Kerelsey

Description

Hints of African high life, British folk, free-improvisation, Brazilian spirituals and blue eyed soul gracefully come together in Doug Tiellis second release, Keresley. The record is a wide spray of textures, dynamics and styles and feels unified by Dougs fluid voice and musicianship. Voice, guitar, percussion and brass dont just outline a melody, they resonate as one with grace and simplicity.

Kerelsey is an album of communication both inward and outward, born of a love of the earth and those who walk upon it. Somehow through going on walks in a suburb, of a mid-sized city (Coventry) in two of the rainiest months in recent history in England, we are transported through history and geography, from Africa, to America, to the 50s, to folk music immemorial, to the free jazz of the 60s, abstract prickly sounds, and warm grooviness, and unknown South American Spiritual hymns.