Estuary English, by D Rothon & O Cherer

Estuary English

by D Rothon & O Cherer

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1.	Silver River 04:30 video	buy track
2.	Aust Ferry 04:44	buy track
3.	The Tide Turns 05:17	buy track
4.	Godwits 05:59	buy track
5.	The Bore 06:42	buy track
6.	Bullo Pill 03:46	buy track
7.	Slime Road 07:10	buy track
8.	The Noose 03:52	buy track
9.	Silver Haze Dusk 04:00	buy track

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Estuary English – a collaboration between Clay Pipe artists Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere) and D Rothon, and released as a limited edition to coincide with a showcase for the label at London’s Cafe Oto – started out as a conversation about Alan Lomax, Harry Smith and Smithsonian Folkways but it soon mutated into something that felt a lot closer to home in mood and theme – despite the dominance of electric and pedal steel guitars in these spare, evocative instrumental pieces.

For Ollie they have a particular resonance: “Having grown up near the Severn Estuary, I have always been drawn to the strange, ever-shifting, no-mans land watery landscape of these places. They’re simultaneously tranquil and charged with hazard and treachery so are both beautiful and frightening. These pieces are an attempt to sketch the essence of these muddy, alien wetlands.”

The two musicians worked remotely on the tracks and, as David explains, “It felt like a very instinctive process. A lot of them started with Ollie sending me something he’d done, and I tried not to overthink my parts – some of them are basically improvised first takes. It was a case of deciding on an approach and then going for it.”

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released January 21, 2022

all music is by David Rothon and O Cherer and is performed by them too

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