Morgan Rider And The Deep Dark River
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Release Date: November 22, 2019
Label: North Soul Records
Distribution: CD Baby
Morgan Rider and The Deep Dark River combine all the humble qualities of blues, folk and classical into a well-balanced, artfully crafted musical reflection on life, hope and old-fashioned storytelling while delivering a uniquely fresh and uplifting listening experience. Morgan Rider’s voice and guitar rise and fall in perfect synchronicity with Nathen Morrison’s stirring cello accompaniment – giving life to a sound that they lovingly describe as ‘haunting folk’.
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“From the outset, Morgan Rider’s Deep Dark River is a pilgrimage into the unknown, the Canadian heart at the very centre of the album is one that intrigues, one that has the nostrils twitching in the wildness of the experience, but one that understands that whilst the scenery is one shrouded by the shadow of the timber wolf sniffing the air in search of fresh blood, it is the soul of the Canadian nature that makes the experience charming, beautiful and positive.” – Liverpool Vision and Sound, 2018
“An album that resonates in the part of the mind that deals with dreams, imagination and the race memory of what it was once to acknowledge the fables of our land, the legends and myths that come swarming out of the dense mist” – Liverpool Vision and Sound, 2019
“…to go from epic death metal to strumming an acoustic and singing folk/bluessongs…” – Metroland Media, 2019
“There have been heavy rains in Mumbai in the past couple of weeks. An album that I found myself listening during this time was King of the Forest, the latest release from Canadian act Deep Dark River. The gloomy weather further enhanced the album’s dark sound.” – Trendcrusher, 2019
TOUR DATES
10.13 – Pickering, ON – OpenStudio Art Cafe (Morgan solo)
10.15 – Whitby, ON – The Pearson (Morgan solo)
10.16 – Lindsay, ON – Coach & Horses (Morgan solo)
10.19 – Whitby, ON – Town Brewery (Morgan solo)
10.24 – Oshawa, ON – Cork & Bean (duo)
10.26 – Waterloo, ON – The Beat Goes On (Morgan solo)
10.20 – Gravenhurst, ON – The Oar (Morgan solo)
11.01 – Campbellford, ON – Church Key Grindhouse (Morgan solo)
11.02 – Pickering, ON – OpenStudio Art Cafe (duo)
11.03 – Peterborough, ON – The Black Horse (Morgan solo)
11.15 – Bowmanville, ON – Manantler Craft Brewing (Morgan solo)
11.16 – Huntsville, ON – Huntsville Alehouse (Morgan solo)
11.21 – Kingston, ON – Musiikki (Morgan solo)
11.22 – Lindsay, ON – Boiling Over’s (Morgan solo)
12.27 – Perth, ON – Fiddleheads (Morgan solo)
12.28 – Toronto, ON – Cherry Cola’s (LEVIATHAN ALBUM RELEASE PARTY)
Album Title: Leviathan & The Deep Dark Blue
Release Date: November 22, 2019
Label: North Soul Records
Distribution: CD Baby
Track Listing of Album:
1 – Beneath The Crushing Tides (2:12)
2 – The Immeasurable Fathoms (6:35)
3 – Dread (4:38)
4 – Ignite The Tempests (5:01)
5 – The Seafaerers (4:50)
6 – When The Waves Are Stilled (7:15)
7 – Where the Light May Never Reach (2:53)
8 – The Immeasurable Fathoms (Acoustic) (4:59)
9 – Dread (Acoustic) (4:00)
10 – Ignite The Tempests (Acoustic) (5:33)
11 – The Seafaerers (Acoustic) (5:02)
12 – When The Waves Are Stilled (Acoustic) (5:28)
Album Length: 58:31
Album Credits:
• All songs performed by: Morgan Rider and the Deep Dark River
• All songs written by: Morgan Rider
• Produced by: Morgan Rider
• Mixed by: Morgan Rider
• Mastered by: Morgan Rider
• Album Artwork by: Morgan Rider
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Album Band Line Up:
Morgan Rider – Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Slide Guitar, Piano, Synth, Percussion
Nathen Morrison – Cello
Ty Burt – Mandolin
Live Band Line Up: Morgan Rider – Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Nathen Morrison – Cello
Ty Burt – Mandolin
Julian Craig – Drums
Casey Elliott – Guitar/ Bass
Sean Battams – Violin
Discography:
2019 – Morgan Rider and The Deep Dark River – Leviathan & The Deep, Dark Blue – LP (North Soul Records)
2019 – Morgan Rider and The Deep Dark River – King of the Forest – LP (North Soul Records)
2018 – Morgan Rider – Deep Dark River – Self-Titled LP
Shared stage with:
The Doozies, Vesperia, The Dead South, Novembers Doom, Panzerfaust, Eclipse Eternal, Within Nostalgia, Kittie, Empyrean Plague, Jack Pine and the Fire, Musk Ox, Cecile Monique, Johnny Nocash and the Celtic Outlaws, Within Nostalgia
Tours and Festivals:
2019 – UK Tour – England, Scotland
2019 – Keene Summer Festival – Keene, ON
2019 – Kaleidoscope Gathering Festival – Eganville, ON
2019 – Solstice Festival – Newcastle, ON
2018 – Canadian West Coast Tour – Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, BC
2018 – Solstice Festival – Newcastle, ON
2018 – Canadian East Coast Tour – PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
Music Placements: (Movies, Commercials)
2018 – Lexus Luxury Vehicles Co. – Fall Online Ad Campaign
Artist endorsements for Morgan Rider: Ibanez Guitars, Traynor Amps
L-R: Morgan Rider [Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Percussion], Nathen Morrison [Cello]
Photo Credit:
Born in 1989, singer, song-smith and multi-instrumentalist Morgan Rider had his earliest imaginings of life as a
musician while contending with an often tumultuous childhood. Overhearing his mother – who is a trained operatic
soprano – his love and understanding of music blossomed at an early age. Morgan eventually spending his
adolescent and early adult years performing in touring metal bands – appearing on tours and large festivals across
North America and Europe.
During the summer of 2017, Morgan’s adoration of folk, classical and blues music finally culminated into a project and the beginnings of a collection of songs. The name Deep Dark River had been stuck in his head for years, as a
byproduct of his writings and alluding to the very nature of his ideas as a musician and artist. As such, Deep Dark
River became the name by which he would perform beneath.
While his ideas began to take form, so did his mindset for what became the early stages of Deep Dark River. In March of 2018, the first original Deep Dark River single ‘The Golden Bough’ was released digitally worldwide. Morgan began performing live and also toured solo to the Canadian east coast to promote the single. In the summer of 2018, the debut album Deep Dark River was released and supported with a full Canadian solo tour over 5 weeks.
As 2018 neared it end, Morgan called upon his friend Nathen Morrison to contribute cello to the sounds of Deep Dark River, solidifying the project as a duo. The pair immediately began rehearsing and recording the first of a four-album quadrilogy – which Morgan had written the bulk of on his travels. The first single featuring the pair – Starfire – was released in March of 2019 along with the album “King of The Forest” released on June 21st, 2019 via North Soul Records. Not slowing down, the pair have their next album just months later “Leviathan & The Deep Dark Blue” planned for release via North Soul Records on November 22nd, 2019 with its lead single ‘The Seafaerers’.
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