Souls
New project from David Gledhill (Skint & Demoralised)
Announces debut single ‘I Wait For You’ – due Oct 30th via One Two Many Records
Lauren Laverne Headphone Moment BBC 6 Music
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Souls is a brand new project brought to us by producer David Gledhill (formerly of Skint & Demoralised with Matt Abbott).
After Gledhill unearthed virtually hidden vocals in the vast Alan Lomax 1920/30s collection of American Voices, he set to work painstakingly cleaning up each one and setting the newly restored voices to music.
The debut single ‘I Wait For You’, due October 30th will be the second release on One Two Many Records and will be available digitally and as a limited edition 10” vinyl. Mixed and mastered at Metropolis Studios, the vocals on ‘I Wait For You’ are sung by an unknown 1930s American artist.
Listen to the track here
A tale of love, longing and loss, the combination of the mystery singer’s haunting vocals and David’s production is potent. The song shows an undeniable respect for the source that shines through the production. An online hunt to discover the vocalist has produced no success to date but it’s a mystery that David wants to solve in 2016.
Gledhill has created a further collection of 20 tracks, each with different vocals from the archive to be whittled down into an album for release next year.
One Two Many is a label set up in 2015 by Alex Sheridan & Jack Murphy, to release great songs, regardless of genre or classifications. Their first release, by 21 year old Illinoisan Trevor Sensor, had great impact on radio internationally, with 20+ plays on BBC Radio 1 in the UK as well as spot plays on KCRW in LA and Triple J.
Single artwork
3 Comments
As soon as Lauren began playing this on the radio the other day I said to my mum in law …that’s an old voice recorded onto new music…..blew me away….best song I’ve had the delight to hear in a long,long time.
Impatient for more!
This is tremendous. A real achievement. I cannot stop playing the album. Bad Girl is so haunting. Amazing music. So different. So beautiful.
Haunting single … cant stop listening to it … love old + new ….