Dave Randall
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“Adventurous and spellbinding work that fuses traditional and contemporary, political and poetic.”
  Q Magazine ****

“A wonderful album that is both stridently polemical and determinedly celebratory”
The Sunday Times 

Dave Randall is a guitarist, producer and composer. He has contributed to Grammy Award winning albums by Dido and has toured the world performing with UK dance act Faithless. His own critically acclaimed albums released under the name Slovo feature international collaborations with artists including Iceland's Emiliana Torrini, West Africa's Maezah and US jazz legend Max Roach. To visit the site dedicated to Dave's work as a guitarist click here.

Dave was invited to appear alongside Baaba Maal, Michael Stipe, the Mahotella Queens, Neneh Cherry and others, in the studio and on stage, as part of the 1 Giant Leap project. Recently he has toured with Sinead O'Connor, and teamed up with Big Dada artist Mike Ladd, clarinet player Carol Robinson and drummer Dirk Rothbrust to create the Paris based improvising quartet 'Sleeping In Vilna'. He's currently performing live with Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals) and has just completed a new Slovo album which will be released in July 2020.

Dave brings this wealth of knowledge of international music to his compositions for screen and stage. He has recently produced music for the feature length documentaries 'Rebuilding Hope' (set in the US and Sudan), 'Witness Bahrain' and 'There Is A Field' (set in the USA and Palestine).
He has also composed music for the contemporary dance/juggling company 'Feeding The Fish', the acclaimed Palestinian dance company Al Zaytouna and the Robert Swinston dance company. 
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Dave is also the author of Sound System – The Political Power of Music  (Pluto Press 2017).

He lives in Brixton, South London.


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