Tearing Down Walls
February 5th 2025
“Their eponymous debut captur[es] the close-knit improvisational nature of their live performance…The three meld closely to work as one…circling in a perfectly balanced orbit around the tune. Their playing is nuanced as an ensemble and as soloists, rising wraithlike up through the music“
Songlines
After touring extensively across the UK and Europe, in 2024 the trio returned to the studio of multi-award-winning producer and engineer Julie McLarnon, whose unique style of production and engineering have earned awards by the fistful for the likes of Lankum and Yorkston/Thorne/Khan.
Recording exclusively to tape from start to finish at Analogue Catalogue Studios, the trio’s second album is built on a foundation of virtuosic creativity. Tearing Down Walls is a joy of incredible musicianship that dissolves the borders of musical genres.
The trio’s self-titled first album Gavin Fairhall Lever is already available on CD, Vinyl, and digital download.
“The vibrant trio bring their multi-instrumental talents to an impressive collection of mostly original material that is an absolute blast to listen to. One of my top favourites of the year… Brilliant”
RnR ****
“Gavin Fairhall Lever’s ecstatic and adventurous music is a giddy series of tone poems; the sizzling, smoking fiddle and the insistent, questing guitar dart wild and free over a solid anchor of the double bass…razor-sharp composing and surefire musical virtuosity”
FolkWales
