Bound to Rise: Vinyl LP

Label: Big Sun Records
Release Date: 26th May

What a beauty of a folk record this is, intimate and recorded live to analog tape, i places you in the room with Chris, a record that really slows you to a standstill and less demands your focus but to be with the record. 

For those who dig: John Martyn, Nick Drake, Trevor Beales, Jim Ghedi, Ryley Walker...

Bound to Rise" is the debut album from Leeds based, Yorkshire born artist Chris Brain
Recorded onto analog tape, the album consists of 10 live performances that offer an enthralling meditation on nature, with glimpses of the confessional.
Recorded at The Nave in Leeds with producer Tom Orrell (Koyo, Weirds, Wandering Monster), Bound to Rise is a debut that captures the shoulder- to- shoulder warmth of a live setting. Firmly rooted in place, from the choice of recording location to its lyrical content enveloped in soaring figures from the natural world, Chris Brain renders a work embedded in folk tradition and the pastoral, with a contemporary resonance.
Glancing off The Nave's eaved ceilings, each track arrives in an alternate tuning and uses distinctive fingerpicking patterns that place Bound to Rise on the shelf right next to the likes of Pink Moon and London Conversation.