Roger Robinson - Ghost

'An album that lyrically recalls the most incisive and suggestive lyricists in dub and roots reggae'
-The Quietus

Lots of voltage, old school samplers, DIY synths, home made delays, dictaphones and even onboard computer mics this gritty disc will take you straight to Brixton's streets.
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Wheel And Come Again

Dis Side Ah Town

A Letter To Brixton

Move Way Babylon

Strictly

Walk With Me

Smash And Scatteration

Bun Bun Bun is the first release from the new mixtape DOG HEART CITY - RELEASE DATE JANUARY 27th 2017

Following the highly acclaimed album “Dis Side Ah Town” Roger Robinson and Disrupt return with a reel full of new tales about survival in a Dog Heart City. These stories, delivered in Robinson’s full vocal spectrum between low-end dub poetry tremors and haunting falsetto singing, try to make the invisible lives visible: giving people affected by gentrification, racism, unemployment and low wage work a sense of authority and aesthetic nobility.

Dog Heart City

BUN BUN BUN

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Bun Bun Bun

The second release and title track from the upcoming mixtape DOG HEART CITY released 27.01.2016 on Jahtari - GET IT AT https://jahtari.bandcamp.com/album/dog-heart-city

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Dog Heart City Promo

This talk was based on his series of artist tweets to rev up participants inspiration, exploring ways to beat a creative slump and think productively about creative habits. This talk includes practical tips.

Unlocking Your Creativity Talk  at The Free Word Centre for Apples and Snakes

Billy The Kid
I wanted to show the context for someone who might be considered hyper violent and how it’s often linked to childhood trauma.

This ep of new songs champions the anti hero and draws parallels with radical survival in the present political and economic climate.

Taking its influences from Narcocorridos and outlaw country as well as far western folklore, the ep forges a new subgenre that Horsedreamers today call gangsta folk.

Their focus is lush instrumentation , story songs. They leave you with the experience of being submerged in a really great epic film where there are no heroes and affecting humility being the only option left. 

Roger Robinson  (from the band King Midas Sound) began writing the lyrics for what would later become Horsedreamer back in 2009 but it wasn’t until he teamed up with veteran folk songwriter and producer Piers Faccini that the project was born. Over the course of the sessions in Piers Faccini’s studio in the foothills of the south of France, they set to work writing and recording a collection of songs for the two ep's.

The songs were born out of Robinson’s gifts as a poet/lyricist and Faccini’s skill in creating melodies and arrangements to marry the strength of the lyric. Like two artisans in the ancient craft of songwriting, they set to work in the solitude of Faccini ’s studio in the woods, crafting haunting collection of songs and stories.

Friends for years their writing partnership is also bolstered by the fact that in their collective family histories lay half the worlds roaming and immigrant peoples. A fact reflected in their songs. The constant melancholy of being an outsider, but also the rebelliousness and survival instincts of displaced peoples.

They are about to kick off their live tour with dates in France and England look for them riding through your town.

Hear My Voice #3

Billy The Kid

Trigger
Not so much about robberies but more about being ride or die and the struggles and joys this couple had together.

This ep of new songs champions the anti hero and draws parallels with radical survival in the present political and economic climate.

Taking its influences from Narcocorridos and outlaw country as well as far western folklore, the ep forges a new subgenre that Horsedreamers today call gangsta folk.

Their focus is lush instrumentation , story songs. They leave you with the experience of being submerged in a really great epic film where there are no heroes and affecting humility being the only option left. 

Roger Robinson  (from the band King Midas Sound) began writing the lyrics for what would later become Horsedreamer back in 2009 but it wasn’t until he teamed up with veteran folk songwriter and producer Piers Faccini that the project was born. Over the course of the sessions in Piers Faccini’s studio in the foothills of the south of France, they set to work writing and recording a collection of songs for the two ep's.

