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2nd track on this exciting EP. Check out the surreal video which accompanies it! “Diverse influences… Yet the resulting melange coheres into a frequently beguiling avant-garde chamber pop” - R2
Take a room full of highly skilled but unrehearsed instrumentalists, supply them with enough musical notation to map their way through a song they’ve never heard before, then hit record and listen to the wild nervous energy that this occult ritual will raise. This is the precarious and painful process that birthed ‘On A Red Horse’ - a song which resists all the tepid and cliched formulae of today’s lukewarm folk pop to stand apart from anything else like some twisted aberration of nature. The word ‘folk’ has become a hub of negative connotations thanks to its adoption by the mainstream, but on this latest track James Edge and the Mindstep wrest it back into serious musical respectability. The accompanying video was the result of a collaboration with animator Ross Butter and is every bit as unshackled as the music. Taking nearly a year to complete and animated by hand at a few frames each day, it’s the painstaking realisation of a stream-of-consciousness concept birthed in the mind of the group’s songwriter James Edge. Like the music it soundtracks, it doesn’t deal in half measures, and together the pieces merge to present the possibility that maybe, just maybe, there’s still some counterculture left in this world.
"I want to change the way people think about acoustic music and start redefining what it can be. I am pleased to have found, in Folkstock Records, a label brave enough to take on the challenge of releasing something as unusual and abrasive as On A Red Horse".

James’s songwriting and his sheer compositional nous - which draws on aspects of jazz, modern classical music and punk rock and roll - elevates songs like ‘On A Red Horse’ to a place far above any glib and generic categorisation. He is closer to a modern day Zappa, channelling his eccentric art through folk arrangements to create something deeply surprising, raw, and unnerving.

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from JAMES EDGE AND THE MINDSTEP - ON A RED HORSE, released April 15, 2016

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Folkstock Records UK

Boutique label releasing handpicked singer songwriters from the Folkstock fold.
Most engineering, mixing and mastering by Lauren Deakin Davies.
Except Bright Season by Bright Season - released 31st May 2014
The F Spot by Friends of Folkstock - release date 17th May 2014
Passing the Baton - Swarb and Folkstock friends - 5th April 2014
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