Jim Ghedi - In The Furrows Of Common Place

Released 8th January 2021.

Instead of landscape sketches I wanted to go into more personal areas of my reality, says Jim Ghedi of his third album In The Furrows Of Common Place. To hold up certain aspects of society that were laying bare in front of me.

Whilst Ghedis previous idiosyncratic take on folk has often been instrumental, exploring the natural world and his relationship to it through his music as seen on 2018's A Hymn For Ancient Land. His new album In The Furrow Of Common Place is a deeper plunge inside himself to offer up more of his voice to accompany his profoundly unique and moving compositions. There were things I was seeing around me and being affected by in my daily life, he says. Socially and politically I saw defiance but also hopelessness. I wanted to be honest with the frustration and turmoil I was experiencing.

The decision to include more of Ghedis vocals was a conscious one and driven by a need to say s