Authors: Richard Russell, Samantha Morton
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SAM MORTON
ANNUNCIA L'ALBUM DI DEBUTTO
DAFFODILS & DIRT
IN USCITA IL 14 GIUGNO 2024 SU XL RECORDINGS
L'ULTIMO SINGOLO
"LETS WALK IN THE NIGHT"
DISPONIBILE OGGI
VIDEO DIRETTO DA SAMANTHA MORTON
SAM MORTON, il duo musicale composto dalla cantante, cantautrice e acclamata attrice e regista Samantha Morton e dal produttore musicale e co-cantautore Richard Russell, annuncia oggi i dettagli dell'attesissimo album di debutto. Intitolato Daffodils & Dirt, l'album sarà pubblicato il 14 giugno via XL Recordings. In dodici brani sorprendenti, i due costruiscono un mondo musicale profondamente personale che sembra contemporaneamente intimo e delicato, ma anche potente e duro. La suite di canzoni, in parte autobiografica, vede i paesaggi sonori spartani di Russell fornire una ricca base per la splendida ed eterea voce di Morton, coadiuvato da un cast di collaboratori musicali che include Alabaster DePlume, Laura Groves, Jack Peñate e la cantante Ali Campbell (su "Broxtowe Girl").
Despite a lifelong love of, and involvement in, music, SAM MORTON is Samantha Morton’s first ever artist project. The collaboration came about after she appeared on Desert Island Discs in October 2020 and Russell happened to be listening. He was struck not only by her song choices (including a shared love of one song in particular: “I Remember” by Molly Drake) but by the way the music weaved through her lived experiences. The pair connected and corresponded, swapping ideas, sketches and stream-of-consciousnesses. Finally, months later, they met in the studio and engaged in a period of spontaneous, intense and open-ended collaboration, one which proved to be a cathartic musical process for both parties. Daffodils & Dirt, completed during 2023, is the captivating result.
Available digitally and on CD, LP and exclusive indie-store yellow vinyl LP, Daffodils & Dirt is available to pre-order here. The album cover artwork features an archive photograph from acclaimed British-American photographer and visual artist Nick Waplington, who documented life on Nottingham’s Broxtowe Estate at the same time Morton was growing up there in the mid-1980s.
To celebrate the news, SAM MORTON today also release new single, “Let’s Walk In The Night,” from the album. A kind of spectral, otherworldly reimagination of UK street soul, “Let’s Walk In The Night” is accompanied by a video directed by Samantha Morton herself. Filmed on location at Nottingham’s annual Goose Fair, it’s the second music video Morton has directed from the project, following her video for (and lead role in) “Cry Without End” earlier this year.
Meanwhile, having made their live debut with a sold out show at London’s Below Stone Nest venue last night, SAM MORTON have announced details of their biggest headline show to date. The event will take place at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London on 20th June with tickets available from Thursday 28th March. For full details, visit our official website. They will also perform at this year’s End Of The Road festival among other festival appearances.
Pre-order Daffodils & Dirt
SAM MORTON, Daffodils and Dirt Biography
From the first held-down yet haunted notes of Highwood House – a wail that repeats itself and a sombre piano, like a church bell tolling – you know you’re in a place that is precarious and genuine. It’s late at night, and cold, and there’s the smell of fear and despair. Something’s being longed for, something has been lost. Samantha Morton speaks carefully, her voice close up, as if she’s confiding in us. As if we’re a stranger she met by chance on a dark road in the rain. We’re someone she can talk to. Someone she has to talk to.
Because there’s no one else. On the second track, Hunger Hill Road, she begins to sing, the husky innocence of the vocal floating above a distant mellotron and percussion that seems to stumble, like the footsteps of someone out of it or drunk. There’s an uncanny authority about Morton’s voice, despite its ethereal quality, something gritty and determined, but it would feel like a lullaby were it not for the brutality and loneliness of the lyrics. “Hug me while I cry.” “The smell of piss.”
