Akari Waura

Duo with Singer from the Wauja community in Upper Xingu. Session on Late Junction BBC Radio 3. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009lm1

Mann Castell

Duo with singer and mutli-instrumentalist Nick Castell, specialising in copper-esque folk song and on stage bickering. https://manncastell.bandcamp.com/album/mann-castell https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/mann-castell/1188804867

Clayground

Commission to write a piece of music for the Melodians steel pan orchestra in celebration of Clayground’s project. We wrote an arrangement of the traditional tune Birmingham Lads.   As part of the project the Melodians learned a new composition ‘Clay Cargo’ created by The Dead Rat Orchestra (Daniel Merrill and Nathaniel Mann). This was […]

Cape Sound Stories.

Commission from HKW in Berlin. Collaboration with Andile Vellum, Mphotseng, Dom Coyote and Noel Lobley. Body echoes from District 6: the performance reflects on Cape Town’s musical heritage using recordings from British record companies from 1910 to 1930. Sound impressions from South African popular music of the time meet the choreography of the deaf dancer […]

Broadside Ballads

Tour and research project with Lisa Knapp and Sam Lee, in association with the Bodleian Library, Oxford. produced by OCM and Sound UK. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-oaLeJxMww https://www.sounduk.net/events/broadside-ballads/

Lara Baladi.

Long-term collaborations with Lebonese Eygptian visual artists. Works include: Borg el Amal (Hope) – 2008. Don’t Touch Me Tomatoes and Chachacha, Commissioned by Christian DIOR, Collection Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France, 2013 Link:https://act.mit.edu/2019/07/dont-touch-me-tomatoes-and-chachacha/

Cease Silence

Music against silence in the face of slaughter. A compilation of artists against genocide in Gaza. Link: https://ceasesilence.bandcamp.com/album/cease-silence-2  

Mimic Hoots – With Jamie Castell

Drawing on the shared Lakeland terrain that links William Wordsworth and Kurt Schwitters, the performance transforms poetry, music, and voice into a volatile acoustic encounter blurring the boundaries between human and nonhuman, text and terrain, memory and resonance. Link: https://www.fonfestival.org/event/concert-mimic-hoots-and-redoubled-echoes-wordsworth-and-schwitters-lakeland-soundscapes/

Jim Ghedi,

Live performances and album contributions with UK folk stalwart. Link: https://jimghedi.bandcamp.com/album/a-hymn-for-ancient-land-2

Furlong Bray

Named after a semi-mythological plant described in 16th century travellers’ tales, ‘The Borametz Tree’ is the first album from C Joynes & The Furlong Bray, a project lead by guitarist C Joynes featuring members of free folk ensemble Dead Rat Orchestra, plus electroacoustic composer Cam Deas and multi-instrumentalist Nick Jonah Davis. https://cjoynes.bandcamp.com/album/the-borametz-tree-2019