June Tour!
Our summer tour begins in less than one week! We can’t believe it’s so close! It’s going to be truly magical. Some of the shows are close to capacity, so book your tickets if you wish to immerse yourself in the experience.
CD's Now For Available
We now have a CD’s for sale!
The Arts Desk Review
Thank you to ‘The Arts Desk’ for the wonderfully insightful review!
KLOF Magazine Review
Their third, self-titled LP, ensnares listeners in a world of inner hearts and complex feelings. Providing a view of the internal reaches of the soul, one is exposed to passion and pain that sometimes provoke furious flurries of sound exploding into the air. Samana is an album that haunts your inner reaches. As a band, Samana examines the soul, leaving one to start or restart life from a different, more enlightened point of view.
What they have created is masterful
- KLOF MAGAZINE
Thank you to Mojo Magazine and RnR magazine for the four star review!
'SAMANA' Album Out Today!
Our self-titled album is out today!
An album that explores notions of ceremony, the transposing of grief, the subconscious mind and the philosophy of dream-time.
Dear Friends,
Today marks the release of our third record, ‘SAMANA’! An album that explores notions of ceremony, the transposing of grief, the subconscious mind and the philosophy of dream-time, it honours a profound moment in both of our lives, in coming back to the core of our being.
A years worth of emotion, excavation, unity and unbridled devotion has accumulated to this point - for the work to be in your hands, in your ears and heart. May you embrace this music with all your senses and may it offer you in turn, a beautiful passage into sincere feeling; to guide you downstream.
Above all else, we would like to thank all of you, who have embarked on our journey since the conception of SAMANA, and to all of those who have joined along the way. We send to you nothing but love.
“Happiness is only real when shared” - Christopher McCandless
With Heart,
Samana
Pre-Save
It’s just three weeks to go until we release our third album ‘SAMANA’ on May 24th! This album is a philosophical intersection between somatics, ceremony, dreams and the alchemy of grief. We feel so touched by all of you who have pre-ordered the album and bought tickets to our tour in June!
✶ You can now pre-save the album here ✶
“Harnessing the profundity of the spirit and carrying it into the studio, Rebecca and Franklin devoted themselves to making an album that takes listeners to the origin of the philosophy and sentiment that lies at the hearts of two such trailblazers, in a truthful, honest and unflinchingly sincere body of work. Inviting kindred artists into the fold for the first time, they pushed themselves to burrow into the very roots of their life experience and love – to sink into the divine.
The result is their third full-length album, a self-titled collection which reflects the truly personal nature of the work found within. Formed of nine songs, where the pair previously pulled inspiration from the world around them, here they dig deep into their souls to thread the new pieces together.
And so, charged by the current toil we face from climate change and the geopolitical landscape, the Samana LP takes inspiration from Rebecca’s dream diary - which she’s kept for more than a decade - and offers an unflinching exploration of the alchemy of grief; a key element underpinning much of her work. It drifts - or perhaps overlaps - the very real world around us while at the same time leaning into those places we perhaps can’t see or feel but know to exist.” - Tom Johnson
In the throws of transcendence unfurls the metamorphosis of unity.
“You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
-C.S Lewis
In Tune With the infinite Tour - June
We are delighted to say that tickets are selling fast for our ‘In Tune With The Infinite’ tour in June! This music, this performance is an offering of sonic ceremony. It is a journey of healing and discovery, giving rise to emotion and interconnection, offering a plain in which to walk between the realms of the conscious and the unconscious, between the internal and external. We will be playing in the sacred shape of the round with chairs laid out in concentric circles, to receive. It will be an odyssey and one we can’t wait to encounter with you all.
Get your tickets here
Some words recorded by audience members from the last performance in this carnation: “The closest thing I’ve ever had to a spiritual experience” / “A journey of shamanic proportion” / “The most profound performance of my life”
June 16th - Wales, Pembrokeshire - Newport Memorial Hall
June 17th - Bristol - The Mount Without
June 21st - Brighton - St Michaels & All Angels Church
June 22nd - London - Proposition Studios
The Preseli's Live Session
We are so excited to share with you our stripped back, three piece, live rendition of ‘The Preselis’ filmed beneath the Pre-Raphaelite stained glass windows of St Michaels & All Angels Church in Brighton where we will be brining our full 7 piece band on June 21st; It gives an insight into the realms we are to be channelling for the ‘In Tune With The Infinite Tour’ . Tickets are selling really well, so we urge you to get yours if you wish to experience a profound evening together!