The songs were born out of Robinson’s gifts as a poet/lyricist and Faccini’s skill in creating melodies and arrangements to marry the strength of the lyric. Like two artisans in the ancient craft of songwriting, they set to work in the solitude of Faccini ’s studio in the woods, crafting haunting collection of songs and stories.

Friends for years their writing partnership is also bolstered by the fact that in their collective family histories lay half the worlds roaming and immigrant peoples. A fact reflected in their songs. The constant melancholy of being an outsider, but also the rebelliousness and survival instincts of displaced peoples.

They are about to kick off their live tour with dates in France and England look for them riding through your town.

Trigger

A Thousand Stallions
About that feeling of family home or belonging and how trying to get money can take you away from that feeling.

This ep of new songs champions the anti hero and draws parallels with radical survival in the present political and economic climate.

Taking its influences from Narcocorridos and outlaw country as well as far western folklore, the ep forges a new subgenre that Horsedreamers today call gangsta folk.

Their focus is lush instrumentation , story songs. They leave you with the experience of being submerged in a really great epic film where there are no heroes and affecting humility being the only option left. 

Roger Robinson  (from the band King Midas Sound) began writing the lyrics for what would later become Horsedreamer back in 2009 but it wasn’t until he teamed up with veteran folk songwriter and producer Piers Faccini that the project was born. Over the course of the sessions in Piers Faccini’s studio in the foothills of the south of France, they set to work writing and recording a collection of songs for the two ep's.

The songs were born out of Robinson’s gifts as a poet/lyricist and Faccini’s skill in creating melodies and arrangements to marry the strength of the lyric. Like two artisans in the ancient craft of songwriting, they set to work in the solitude of Faccini ’s studio in the woods, crafting haunting collection of songs and stories.

Friends for years their writing partnership is also bolstered by the fact that in their collective family histories lay half the worlds roaming and immigrant peoples. A fact reflected in their songs. The constant melancholy of being an outsider, but also the rebelliousness and survival instincts of displaced peoples.

They are about to kick off their live tour with dates in France and England look for them riding through your town.

A Thousand Stallions

Sweetmeat
There’s a point in your survival where you give up you lose the tension of trying to survive and you relax into whatever is going to happen.

This ep of new songs champions the anti hero and draws parallels with radical survival in the present political and economic climate.

Taking its influences from Narcocorridos and outlaw country as well as far western folklore, the ep forges a new subgenre that Horsedreamers today call gangsta folk.

Their focus is lush instrumentation , story songs. They leave you with the experience of being submerged in a really great epic film where there are no heroes and affecting humility being the only option left. 

Roger Robinson  (from the band King Midas Sound) began writing the lyrics for what would later become Horsedreamer back in 2009 but it wasn’t until he teamed up with veteran folk songwriter and producer Piers Faccini that the project was born. Over the course of the sessions in Piers Faccini’s studio in the foothills of the south of France, they set to work writing and recording a collection of songs for the two ep's.

The songs were born out of Robinson’s gifts as a poet/lyricist and Faccini’s skill in creating melodies and arrangements to marry the strength of the lyric. Like two artisans in the ancient craft of songwriting, they set to work in the solitude of Faccini ’s studio in the woods, crafting haunting collection of songs and stories.

Friends for years their writing partnership is also bolstered by the fact that in their collective family histories lay half the worlds roaming and immigrant peoples. A fact reflected in their songs. The constant melancholy of being an outsider, but also the rebelliousness and survival instincts of displaced peoples.

They are about to kick off their live tour with dates in France and England look for them riding through your town.

Sweet Meat

Roger is a Trinidadian writer and performer who has lived in London for 20 years. He has performed worldwide and is an experienced workshop leader and lecturer on poetry. He was chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon. 

His solo music album Illclectica was released in 2004 on Altered Vibes and was named by Mojo Magazine as number eight in the top ten electronic albums for that year.
Robinson is a founding member of the band King Midas Sound whose critically acclaimed debut album ‘Waiting for You’ was released on Hyperdub Records. It came in at number 10 in the top 50 releases of 2009 in Wire Magazine. 

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