Richard Reed Parry with Arcade Fire live in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry has shared his new solo track Song Of Wood.
Parry has signed to ANTI- Records in readiness for two solo albums which will arrive separately on September 21st (Quiet River Of Dust Vol. 1) and in the spring of next year.
“‘Song of Wood’ started in Montreal on my porch in the rain, with a little loop from an iPhone 4 synthesizer app that doesn’t seem to exist anymore,” Parry has said. “I started writing something that I thought was going to be a folk-style ‘riddle’ song – ‘gave my love a cherry that had no stone…gave my love a chicken that had no bone…’ but it turned into something else.”
“I finished it in upstate New York when my friend Caroline Shaw sang a bunch of very magical layers of vocals. There’s a quiet moment close to the end that I really like, when you can hear a lot of cicadas that I recorded in a forest in Kyoto, Japan, with Andrew Barr [the Barr Brothers] gently playing pieces of driftwood.”
