River Holds Peace, Some Live , by Kiran Leonard (Trespass on Foot Group)

River Holds Peace, Some Live

by Kiran Leonard (Trespass on Foot Group)

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chimeraan Been listening to this album on and off since I heard it last year, easily AOTY 23 for me Favorite track: LV/AI.

Will Frankland Literally the best album of 2023 Favorite track: LV/AI.

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Beautiful 7" single edition of 'River Holds Peace, Some Live' featuring the track BO/W from the album split into two parts - Side A features the song BO/W (I) and Side B features a sprawling guitar solo ending BO/W (II).

7" lathe cut with printed centre labels inside a numbered, one-off sleeve hand painted by Kiran with a unique piece of the score housed in a clear plastic wallet.

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1.	TW/S 05:47	buy track
2.	3/FE 04:16	buy track
3.	LV/AI 09:28	buy track
4.	O/TH 06:10	buy track
5.	U/L 05:39	buy track
6.	BO/W 09:00	buy track

about

Them There presents River Holds Peace, Some Live, the newest album from Kiran Leonard. A live record of sorts, the album documents Kiran’s work between Summer 2020 and late 2022 with the Trespass on Foot Group, a chamber quintet of three electric guitars (two high-strung), cittern, double bass, and two voices, featuring members of caroline, Shovel Dance Collective and Dear Laika.

On the one hand, River Holds Peace acts as an accompanying piece to 2021’s Trespass on Foot, an expansive, two-hour opus and a significant departure from the records preceding it — a broad and engrossing collection of feedback-laden guitar drone, austere songs for piano and strings, musique concrete, and minimal folk. The renditions documented on River Holds Peace were the “live solutions” for the grand textures of its parent album, and the two share many common features: the record-defining eschewal of a drum kit, for example. But where Trespass on Foot is diverse, sprawling and insular, River Holds Peace is lean and precise; whereas the absence of percussion on the longer record was a rejection of rhythm, here it leads to some of the most unexpectedly rhythmic music of Leonard’s career, lending space to the careful melodic interplay and measured dissonances in these fully-scored arrangements.

 River Holds Peace, Some Live is the afterword of a large, significant piece of work for Kiran Leonard, which again exemplifies his open-minded, sometimes radical and always forward-thinking approach. Strengthened by additional mixing and mastering by Maelin Brown, these six tracks at times bristle with a dazzling intricacy, but are always anchored by a self-assured songcraft and lyrical flair.

"exceptional songs that do linger" ––The Guardian

"Undoubtedly, Leonard is an autodidact of amazing talent and energy" ––Pitchfork

"wildly ambitious, challenging and wonderful." ––The Line Of Best Fit

"a ridiculous amount of talent" The Quietus

credits

released July 7, 2023

Trespass on Foot Group

Daniel S. Evans, Callum Plowright - high-strung electric guitar
Kiran Leonard - voice, orthodox electric guitar
Mike O'Malley - cittern
Isabelle Thorn - voice, high-strung electric guitar
Otto Willberg - double bass

Mastering and additional mixing by Maelin Brown.

Front cover photo by Ben Beauvallet.

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Kiran Leonard England, UK

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shows

May 8

The White Hotel

Salford, UK
May 9

Glad Café

Glasgow, UK
May 10

The Cluny

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
May 11

Delicious Clam

Sheffield, UK
May 12

Common Ground

Oxford, UK
May 13

The Blue Moon

Cambridge, UK
Jun 26

Moth Club

London, UK

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