Out now: Everything Is Recorded – Solstice Equinox

Richard Russell’s collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded announce and release Solstice Equinox – a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at The Copper House, Russell’s West London studio. Solstice Equinox is the fourth Everything Is Recorded album and comes four months after the third, Temporary.

Each session took place on a solstice or equinox — the Summer and Winter Solstices, and the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes. Across these four days, a revolving cast of musicians, peers, and longtime collaborators gathered for fully improvised sessions. Words about the seasons were written on the studio walls; otherwise Russell gave the players no instructions. After the sessions, he edited and mixed the recordings into the four distinct selections of ten tracks each that collectively form Solstice Equinox. The lineup blends longtime collaborators with fresh voices, including Alabaster DePlume, Jah Wobble, Ibeyi, Samantha Morton, Laura Groves, Jack Peñate, Roses Gabor, Mary In The Junkyard, Georgia, Sampha, Florence Welch, Yazz Ahmed, CASISDEAD and more. Each session was uploaded to Bandcamp and SoundCloud as soon as it was completed.

The Solstice Equinox album further edits and compiles the four groups of ten tracks into one coherent album consisting of the forty songs, at a running time of one hour forty minutes. Solstice Equinox is available digitally, and on limited edition vinyl, which comes in a bespoke, screen-printed sleeve, hand-crafted at XL Recordings’ west London headquarters.

The Solstice Equinox sessions came towards the end of a prolific five-year period for Russell, capped by the release of Everything Is Recorded’s critically acclaimed third album Temporary in February 2025. The album features an extraordinary roster of collaborators including Sampha, Florence Welch, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, and many of the artists involved in Solstice Equinox.

In addition to his work as Everything Is Recorded, Russell recently collaborated with acclaimed actor, director, and singer-songwriter Samantha Morton as the duo SAM MORTON, releasing their critically praised debut album Daffodils & Dirt.. He also produced ‘Four Kinds of Horses’ from i/o, Peter Gabriel’s first UK No.1 album in over 30 years, and this old house, the debut EP from rising London trio Mary In The Junkyard. It was for these records, alongside previous lauded production work for the likes of Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, Gil Scott-Heron and Ibeyi, that Russell received the prodigious Inspiration Award at this year’s Music Producers Guild awards in London.

Listen / purchase Solstice Equinox here.
Listen / purchase Temporary here.