The Deep Dark Woods embark on Scandinavian tour this month
17-08-2022Following their JUNO nominated album Yarrow (2017), Changing Faces is The Deep Dark Woods reimagined. Produced by Ryan Boldt, the new album also features touring companions Kacy & Clayton and the guitar stylings of Evan Cheadle. Originally from Saskatchewan and now based on the east coast of Canada, The Deep Dark Woods take up a deep tradition of forlorn storytelling, drawing lines from Celtic folksongs to country blues, John Fahey to Shirley Collins. Lush and devastating, Boldt’s gothic surrealism is stark in detail and full of emotion, a murder balladeer for our time.
On Changing Faces, you will be surprised by how gradual yet complete a turn The Deep Dark Woods have made from cabin cozy jam band to pan-Atlantic folk revivalist collective. Boldt’s delicate melodies and metallic-stringed bite rattle centuries-old folkloric ghosts and personal demons alike. The Deep Dark Woods, a band with few fixed members, is a vessel for Boldt, keyboard wonder Geoff Hilhorst, among others, to find their own vocabulary for translating traditional folk forms – Irish waltzes, Broadside Ballads, ominous lullabies – to contemporary electric terms. With Changing Faces, Boldt arrives in a new place, the culmination of a project both historical and personal.
TOURDATES:
19/08: Oslo, NO - John Dee
20/08: Bodø, NO - Parkenfestivalen
22/08: Trondheim, NO - Bar Moskus
23/08: Ringebu, NO - Arnemoen Gård
24/08: Kristiansand, NO - Vaktbua