The Rheingans Sisters - Receiver

The Rheingans Sisters - Receiver • CD

Catalogue No: BENDI5
Date of Release: 23 October 2020 (worldwide release) 
Receiver, the new album from BBC Radio 2 Folk award winners The Rheingans Sisters, was released worldwide on 23rd October 2020. Produced by Andy Bell (Karine Polwart, The Furrow Collective, Sam Sweeney) Receiver is their first release on the bendigedig label, and we're delighted to have them onboard. 
The CD comes with fantastic 48-page full colour booklet and the artwork is a collaboration with visual artist Pierre-Olivier Boulant, whose 'solargraphs' are pin-hole camera images made over long periods using everyday containers strapped to his balcony in Toulouse.
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Testimonials

Thomas Blake, UK Folk Radio

'The final waltz that tops off the album is delicate and endearingly humble, a paean to the joys of simplicity. The Rheingans Sisters have earned the right to embrace that simplicity after all the brilliant complexity and sparkling diversity on show. In Receiver they have created a masterpiece of modern folk music as well as a captivating physical artefact.'

Mick Tems, Folk Wales online

‘The Yellow Of The Flowers’ transports the audience into a timeless, summery dreamworld; the circulating fiddles buzzing like bees, drifting and dancing with each other, pinpoint shimmering harmonies.’

★★★★★

David Kidman, FOLK LONDON

‘An absolutely lovely album: enterprising and thought-provoking, and one to savour and treasure long-term’.

★

Louise Jordan, FATEA

‘Extraordinary album…..The Rheingans sisters have reimagined the role of artist not as observer but as receiver, reflecting back objectively and bearing witness to life.’

Angel Romero, World Music Central

‘Receiver is evocative, mesmerizing, experimental, bittersweet and hauntingly beautiful, incorporating familiar string sounds along with unexpected drones and ambience.’

Ian Anderson, Podwireless

‘Staggeringly classy’

Julian May, Songlines

‘Scandi-noir, but tinged with joy and avant-garde trad’

★★★★

Michal Boncza, The Morning Star

‘a rare clarity of harmony, complemented by sublimely inventive overlaps of voices and instruments’

★★★★★

Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 

‘Gorgeously seasonal’

Simon Godley, GodisintheTV  

‘an organic web of sonic intrigue that balances folk idioms both old and new’

★★★★

Thomas Blake, UK Folk Radio

'Anyone who thinks there is a lack of innovation or experimentation in the Brit folk scene needs to hear this album pronto.'

Michal Boncza, The Morning Star

‘a rare clarity of harmony, complemented by sublimely inventive overlaps of voices and instruments’

Mick Tems, Folk Wales online

‘The Rheingans Sisters are unique; their songs and tunes are special, completely absorbing, alluring, simple yet totally complicated.’

★★★★★

Thomas Blake, UK Folk Radio

‘The Rheingans Sisters have created a masterpiece of modern folk music as well as a captivating physical artefact.’

Devon Léger, Folk Alley

‘gorgeous Scandinavian fiddle tunes and harmonies with shimmery British folk song’

Mike Davies, Folking.com

‘Receiver is a work of craftsmanship and beauty that deserves all the acclaim it will doubtlessly receive’

Dave Haslam, RnR Magazine

‘Truly in a league of their own.’

★★★★★