“Adventurous and spellbinding work that fuses traditional and contemporary, political and poetic.”
Q Magazine ****
David Randall is a guitarist, producer and composer. He has contributed to multi-million selling albums by Grammy Award winning artist Dido and has toured the world a number of times 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 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' and has been invited to join Sinead O'Connor's new band, who will be touring throughout 2012.
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 documentary 'Rebuilding Hope' (set in the US and Sudan), the internationally acclaimed contemporary dance/juggling company 'Feeding The Fish' and the British Council / Maslaha exhibition 'The City Speaks'. He has also contributed music to numerous BBC and independent television programmes and has been appointed music director of the Gogolingo educational initiative (set up by Afsoun Yazdian formerly of Sesame Street).
Politics and internationalism are themes that run through much of Randall's work. As well as making music he has published articles on the role of music in political campaigns and on Palestinian Hip-Hop. He lives in Brixton, South London.
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 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' and has been invited to join Sinead O'Connor's new band, who will be touring throughout 2012.
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 documentary 'Rebuilding Hope' (set in the US and Sudan), the internationally acclaimed contemporary dance/juggling company 'Feeding The Fish' and the British Council / Maslaha exhibition 'The City Speaks'. He has also contributed music to numerous BBC and independent television programmes and has been appointed music director of the Gogolingo educational initiative (set up by Afsoun Yazdian formerly of Sesame Street).
Politics and internationalism are themes that run through much of Randall's work. As well as making music he has published articles on the role of music in political campaigns and on Palestinian Hip-Hop. He lives in Brixton, South London.
