SOLO UK FOLK STARS KATHRYN WILLIAMS AND NEILL MACCOLL SIGN WITH NETTWERK TO RELEASE NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT ALBUM

SOLO UK FOLK STARS KATHRYN WILLIAMS AND NEILL MACCOLL SIGN WITH NETTWERK TO RELEASE NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT ALBUM

TWO SET FOR RELEASE THIS SPRING;
FIRST SINGLE, “COME WITH ME”, OUT MARCH 17th on iTUNES
“It just isn’t possible that there will be a sweeter, more sincere album released this year.” — BBC

Supremely talented Mercury prize nominee Kathryn Williams and amazing guitarist/vocalist Neill MacColl teamed up to record TWO, one of the most astonishingly beautiful albums to see the light of day in recent years. Two will be released this Spring through Nettwerk Music Group; the first single, “Come With Me,” will be digitally released with a bonus track, “Ghost”, on March 17 through iTunes.

Williams has become known as one of the UK’s most respected singer/songwriters and was honored with a Mercury Prize nomination in 2000. MacColl is the son of Ewan MacColl, who wrote “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” for his mother Peggy Seeger. The two met at the Daughters of Albion concert (part of the BBC’s Folk Britannia season), where they had been paired to perform “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”

“We just clicked, we didn’t need to say anything on stage, we could read where the other was going,” recalls Kathryn. MacColl adds, “We locked ourselves in a room for a few days and the songs just poured out of us. The way we write and play together is like we’re both steering the same ship- in the most natural and instinctive way.”

Once they had written the songs that would eventually become Two – which took only six days, the newly formed duo brought in veteran engineer/producer Phill Brown (whose credits include Stairway To Heaven alongside numerous seminal albums by the likes of the Rolling Stones, John Martyn, Roxy Music and Brian Eno). The album was mixed in just five days, and the result is a record in its truest sense: a record of an event. The event is a group of people standing in a room and playing a song together; the listener is invited to share in this world of intimacy, the natural affinity of two human beings moving in symmetry. This is the world of Two.

Two has already earned much critical praise from many UK based publications. NME said, “Two was always going to be special…8/10.” Mojo described the album as “Warm and intimate.” They go on to anticipate, “Don’t rule out future awards nominations.”