dean mcphee

Northern Earth feels like a real distillation of Dean McPhee’s sound; the music shows meticulous attention to detail, and recording it live with no overdubs makes it all the more impressive. A real sense of life and energy flows through each mercurial, exploratory piece. It is complex, painstakingly crafted music that is also focused and assured. It comes highly recommended.

Dean McPhee has shared a video for “Indica Fields” from “Northern Earth”, his sixth full-length album, due 11 September on Bass Ritual. The video uses BFI archive footage from the final edition of the National Coal Board’s Mining Review series. Originally a sold-out limited cassette, the album arrives on 180g heavyweight vinyl — three compositions recorded live with no overdubs.

The Folklore Tapes Ceremonial Counties Vol. V covers Norfolk and West Yorkshire, courtesy of Pefkin and Dean McPhee. If this quality is maintained throughout the series, we will have a stunning and important body of work on our hands.

Watch Dean McPhee’s ‘The Bradford Boar’, filmed by Dave George and inspired by the Ben Wheatley film “A Field in England”. It features on a split cassette release (with Pefkin), available on Folklore Tapes as part of their Ceremonial Counties Subscription Series.

In many ways, Dean McPhee’s latest offering is a cerebral trip for sure, but every minute of Astral Gold is brimming with what can only be described as soul.

UK guitarist Dean McPhee has announced the release of his fifth LP ‘Astral Gold’, which combines influences from Dub, Underground Electronic Music, Kosmische, Post Rock & British Folk. It is his first release on his new ‘Bass Ritual’ label.

Today you get a double helping of Tune of the Day from West Yorkshire based solo electric guitarist Dean Mcphee. We have his new video and a live session, both from his latest album Fatima’s Hand.

Bradford-based psychedelic-folk-rock group The Family Elan are to collaborate with South Asian musicians from Bradford and Pakistan, featuring Hameed Brothers Qawwal & Party, Tazeem Khan, and Sagir Ali Khan.