“Rachael Dadd can’t stop creating beautiful things, both tactile and musical”
John Kennedy (Xfm) for Dazed & Confused



“A beautiful slice of modern-tainted folk… inspiring, spellbinding and most importantly an excellent example of accomplished penmanship”
The Line Of Best Fit

“Delicate, thoughtful and precise… one of the most fascinating female talents we’ve come across”
For Folks Sake

On 1st August 2011 her new album Bite The Mountain will be released through Broken Sound Music (Forest Fire, The Mariner’s Children, Tristram, Peggy Sue). The album is a collection of moment-in-time recordings, mostly recorded onto tape at various studios over a 2 month period during her recent travels in Japan.

Bite The Mountain showcases Rachael as an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, where she turns her hands to clarinet, piano, ukulele, banjo, guitar, thumb piano, percussion, and layers of harmony – carefully overdubbing parts until the songs become whole. Although nearly everything on the album is played by Rachael herself, she is also joined by long-term collaborator Rozi Plain (Fence Collective, backing vocals), experimental Japanese musician Ichi (Coup Records, steel pans), Japanese composer Aki Tsuyuko (Thrill Jockey Records, organ), Inada Makoto from improvisational band PAAP (double bass), and Maher Shalal Hash Baz member Yumi Ozaki (Domino Records, percussion). The album beautifully ties together Rachael’s loves of Japan, the Brooklyn anti-folk scene, traditional folk music, and contemporary experimental arrangement.

Very few artists manage to tour the world, and yet still retain their DIY ethos and their ability to keep everything intimate. Rachael Dadd is one of these very special souls. Bite The Mountain is a diary-like account of her past year’s travels, an intimate window into the world of one of folk’s most secretive artists.