hi Mike - hope all good. (A note from Alex who we thank for providing us with a copy of this release)
Truly honoured to share with you the
latest interpretation of quiet details from the wonderful and ethereally
gifted, Ian Hawgood. Full release 23rd April 2025.
Ian’s done so much and
been so important to modern music it’s impossible to summarise here -
Home Normal is his legendary label and music under his own name, plus
numerous aliases and collaborations (see the stunning qd09 observatories
with qd favourite Craig Tattersall for one example), stands out as some
of the best and most thoughtful music in any genre over the past couple
of decades.
This album could be his most personal yet. Ian is
not only a musical visionary, he’s a wonderful and open human. He’s had
some tough times over the past few years and on this album lays all his
emotions bare and, in doing so, has created some of the most beautiful
and sensitive music I’ve ever heard.
His masterful grasp of
melody fuses with his highly refined ear for atmospheric and richly
detailed soundscapes - elegance and restraint imbues the album with a
feeling of deep reflection. Even if we don’t know precisely how Ian was
feeling when making this, we can feel the emotion pouring out and into
our very consciousness.
Electro-acoustics, field recordings, low
fidelity whispers and unknowable wisps fill this gorgeous world Ian’s
created. His delicate and sophisticated playing and musical choices show
us an artist at the highest level, making exactly what he needs to make
to feed his soul, and in doing so, ours.
He also invited a few
friends to contribute - Sam Liu, Craig Tattersall, Brad Deschamps and me
(Alex Gold) - big thanks to them for being a part of it.
We’re
so lucky he was able to find himself again and share this - I for one am
more happy than I can say that this masterpiece exists.
Here are some words from Ian, who puts it far better than I ever could. His honesty is beyond inspirational.
‘well,
here we are’ is an album that shouldn’t exist. I didn’t want to record,
play or even see another object related to music a couple of years ago.
My family and friends helped to sell off or re-home most of my studio
as I went into a period of rehabilitation and counselling due to ongoing
PTSD, and I just wanted to focus on regaining a sense of self.
I
can honestly say counselling and kindness saved my life. I should
really dedicate this album to the NHS, the Mankind charity, my family
and friends, but this is for me. This is about extreme acceptance and
not allowing anyone else to define you, from whatever period of your
life. So many voices stay with us from any age and can have a deeply
negative impact, shattering the self. Yet the good and the bad exist and
that is just that. The bad needn’t negate the good. It all just exists.
‘well,
here we are’ is not an album of conclusion and recovery. It is that of
arrival. We arrive at points in our life where the trauma of the past
and fear of the future have less of a hold over us the more we invest in
ourselves and those who love us. There’s great peace and joy in that,
and that’s where ‘well, here we are’ is for me. It is where I am at
right now. It is of light seeping through the porous darkness and
focusing on that, of recognising the good and the bad equally but being
present within that. It is of acceptance that life is hard but that we
can find a way.
Thank you
The artwork was made as
always influenced by the music and idea behind the album - originating
from a photo from Ian which was then captured with analogue photography
and processed here at quiet details studios.
As usual, the album is presented on the physical edition, a custom six-panel digipack with a separate fine art print too.
The CD also has a special long-form continuous mix of the album, representing the music in its purest form.
Credits:
Music by Ian Hawgood
with Sam Liu, Craig Tattersall, Alex Gold, and Brad Deschamps
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by quiet details in collaboration with Ian Hawgood
Design by quiet details
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