Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry to release solo collection Quiet River Of Dust


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Richard Reed Parry with Arcade Fire live in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)




Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry has signed with ANTI- Records to release two solo albums during the coming months.

The first instalment, Quiet River Of Dust Vol. 1, will be out on September 21st with part two set to follow in the spring of next year. “The song ‘On the Ground’ was inspired by an encounter with ghost voices in a Japanese forest near a temple on the mountain Koya-Sān,” Parry says of the lead track.

“I told director Caleb Wood the story – of being alone in this magical environment of giant cedar trees and hearing a loud chorus of powerful harmony singing that sounded inexplicably identical to my late father’s folk band the Friends of Fiddler’s Green, who were the soundtrack to my entire childhood and upbringing.”

“I’m lousy at sitting still and being nothing. But being out in the natural world or being immersed in music is the meditation for me. That’s the heart of this record: the experience of transcending the place that you’re in, getting lost in the feeling of where you end and where the world begins, in a dreamlike world of music and thought.”


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