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ASCENDING

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"“Unique conjunction of classical and folk guaranteed to set the spirits soaring..

Ascending thing is the most original thing I've heard in years. Pure joy from start to finish."

Limelight *****

"It’s deliciously addictive and deliriously dangerous, and woe betide any unthinking listener who gets in the way of the juggernaut duo who are bearing down at a hundred miles an hour."

Folk Wales *****

"Good luck pigeon-holing this..
This is radically experimental music from two artists at full throttle..

blowing every genre apart."

Songlines ****

"Reclaiming this classical music and returning it to its folk roots"

Tom McKinney, BBC Radio 3

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A genre-defying debut reimagining classical music through the living lens of folk, featuring a collaboration with Robert Macfarlane

This Spring, Stevens & Pound release their debut album Ascending, presenting a record which transforms their collective pasts into a reimagined future. 

At the heart of the album is a meeting of the duo's respective thousand-year old musical worlds, drawing inspiration from the English Folk Revival of the early 20th century, when classical composers collected, transcribed, and reimagined national folk music.

Ascending recomposes giants from the core tenets of the classical canon including music from Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending and Holst's Planets and St Paul's Suites as well as their own compositions including a collaboration with writer Robert Macfarlane.

Recorded at Real World, Sleeper Sounds and Gighouse Studios and is released on Idiom Records.

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