SHroudings

shroudings’ debut record will be released in September 2026.

A press release is available here.

The songs are:

  1. fellbloom (dixon/carbo)

  2. tightropes & ghost trains (dixon/a. tolmie)

  3. the barghast’s reel (dixon/dupé/randall)

  4. the green cathedral (dixon)

  5. brandy & morphine (dixon/murphy-haste/telford/a.tolmie)

  6. yesnaby (alexander/dixon/peart)

  7. she moved through the fair (traditional, arranged dixon/dupé)

  8. lake without birds (alexander/dixon/ randall/a.tolmie/j.tolmie)

For complete lyrics, click here.

For this record, shroudings was:

Robin Dixon: voice (1,3,6,7,8), long-neck banjo (3,5), parlour guitar (4,8), double bass (4,5), piano (5,6), cuatro (1), cello (6), vihuela (6), autoharp (8), nylon-string guitar (8), mountain dulcimer (2), organ (6), words (1,3,4,5,8)

Tony Dupé: cello (1, 2,3,7), Dulcitone (1,3,7), double bass (2,7), vibraphone (1), bowed vibraphone (2), clarinet (7), piano (8), arrangements and production magic (1-8)

Claire Deak: harp (3,7), piano (1,3) percussion (3), spinet harpsichord (3)

Phillippa Murphy-Haste: clarinet, bass clarinet and wind arrangements (5)

Mirabai Peart: violin and string arrangements (4,5,6)

Jess Randall: violin (8), fiddle (3), string arrangements (3,8)

Stu West: trumpet and flugelhorn (1,5) 

Ben James: drums (4,5)

Flora Carbo: alto saxophone (1)

Chris Browne: baritone saxophone (5)

Sophie Grattan-Smith: trumpet (8)

Darrell Archer: acoustic guitar (3)

Nick Wilson: piano (8)

Hannah Pelka-Caven: voice (1,4)

Alex Tolmie: voice (2), words and vocal melody (2,5), choral arrangements (8)

Natasha Koch: voice (3,7)

Rubaiyat Howlader: voice (4)

Sonia Zadro: voice (5)

Jason Tolmie: words and vocal melody (8)

Lydia Alexander: words (6, 8)

Haidee Ireland, Libby Bramble, Rubaiyat Howlader, Tim Byron, Vanessa Fookes, Paul Andrews, Richard Parkin, Dave Carr, Mahesh Radhakrishnan, Betony Dircks: choir vocals

Ben Worsey at Everland Studios: recording, engineering, mixing

Roy Two Thousand: recording

Tony Dupé at abandoned fireworks factory: recording, mixing, arrangements

JJ Golden at Golden Mastering: mastering

Rosie Tainsh: cover image

shroudings plays live very rarely. On these occasions, the live band has included Mirabai Peart, Peter Hollo, Kell Derrig-Hall, Phillippa Murphy-Haste, Jessica Lyons, Rubaiyat Howlader, Piers Twomey, Sonia Zadro, Libby Bramble, and Emily Edwards. 

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with thanks to: all the players and composers on this record–you brought so much life to my sketches. particular thanks to ben, mira and pippa for being there right at the beginning, and tony and claire for being there right at the end. everyone else i’ve played, written, watched and discussed music with over the last few decades. particular thanks to the derwent river stars, the leichhardt international ukestra, and the shroudings live band. 

special thanks to: lydia, aphra and art. david and melinda dixon. heather-jane and roger parks. my friends alex, brendan, dave, haidee, harriet, kath, kell, lia, luke, mahesh, melina, monica, shakthi. brett every for the songwriting advice. harry and sophia alexander. the department of theatre and performance studies, sydney university. The care teams at sjog burwood and matilda nepean hospital. pete’s musicians market, katoomba music and halcyon daze records.   

 

this one is for aphra and art