Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage share video for new single 'Hidden Things'
Single release: Out Now
More info: Artist website
Praise for Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
“Flawless” - The Guardian
“Dreamy reveries, softly warm vocals, stirring guitar arrangements - Sanders & Savage wield an elusive sort of magic.” - Mojo
“A thing of beauty” - fRoots
“I’ve loved Hannah Sanders’ voice since the first listen and Ben Savage is a master musician." - Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2 Folk Show
“When their voices blend there are echoes of Anne Briggs and Bert Jansch, Shirley Collins and Davy Graham and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings” Max Reinhardt, BBC Radio 3, Late Junction
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Hidden Things is the first in a trilogy of singles by Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage. Here, in a new video for the song - premiered by Folk Radio, and shot by Rob Bridge from Redwood Music Photography - the duo highlight the beauty in the tiny details of landscapes, whether urban or rural.
Watch the video below.
After widely touring for the past few years 2019’s singles reflect the duo’s relationship to the spirit of place; all three songs were written and arranged in different counties whilst they were touring their critically acclaimed album Awake in 2018.
The first in this trilogy, Hidden Things, takes its inspiration from a time spent in northern Sweden. Hannah says “I was reading my friend Francesco Dimitri’s novel “Book of Hidden Things”. I was sitting on the coast of Stockholme’s Archipelago reading a novel set in Southern Italy and I was moved by the idea that landscapes hold dreams - love, mystery, loss… Dimitri’s book is about how stories become part of our connection to landscape. Like stories, songs can be a way of bringing the land’s dreams to life…”
The duo tour their intimate single-microphone show throughout the UK in April. Full dates below:
4th Apr SHEFFIELD The Greystones TICKETS HERE
5th Apr SALTAIRE The Live Room TICKETS HERE
6th Apr RUNCORN The Brindley TICKETS HERE
7th Apr CUMBRIA Sticklebarn Sessions TICKETS HERE
9th Apr NEWTON ABBOTT Kingskerswell Church TICKETS HERE
13th Apr FINCHINGFIELD Church, Essex TICKETS HERE
17th Apr ALDERSHOT West End Centre TICKETS HERE
18th Apr SHOREHAM-by-SEA Ropetackle Arts Centre TICKETS HERE
19th Apr OXFORD Holywell Music TICKETS HERE
Huddled round a single microphone, singing intimate duets with just mountain dulcimer, dobro and guitar, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage are an acoustic duo that look & sound classically timeless, yet their music is unique.
Fleetingly, they may evoke a memory of Gram & Emmylou, Shirley & Davey, or Gillian & Dave but their distilling of musical influences from both sides of the Atlantic produces a refined sound that is decidedly their own.
Their unique unplugged presentation creates a widescreen, cinematic soundscape with open spaces and atmosphere, giving their beautifully pure vocals room to share the songs’ emotion and narrative.
The material is as joyful and fun as it is intense, but the common factor is the duo’s warmth and confidence in each other; their natural ease and connection is clearly evident on the recorded music, and a genuine pleasure to witness on stage.
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