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Raf Rundell

Raf Rundell - O.M. Days (Coloured 'Eco Wax' Vinyl) (Heavenly Recordings)

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RELEASED: 9th April 2021
Coloured 'Eco Wax' Vinyl LP

Format:  Coloured 'Eco Wax' Vinyl LP
Cat No:  HVNLP181C

Raf Rundell announces the release of his second album, ‘O.M. Days’, released on Heavenly Recordings.

The cover features a striking Keith Haring-meets-the Green Man image from acclaimed artist and longtime collaborator Ben Edge, the picture was inspired by the folk tale of the giant of Dawson, who is both male and female, human and vegetation and lived in the imagination of Dawson’s Hill, a stretch of South London parkland a stone’s throw away from Dawson’s Heights, the flats featured on the cover of the debut album ‘Stop Lying’.

Edge and Rundell, for reasons they can’t entirely comprehend, concocted a rite which took place the first full moon after this year’s summer solstice (the results of which can be seen in the short film trailer for the album). This involved the giant - also known as Tommy Hill Figure - being created on Dawson’s Hill. “Ben’s been digging deeper and deeper into ancient myths, the green man, all the stuff that’s been co-opted by organised religion,” Rundell explains. All this chimed with him because he is a magnet for signs and symbols. He has been ever since his Mod-loving parents named him after the RAF roundel symbol. “We’d been talking about this sort of stuff a lot,” Rundell continues. “The rite was about the birth of the new and using the coronavirus as a catalyst for that change, like a full stop to the way things were before. The corona was called the spark in the ceremony, although we’re not being too specific about the virus because this is a thing we hope to do annually.”

This is the backdrop to the album, a record far larger and more confident than its creator could ever have imagined. Unlike his itinerantly created previous records, ‘O.M. Days’ was entirely recorded in the same Forest Hill studio, with the aforementioned collaborators. “I love collaborating with people - like Lias Saoudi or Andy Jenkins, who are both on this record - that’s where it’s at for me,” Rundell says. “I worked really hard on this one. And although I had no plan about where it was going, I always have a notion about how I want things to sound. I had a particular idea about that.”

Features guest appearances from Chas Jankel, Lias Saoudi, Terri Walker, Andy Jenkins and Man & The Echo.

TRACKLISTING:

1. More U Know
2. Down
3. Monsterpiece
4. Ample Change (ft. Lias Saoudi)
5. Always Fly (ft. Terri Walker)
6. Luxury (ft. Man & The Echo)
7. Miracle
8. The Ides Of Albion
9. Turning Tides
10. Butter Gold (ft. Andy Jenkins)