ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Today, we finally unveil the Knife, our most explosive song to date. "A stirring lead single that brings together choir-like vocal swells and tempered instrumentation, the whole thing eventually exploding under the weight of pressure, an exhilarating release of noise and energy." Tom Johnson - Gold Flake Paint.  listen to it now

With such an announcing, comes perhaps an even more exciting one in the unveiling of our 3rd album, which is to be a self titled record under our own imprint ‘The Road Records’ Out on May 24th. Pre-orders are available now for both the limited edition vinyl and cd's.

This record represents a deep dive into the notions of freedom, as well as the magnitude of expansive nature and what it means to live inside of it. Having moved to the deep Welsh countryside a few years ago, the two of us began working on a creative enterprise, turning what was a residential smallholding into an artistic homestead and production house, through the means of traditional building techniques. From replacing the old dairy with an analogue recording studio, and gifting previously grazed land to a nature recovery program, our vision is simple; to create a centre for artistic self- sustainability with the natural world at its core. Immersed in this new lifestyle, bound to a place after years of nomadic transition, our 3rd Album "SAMANA' offers an origin to a new model we seek to employ in sustaining uncompromising artistry in the UK.

We will be taking this record to the road in June for the "In Tune With The Infinite" Tour; an all curated event, which we are taking to a small number of unique spaces around the UK. For it, we will be bringing to you the full carnation of our live performance as a 7 piece, to perform our new album 'SAMANA’ in the sacred circle of the round. You will be immersed into an emotional dreamscape of vocals, bodhran, gongs, bells, horns, piano, electric guitars, double bass, drums, violin and cello.

We will also be joined on tour by fellow ‘Road Records’ artist - the incredible neo- classical ensemble ‘Pillow’.

With only a limited number of tickets available, and with our last sell - out show, we urge all to purchase tickets in advance: Get yours here!

Our new single ‘The Knife’ is dropping tomorrow and we are so incredibly excited to share it with you!

The Knife

22.03.24

22.03.24

The Knife

We are so excited to announce our heaviest and most powerful song to date, 'The Knife' which is out the 22nd March under our own imprint ‘The Road Records’ Jump on the presave link in our bio to capture the track. 

“It feels to be a deliverance, a freeing of stored weight and emotion; the confrontation of somatic memory, an invitation for the physical self to shed these feelings stored,” Samana say of the track. “The last section of the song is a complete amalgamation of all these components - it feels to be a sonic representation of a vast mass of water bursting from the containment of a damn, a huge transformative release, like something breaking apart and away from something else, a confrontation, a shedding of a snakes skin.”

- Tom Johnson

Over the past 5 years, we have been working incredibly hard on an all-encompassing artistic venture out here from our smallholding in Wales. To be amongst the first to hear what we have planned for the world, jump over to our website and sign yourself up to the mailing list, where we share exclusive content and works to our community.

"Be the change you wish to see"

Watch this space!

Something very exciting is brewing.

★ Stay tuned ★

Lewes Psych Fest 2024

Here are some photographs of our performance at Lewes Psych Fest on the 27th. Thank you to all of those of you who joined us in the magical hall beneath the towering rafters.

We’re excited to bring you you a sneak preview of an upcoming live session we’ll be dropping next week,  shot with our record label The Road Records, at St Michaels all angels church, the day after our charity fund raiser for suicide&co.

This teaser offers an insight into what we’ll be bringing to Lewes Psych Fest this Saturday, where we’ll be joining a wonderful line up.

We’re on in the small psych room from 4:15-5pm… there’s extremely limited capacity, so be sure to come early to ensure a transcendental experience. 

Samana news dropping very soon!

BBC Wales Peace Transmission

Thank you Adam Walton for playing ‘Seven Years’ on the ‘Peace Transmission Module’ episode yesterday on BBC Radio Wales. Catch the song at 1:54:25

A collection of images taken from our all artist led concert on the 15th in support of Suicide & Co.

Photographs from the wonderful Leo Sartain from Rafiki Studios

Words can’t quite express the profundity of Friday evening. To us it felt to be a coalescence of the powerful forces that constitute the project itself and those individuals involved who have taken it to heights we could never have anticipated. It was an evening of passion, honesty, love, transcendence and a willingness to give oneself to the depths of their emotions.

We’d like to pay huge gratitude to all of those who joined us for the evening. Playing to a full room of individuals who gave themselves fully to both performances, with open hearts, you elevated the evening to that of a spiritual experience for us. Being an all artist-curated event, your attendance facilitated every individual who partook in both projects, enabling each artist to be paid as they should be in the UK for the hard work that goes into curating such events. So too did your generosity help us raise £520 for the charity ‘Suicide & Co.’ We would also like to thank them for coming down to the evening and delivering a very informative and heartfelt speech in how the charity provides services for those bereaved individuals who are effected by suicide.

We would like to thank ‘Pillow’ for the most incredibly profound set of music, in making the evening what it was as an immensely powerful double bill.We would also like to thank Simon and co from St Michael for providing us with one of the most special venues this country has to offer. Finally, thank you to Richard Jones for his stunning, soaring violin brilliance, Fraser Bowles for his  deeply moving cello performance, Alfred Weedon for bringing the house down on double bass, to Jools Owen for his incredibly moving and heartfelt performance which brought goosebumps to us, and finally, with all our hearts to James Osler who defies all artistic and cognitive limitations. He provided both sets with a mystical magic, and worked tirelessly as ‘Nocturne Presents’ alongside both of us under our label imprint ‘The Road Records Studio’ in making this evening as uniquely profound as it was. Thank you for the beautiful photographs Rafiki Studio

This evening was proof, that artists have the power to be the change they want to see.

More Tickets Made Available For 15th December Show

Due to the many enquiries we’ve received since selling out the show, we’ve released a limited number of additional tickets for our show on the 15th, available on eventbrite. Don't hesitate to get yours now before they go!

15th December - Sold Out

2024

A Tender Note

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Lewes Psychedelic Festival 2024

We’re performing at Lewes Psychedelic Festival 2024

15th December Samana with Strings

15th December

The church of St Michaels, Brighton

Co-headliners

Samana + Pillow

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Since announcing tickets a week ago, we’ve already sold over half. So don’t hesitate to get yours now for what will be an incredibly moving and special evening.

15th December 2023

We are delighted to announce our returning to the awe inspiring Church of St Michael on December 15th, with our full band and string section, playing in the round. Joining us as a do-headline is the hauntingly beautiful outfit, pillow. As an all artist-curated evening hosted by our own label the road records in conjunction with nocturne, we seek to offer a uniquely immersive and intimate experience which will provide a passage for audience members to lose themselves to the magnanimity of the beautiful setting of St Michaels Church, encompassed by the soaring sounds of musical landscapes that encapsulate deep themes worthy of the changing of ones perspective.

This is a fundraiser event for Suicide & Co, a charity which works to support bereaved individuals and open the conversation about suicide related grief. You can read more about the charity here

As one of the most special events of the year for us and with limited tickets available, we urge the advance purchase of tickets to avoid missing out. 

Doors 7:00

Pillow 7:30 - 8:15

SAMANA 8:30 - 9:15

We’ve been incredibly busy over the past few months, with some exciting news to come. It’s been such a pleasure working with such talented individuals to help make tangible, our ever-growing, ever shifting artistic inspirations.

We are to begin traversing the UK with the wonderful Silver Moth next week. If you’ve not grabbed a ticket yet, be sure to do so in a city near you, as tickets are selling fast. It will be a special opportunity to see the collusion of two other-worlds encapsulated in one magical evening, so be sure not to miss it!