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Blood Blood Song continues East of the Valley Blues’ streak of sublime, future-forward acoustic fantasias. For years, the Toronto-based duo, comprised of brothers Kevin and Patrick Cahill, has excelled at an earthy and pensive brand of instrumental music inspired by notions of folk music as a global, rather than regional, idiom.

While the duo’s elegant and unassuming virtuosity easily distinguishes East of the Valley Blues from its contemporaries of would-be Bashos and fledgling Faheys, it is the group’s telepathic improv that provides the certain x-factor that ultimately sets it apart from its peers. Throughout Blood Blood Song, Kevin Cahill’s percussive, prepared nylon string guitar---occasionally evoking the sound of a begena—remains in constant conversation with his brother Patrick’s nimble steel string abstractions. Though the stereo separation places the brothers on opposite corners of the stereo field—Kevin mostly on the right and Patrick mostly on the left—the two guitars often create the illusion of appearing to meet in the middle, where they blend into a single, dynamic sound.

Blood Blood Song is an album of uncommon intimacy and grace. Of music that doesn’t so much develop as unspool. Music that blooms.

- James Toth / Wooden Wand

Recording: 23rd of August, 2025
Location: Southampton, ON
Master: Andrew Weathers
Artwork: Ryan Waldron
Design: Matt Irwin

TRACK LISTING

01: Sitting in the Poem
02: The Spider Underneath
03: April 28, 1934 / Fahey Cup
04: When Our Reflections Go Cold
05: Like Fitzcarraldo
06: Anywhere Is Nowhere
07: The Shape of Punk Blues to Come