A couple of years ago in a small, dirty room with unpolished wooden floors and a tuneless upright piano, two young men are sitting on the unmade bed surrounded by cables. One is playing a guitar, the other hitting a broken snare drum with one hand and percussively picking a detuned bouzouki with other. The air is thick with smoke and dust.
When the music draws to a finish, they stop the tape. A conversation strikes up about the quality of what they have just made. Would anyone agree to release it? Would anyone actually get to hear it? Well, what if……? |
Such was the beginning of the Drift Collective. An idea sparked between two friends in a house in Brighton expanded to become one of the most genuinely collaborative and respected small independent labels in the UK.
"Inventive, imaginative and different; long may they collect
together"
- Record Collector
"The Drift Family provide a near-miraculous
glimmer of frail, reflective humanity in a bullshit-filled
world" - Word Magazine
Under the labour of R G Morrison and Johny Lamb (for they were the two friends), the Drift Collective has expanded from Devon and Brighton to encompass musicians from across the UK and Ireland releasing a number of critically acclaimed albums and gaining huge amounts of praise for their various live shows, without ever losing the spirit of collaboration which inspired the label.
"Down at the roots of British folk, strange things continue
to stir. Devon's Drift label has a small but intriguing roster
of young talents" - The Observer
"More quality from the ever-excellent Drift Records" - Mixmag
Since that first shaky recording session in that dirty room, Drift have recorded in churches, basements, studios, sitting rooms, forests and bedsits and have played wherever they can to whoever cares to listen, some stages small and some very large. They have made a lot of friends, covered a lot of miles and slept on a lot of floors. And they are proud of what they have done.
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"It’s out on Drift Records
who are fast becoming one of the best UK indie’s ever.” - Is This Music
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