Wales born, Brighton-based instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is a celebrated champion of the finger-picked guitar. She has drawn international acclaim for her repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody her roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, inventing a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. The Guardian has described her as a “profound talent” whilst The Observer has praised her “awe-inspiring technique and intense musicality”, and Uncut Magazine has championed her “fast-developing talents as a composer of eerie menace.”

Having toured Europe, the US and Canada with the likes of Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, The Handsome Family, Lankum, Charlie Parr, Richard Dawson, Ryley Walker and Squid, and played major festivals including WOMAD, Green Man, End of the Road and Transmusicales in France, Raymond recorded her latest album Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark in similar fashion; exploring textures and following threads alone in her flat’s home studio, trying to get a sonic grip on a world spinning out of control. The album is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic where, in Raymond’s multi-dimensional finger-work, the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos, the earthly meeting the stellar on some far-off event horizon.