Ned Collette & Ryan Davis

Labelmates, conspirators, pals dancing in the dawn of a hundred small towns… Ned Collette & Ryan Davis hit the road together in Europe this Spring.

Ryan Davis

After more than fifteen years of releasing music on labels like Feeding Tube, Load Records, Astral Spirits, Bruit Direct Disques, Petty Bunco, All Gone, and others (including, if not primarily, his very own Sophomore Lounge imprint) as/alongside such outfits as State Champion, Tropical Trash, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Roadhouse, and others, “Dancing On The Edge” – a seven song, 53 minute basement folk opus – is the first collection of material released under Kentuckiana-based visual artist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ryan Davis’ birth name. The tunes on the album range from bare-boned, achingly crooned avant-folk tales to jovial, full-band excursions into long-form experimental country-tinged rock modes. Continuing in the tradition of the TVZs, Terry Allens, Souled Americans, and DC Bermans before him, this 2xLP reimagines the exceedingly dated archetype of modern day “indie troubadour” music and the inherent trappings therein.

Davis’ solo debut is a dense collection of Americana-Noir that navigates a familiar yet alternate reality, one of enchanted mundanity and uniquely mid-southern introspection. Simultaneously anti-social and outwardly inviting, free of cynicism yet slightly steeped in paranoia, “Dancing On The Edge” is as delicately choreographed and emotionally connective as it is, at times, absurd. Featuring performances from friends like Joan Shelley, Catherine Irwin (Freakwater), Will Lawrence (Felice Brothers, John Early, Gun Outfit), Jenny Rose (Giving Up), Elisabeth Fuchsia (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Footings, Ned Collette), all fellow members of Kentucky-based ensemble Equipment Pointed Ankh, & more.

Ned Collette

Der 1979 in Australien geborene, in Berlin lebende Singer/Songwriter & Produzent Ned Collette etablierte sich mit wortgewandten, stimmungsvollen Songs, gepaart mit einer so abenteuerlichen wie stilmässig frei collagierten Musik. Sanft, lyrisch, mit einer klanglichen Intensität, die aus Improvisation & Experimenten entstanden ist: Da geht einer unbeirrbar & kompromisslos den Weg, seine weitreichende Vision zu verwirklichen & hochkarätiges Songwriting, Improvisation & experimentelle Sounds unfassbar schön zu fusionieren.