Doran - "Deer People Reprise" (Official Video)

Описание: Official video for Doran's "Deer People Reprise" on their self-titled debut.
Animation by Channing Showalter.

DORAN is out November 5, 2021 on SPINSTER
Buy from label (cassette/CD/digital): https://dorantheband.bandcamp.com/alb...

Taking their name from a children’s fantasy novel, Doran is a four-person freak folk collective hailing from rural Virginia, New York City, and the Pacific Northwest. Together, singer and banjo-player Elizabeth LaPrelle (Anna & Elizabeth), multi-media performance artists and musicians Channing Showalter and Annie Schermer (West of Roan), and songwriter and producer Brian Dolphin draw from their respective work in story, song, archetype and image, and advance it into an untapped experimental terrain that is newly raw, wintry, moody, and tender. The result is an intimately collaborative record of rich and often eerie modal harmonies, supported by sparse acoustic arrangements, and grounded by the group’s strong background in traditional Appalachian ballad singing, Eastern European polyphony, Celtic folklore, and improvisation. Songs ranging from sorrowful to playful twine together in a hauntingly beautiful cohesive album one could imagine hearing on the soundtrack of the next A24 folk horror film. Doran’s layered, searching debut reaches into the spaces between self and other, past and future, inner landscape and outer, and returns with a new language to describe the journey.

Recorded in an attic in Rural Retreat, Virginia, during a month-long residency in January 2019, Doran explores the edges between tradition and innovation in song, myth, and ceremony. As the band practiced creative prompts and performed rituals of burying their bodies in leaves, lighting “failure lanterns,” pulling Tarot, stewing bone broth, and spinning a harp in a web of red yarn, twelve original songs emerged. At the intro of “And We Are Going,” violinist and vocalist Annie Schermer says, “You planned it, and you asked for it, and now it’s happening.” Her words were about Brian’s eagerness to start recording, yet over time that phrase and the chorus, “and we are going where we wanted to go,” evolved to become a mantra for the members of Doran’s musical lives—a prayer in the midst of chaos and uncertainty that as artists they might go where they wanted to, where they asked and planned to go."

Doran was engineered and mixed by Brian Dolphin in Rural Retreat, Virginia, and mixed and mastered by Joseph DeJarnette at Studio808A in Floyd, Virginia.