“Adventurous and spellbinding work that fuses traditional and contemporary, political and poetic.”
Q Magazine ****
Dave 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 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', who released their debut album in September 2012. He's currently performing live with Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals).
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) and 'Witness Bahrain'.
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.
He has contributed music to numerous BBC and independent television programmes and was appointed music director of the Gogolingo educational initiative (set up by Afsoun Yazdian formerly of Sesame Street).
As well as making music Dave has published numerous articles and given talks on the history of music and its role in society. His debut book Sound System – The Political Power of Music will be published on Pluto Press in March 2017.
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 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', who released their debut album in September 2012. He's currently performing live with Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals).
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) and 'Witness Bahrain'.
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.
He has contributed music to numerous BBC and independent television programmes and was appointed music director of the Gogolingo educational initiative (set up by Afsoun Yazdian formerly of Sesame Street).
As well as making music Dave has published numerous articles and given talks on the history of music and its role in society. His debut book Sound System – The Political Power of Music will be published on Pluto Press in March 2017.
He lives in Brixton, South London.
