Uncle Woody Sullender & Seamus Cater's first album When We Get to Meeting, a vinyl LP in an edition of 500 was released in February 2010 on dead ceo. The album is also available through
digital means.They started the duo in spring 2008 during a residency and co-production at Steim and DNK-Amsterdam.
Sullender (NYC) plays acoustic and electro-acoustic banjo while Cater (UK/Amsterdam) plays different kinds of harmonicas, usually re-tuned. It's two instruments with a lot of cultural baggage played by two musicians involved in experimental music where such cultural associations are not so common. This new / folk / minimal look into re-interpretations of instrumental and stylistic conventions sits in a place that at once embraces a post digital aesthetic whilst scanning back through 20th century music with instruments that haven't changed since the 1920's.
"When We Get to Meeting is an incomparable set, and however one chooses to classify the music of Sullender and Cater, it’s absolutely gorgeous and unique." Clifford Allen
"...the results of this duo are so phenomenally playful and full of depth and simple joy that it's hard not to love what they are doing. This is a refreshing take on the combination of folk and experimental musical modes and definitely deserves wider attention. 10/10" Charles Franklin
"Its one of those things which you have no idea what to make of, but you feel instinctively its great and perhaps therefore all the more a great record. Odd but great." Frans de Waard
Touring Europe in March 2010, see agenda page for details. LP is available here, MP3s here.