Songs Of Green Pheasant is the work of Duncan Sumpner, an artist / teacher from Oughtibridge in Sheffield. His self-titled debut album was released on FatCat in August 2005, and drew widespread praise. Fragile, yet coherent and utterly charming songs with a warm cloudy depth, sweet melodies and some gorgeous vocal harmonising, beautifully sung and played. In the following couple of years, Songs Of Green Pheasant had two more records on FatCat: Aerial Days (2006) and Gyllyng Street (2007). After a five year’s hiatus Sumpner and his project returned with Soft Wounds, via Rusted Rail, “micro-Independent record label” based in Galway, Ireland. In 2015 Songs Of Green Pheasant self-released two mini album: Horseflesh – Chapter 1, a short comic book dedicated to Vinni Reilly which also contained a 5-track CD of original songs, and Mullock and Moil, a nine-songs mini-album that accompanied a 24 page illustrated book. Until today the latest offering from Songs Of Green Pheasant was When The Weather Clears a new album which, after a tormented implementation process, was out, again via Rusted Rail on December 4th 2020 (and reprinted a couple of times since). Today Rusted Rail announced the release of a new double A-sided digital single by Songs of Green Pheasant: Have Patience/Street of Mirrors.

These two epic new songs pave the way for the 2025 release of the album Sings The Passing, another step forward in the musical evolution of Songs of Green Pheasant. “The ongoing musical project of Stockport-based Duncan Sumpner finds the ‘Pheasant inhabiting an ethereal space where foggy dream pop meets kitchen-sink prog”.

Have Patience​/​Street of Mirrors is out today, December 6th via Rusted Rail. The album, Sings The Passing, will follow in 2025.