The Preselis' Live
COMING THIS FRIDAY
Tour Dates
This June, The Road Records presents the ‘In Tune With The Infinite Tour’; an all artist-curated event, which will be taken to a small number of unique spaces around the UK. The Tour marks the release of SAMANA’s third album, which is a self titled record, and will be performed in the sacred circle of the round alongside their full string ensemble. Audience members will be immersed into an emotional dreamscape of vocals, bodhran, gongs, bells, horns, piano, electric guitars, double bass, drums, violin and cello.
BBC Radio Wales
Thank you Adam Walton for playing ‘The Knife’ on BBC Wales
“It’s such a brilliant, flashing, climax to the song!”
GOD IS IN THE TV
“Listen to the epic single ‘The Knife’, that swells majestically from subtle instrumentation and affecting tones of Rebecca Rose Harris, into a thrilling crescendo: an exhilarating release of noise and energy. “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. ”Their self titled third album has echoes of the otherworldly atmospherics of Nico, Mazzy Star, Keeley Forsyth, with a now bolstered (self) production canon that ranges from Ennio Morricone scores to Radiohead‘s more experimental moments.”
BBC Radio 6 Music
Thank you Guy Garvey for spinning ‘The Knife’ on BBC Radio 6 Music on Sunday!
“I love this band, every release gets my attention. It is very different and very compelling, like all their music!”
You can listen to the show here.
It’s Good Friday and we wish to extend a hand out to some seriously good people. We feel so honoured to have had the opportunity to have worked alongside some of the most profoundly talented individuals, in bringing our records to new found heights.
First, to James Osler who is a brother to both of us. Sharing a path with our favourite composer to bless this earth is the greatest honour for us. Your late late nights and early early mornings wreathed in tenacity and delirium have brought a wondrous dreamscape to the fabric of our art. We love you so so much.
To Jools Owen who is the beating pulse of so much magic behind the ethereal, longing horn lines which scatter the landscapes of many a song of ours. To Fraser Bowles for his incredible talent in making tangible, all those emotions we put to him as he soars in deep, meditative improvisation. To Richard for his unique tonal fingerprint which touches the music so deeply, and offers a hauntingly beautiful realm in its wake. To Hugo Scott, one of the truest artists we have come to know, for embodying the soul of the train for two wrongs. To Rhys Lovell for the depth and warmth you have brought with bow and heart to the music.To Rebecca bell for her incredible gift of embodying the music within her playing and offering a rock to her sweeping Melodies. To Shirley smart for her deeply moving performances though-out and finally to Owain Jenkins for opening up, with your generosity and genius, a new sonic journey which breathes even more rigour and depth into what is to come in the near future.
Happy Easter all!
With love and compassion,
F&R
”Happiness is only real, when shared…”
Christopher McCandless.
'In Tune With The Infinite' Tour
We are so, so excited to be performing our new album ‘SAMANA’ around the UK with our full band + strings in June! Join us for an entirely artistic curated evening that you will never forget.
June 16th - Wales - (Pembrokeshire) Newport Memorial Hall
June 17th - Bristol - The Mount Without
June 21st - Brighton - St Michaels Church
June 22nd - London - Proposition Studios
“It was the closest thing I’ve ever encountered to a spiritual experience”
-Interviewed Audience member
'The Knife' on BBC Radio Wales
A huge thank you to Adam Walton on BBC Wales for making ‘The Knife’ his long song of the week! “The long song is the song that I wish I could play to the legendary radio presenter Janice Long to try and get her to feature it on her program. She has very high standards. This week is Samana!” Listen from 1:14:03 to hear us speaking about ‘The Knife’
“It’s cosmic, That was something else!”
-Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales