Arianne Churchman and Benedict Drew

Arianne Churchman and Benedict Drew are visual artists and musicians. Based in London and Kent their work together draws from English traditional music, minimalism, music concrete and electronic music.

Using analogue synthesisers, acoustic instruments and layered vocals their work starts with traditional song with its lyrics corrupted and reimagined, it is then woven into sonic collages and landscapes, each layer spiraling out a little further from the last building into ecstatic melodies, rhythms and dreamscapes.

Since 2020 they have recorded a selection of traditional May songs to coincide with May Day, releasing them digitally through Drew’s Thanet Tape Centre label. In 2024 these were compiled into a 2xLP release MAY and was released by Loves Devotee. 2025 sees the release of their new record The Tree of the Left Hand that was released in the spring by the Folklore Tapes.

With support from David Birchall