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ANNUNCIA L'ALBUM DI DEBUTTO
DAFFODILS & DIRT
IN USCITA IL 14 GIUGNO 2024 SU XL RECORDINGS
L'ULTIMO SINGOLO
"LETS WALK IN THE NIGHT"
DISPONIBILE OGGI
VIDEO DIRETTO DA SAMANTHA MORTON
SAM MORTON, il duo musicale composto dalla cantante, cantautrice e acclamata attrice e regista Samantha Morton e dal produttore musicale e co-cantautore Richard Russell, annuncia oggi i dettagli dell'attesissimo album di debutto. Intitolato Daffodils & Dirt, l'album sarà pubblicato il 14 giugno via XL Recordings. In dodici brani sorprendenti, i due costruiscono un mondo musicale profondamente personale che sembra contemporaneamente intimo e delicato, ma anche potente e duro. La suite di canzoni, in parte autobiografica, vede i paesaggi sonori spartani di Russell fornire una ricca base per la splendida ed eterea voce di Morton, coadiuvato da un cast di collaboratori musicali che include Alabaster DePlume, Laura Groves, Jack Peñate e la cantante Ali Campbell (su "Broxtowe Girl").
Despite a lifelong love of, and involvement in, music, SAM MORTON is Samantha Morton’s first ever artist project. The collaboration came about after she appeared on Desert Island Discs in October 2020 and Russell happened to be listening. He was struck not only by her song choices (including a shared love of one song in particular: “I Remember” by Molly Drake) but by the way the music weaved through her lived experiences. The pair connected and corresponded, swapping ideas, sketches and stream-of-consciousnesses. Finally, months later, they met in the studio and engaged in a period of spontaneous, intense and open-ended collaboration, one which proved to be a cathartic musical process for both parties. Daffodils & Dirt, completed during 2023, is the captivating result.
Available digitally and on CD, LP and exclusive indie-store yellow vinyl LP, Daffodils & Dirt is available to pre-order here. The album cover artwork features an archive photograph from acclaimed British-American photographer and visual artist Nick Waplington, who documented life on Nottingham’s Broxtowe Estate at the same time Morton was growing up there in the mid-1980s.
To celebrate the news, SAM MORTON today also release new single, “Let’s Walk In The Night,” from the album. A kind of spectral, otherworldly reimagination of UK street soul, “Let’s Walk In The Night” is accompanied by a video directed by Samantha Morton herself. Filmed on location at Nottingham’s annual Goose Fair, it’s the second music video Morton has directed from the project, following her video for (and lead role in) “Cry Without End” earlier this year.
Meanwhile, having made their live debut with a sold out show at London’s Below Stone Nest venue last night, SAM MORTON have announced details of their biggest headline show to date. The event will take place at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London on 20th June with tickets available from Thursday 28th March. For full details, visit our official website. They will also perform at this year’s End Of The Road festival among other festival appearances.
Pre-order Daffodils & Dirt
SAM MORTON, Daffodils and Dirt Biography
From the first held-down yet haunted notes of Highwood House – a wail that repeats itself and a sombre piano, like a church bell tolling – you know you’re in a place that is precarious and genuine. It’s late at night, and cold, and there’s the smell of fear and despair. Something’s being longed for, something has been lost. Samantha Morton speaks carefully, her voice close up, as if she’s confiding in us. As if we’re a stranger she met by chance on a dark road in the rain. We’re someone she can talk to. Someone she has to talk to.
Because there’s no one else. On the second track, Hunger Hill Road, she begins to sing, the husky innocence of the vocal floating above a distant mellotron and percussion that seems to stumble, like the footsteps of someone out of it or drunk. There’s an uncanny authority about Morton’s voice, despite its ethereal quality, something gritty and determined, but it would feel like a lullaby were it not for the brutality and loneliness of the lyrics. “Hug me while I cry.” “The smell of piss.”
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