Multi-disciplinary artist Charlie Beresford—visual artist, guitarist, singer, instrument designer, engineer, and filmmaker—has long carved a distinctive path through the musical landscape, weaving together strands of folk, modern classical, and jazz into a sound uniquely his own. His acclaimed body of work includes two solo albums and a wide range of collaborations with the likes of bassist Tim Harries, cellist Sonia Hammond, guitarist Christian Vasseur, and many others. In 2010, he co-founded the boundary-blurring quartet Fourth Page, whose combination of songcraft and impressionistic improvisation has drawn comparisons to artists as diverse as David Sylvian and Franz Schubert.
Peter Marsh has been heard alongside improv heayweights like Alan Wilkinson and Lol Coxhill, avant bluesy songwriters like Duke Garwood and Petra Jean Phillipson, bands like spiritual free jazz collective Woven Entity, dubby psych jazz outfit The Quiet Temple, electro-acoustic improvisers Sonnamble, bluegrass/klezmer band Kneytsh, and lots more. He’s provided live and recorded soundtracks for film makers Laura Cooper and Sami van Ingen. He currently collaborates with drummer Tom Clarke in Shark Calmer, and is a member of Camberwell based psych blues funk quintet Little Number. Back in 2010 he met Charlie Beresford and became a member of Fourth Page on the same day, spending ten years with the band.
In the deep midwinter of 2024–2025, these two old friends reunited in the Welsh countryside. With an open fire crackling and the kettle on, they sat down and played—with no agenda, no map, and no need for one. What emerged from those sessions is music hard to classify—but easy to feel. Think: abstract blues, warped drones, flickers of pastoral folk, deep listening. Songs. It’s music that sounds like it’s from somewhere or maybe somewhen else…
You could call it English/Welsh Primitive. You coukd call it traditional music from an imaginary land. Whatever it is, this is it.
We hope you like it.