Joseph Allred

For Old Time Fantasias, Joseph Allred enlisted the help of pianist Hans Chew. Before long, the project had burgeoned into what Allred calls ‘probably the most involved and densely orchestrated album I’ve made to date.’ Featuring banjo, strings, pump organ and trombones, Allred’s visionary music will carry you into an ever-changing world of dreamy American pastoralia.

Joseph Allred’s New Jerusalem shifts between the cosmic and the cosmopolitan and results in a multilayered album that is often intriguingly dense but never far away from a state of euphoria.

Featuring music from Joseph Allred, Rob Noyes, Jesse Sheppard, Isasa, D.C Cross, Nick Jonah Davis and many more, Buck Curran has curated a stunning tribute to the guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans. This amount of musical quality and artistic depth is rarely found on one compilation. 

Painting a wide-ranging vista of instrumental narratives and musical styles, Joseph Allred delivers a wonderfully varied set through The Rambles & Rags of Shiloh.

Watch the prolific Joseph Allred performing Dance of the Fair Folk from his forthcoming album The Rambles and Rags of Shiloh. Shiloh is a kind of “mandorla,” a place where the spheres of past and present, dead and living, immanent and transcendent, overlap.

Fire and Earth is the latest offering from guitarist Joseph Allred. It’s released on Scissor Tail Records who speak highly – There’s a sincerity in Allred’s music and way of life that has been missing from modern life for a long time. Dig deeper and listen in full to the album.