We have two great live videos to share featuring Buck Curran in session. Buck has been widely featured on Folk Radio UK, previously as part of the duo Arborea (with Shanti Deschaine) and now as a solo artist. Both of the videos below were filmed live by Jesse Sheppard whose videos we have featured before and who also plays in Folk/psych-rock guitar duo Elkhorn. Buck explains:
“In September of 2018 while on tour in America, I had the chance to finally visit my friend Jesse Sheppard (of the band Elkhorn) at his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Jesse is a wonderful musician and videomaker; among his work is one of my favorite musical documentaries The Things That We Used to Do, a film made in 2010 about Jack Rose and Glenn Jones (recently interviewed here on Folk Radio UK). For quite a few years now I’d been talking with Jesse about doing something together and it was a challenge to line things up, but fortunately, it all came together during this last tour. It’s an honor to have finally collaborated with each other. Even though we had very little time (we even had a show together the same day in Philadelphia) the performances he captured of Song for Liam and Seven Gardens To Your Shore are intimate and unadorned, and I’m very grateful we got something documented.”
Seven Gardens To Your Shore is from Buck’s solo album Immortal Light which was a Featured Album of the Month (reviewed here).
And maybe that sums up the importance of Curran’s work. It takes risks, it is not afraid to be experimental, but at the same time, it never denies the primacy of melody or relinquishes the idea that natural beauty – the beauty of the seas or of the cosmos – can find its way into music. With Immortal Light Curran has successfully tapped into that natural beauty and created a slice of alt-folk that is as engrossing as anything you’re likely to hear. Thomas Blake, Folk Radio UK.
Song for Liam is from Buck’s latest album ‘Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas’ which we reviewed here.
Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas is an album of poetry in guitar music. The space around Buck Curran’s music allows it to grow and change, to become part of the landscape yet also allows you to become part of it as well. Richard Hollingham, Folk Radio UK
Both albums were released via ESP-Disk/Obsolete Recordings and are available via Bandcamp: https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/
More here: http://www.obsoleterecordings.com/